member_of_political_party oleg kozhemyako
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Regardless of the physical geography , in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League of Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945 , a resident of a country is subject to the ___MASK96___ exercise of legal jurisdiction . ___MASK93___ is the ruling political party of the Russian Federation . ___MASK93___ is the largest party in Russia ; it holds 343 ( or 76 . 22 %) of the 450 seats in the State Duma . Russia ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth of the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016 . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European Russia . Russia ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . Amur Oblast is a federal subject of Russia ( an oblast ), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers in the Russian Far East . The administrative center of the oblast , the city of Blagoveshchensk , is one of the oldest settlements in the Russian Far East , founded in 1856 . It is a traditional center of trade and gold mining . The territory is accessed by two railways : the Trans - Siberian Railway and the Baikal  Amur Mainline . As of the 2010 Census , the oblast ' s population was 830 , 103 . Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin ( born 7 October 1952 ) is a Russian politician who is the current President of the Russian Federation , holding the office since 7 May 2012 . He was Prime Minister from 1999 to 2000 , President from 2000 to 2008 , and again Prime Minister from 2008 to 2012 . During his second term as Prime Minister , he was the Chairman of the ___MASK93___ Party , the ruling party . Oleg Nikolayevich Kozhemyako ( Russian :          ) , born 17 March 1962 , is the Acting Governor of Sakhalin Oblast , Russia . President Vladimir Putin appointed him to the position on March 25 , 2015 to replace former Governor Alexander Khoroshavin who was arrested and charged with accepting bribes . Previously , Kozhemyako served two terms as Governor of Amur Oblast and one term as Governor of Koryak Autonomous Okrug . Kozhemyako was elected as the Governor of Koryak Autonomous Okrug on April 15 , 2005 , and held it until the okrug merged with Kamchatka Oblast on June 30 , 2007 . On October 16 , 2008 , President Dmitry Medvedev appointed him to the Amur governorship to replace Nikolai Kolesov . On October 14 , 2012 , after direct elections of governors were restored , Kozhemyako run for re - election . He was re - elected , collecting over 76 % of the votes . Sakhalin Oblast is a federal subject of Russia ( an oblast ) comprising the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in Russia ' s far east . The oblast has an area of . Its administrative center and the largest city is Yuzhno - Sakhalinsk . Population : 497 , 973 ( 2010 Census ). Besides people from other parts of the former Soviet ___MASK60___ and the Korean Peninsula , the oblast is home to Nivkhs and Ainu , with the latter having lost their language in Sakhalin recently . Sakhalin is rich in natural gas and oil , and is Russia ' s second wealthiest federal subject . The Russian Far East is the Russian part of the Far East , i . e . the extreme east parts of Russia , between Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia and the Pacific Ocean . The Far Eastern Federal District , which covers this area , borders with the Siberian Federal District to the west . The Far Eastern Federal District has land borders with the People ' s ___MASK46___ of China and North Korea to the south west and maritime borders with Japan and the American state of Alaska . Although traditionally considered part of Siberia , the Russian Far East is categorized separately from Siberia in Russian regional schemes ( and previously during the Soviet era when it was called the Soviet Far East ). An oblast is a type of administrative division of Belarus , Bulgaria , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Russia , Ukraine , and the now - defunct Soviet ___MASK60___ and Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes . The term is analogous to " state " or " province ".