A woman at the wheel means troubles ahead!

Alyona Gubanova, 42, candidate to enter the "United Russia" pro-Kremlin party, becomes the major of Astrakhan according to the results of the elections held within the first meeting of a recently re-elected City Duma of Astrakhan. As reported by the local news agencies, her candidature was supported by 28 out of 35 city deputies, who took part in the meeting. As of now Alyona Gubanova is the chief of the state publication and printing enterprise "Volga" and she also held the position of the press office chief of the ex-Governor of the Astrakhan Region Anatoly Guzhvin earlier. The elections to the City Duma of Astrakhan were held on the 13th of September this year and for the first time those elections used a mixed scheme: 36 candidates entered the Duma, among them 18 single mandate deputies and 18 different Russian parties nominees. Notwithstanding with the fact that only 18% of the Astrakhan city population took part in the elections, the parties of "United Russia", Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and Liberal Democratic Party of Russia qialified to enter the City Duma

As you remember the ex-major of the City of Astrakhan Michail Stolyarov was removed from office for taking bribes of a large scale, and was fined 500 mln. RUR and sentenced to 9 years in prison.

Meanwhile the economic situation in the city of Astrakhan remains far from ideal. The city is not developing at a pace desired by its population, which slowly moves around the level of 515 thousands of inhabitants for the last 25 years. The local wages level are at the lowest level in Russia. So, there are doubts among people that a woman can birng hope for prosperity to Astrakhan. The people of this southern provincial city recite a proverb written in the title of this article. And proverbs are a concentrated folk wisdom.

We'll see...