Russian governor delivers rare blunt warning to Putin on soaring housing prices and plunging construction rates

Russian governor delivers rare blunt warning to Putin on soaring housing prices and plunging construction rates

Vladimir Putin’s July 28 meeting with Stavropol Governor Vladimir Vladimirov was unusually negative, with the latter warning that his region faces plummeting new construction rates and skyrocketing rent prices. Vladimirov also described an “acute shortage” of medical personnel. The governor’s frank assessment represented a departure from the typically upbeat reports delivered to the president in public meetings, journalists at Agentstvo noted. V…