sentence2: Indeed, the resigned governors share one trait – Putin's party, United Russia, won less than 40% of the vote in these regions last December . In some ways this scenario is worse. If the “resignations” are in fact punishments for electoral loss or refusal to falsify elections, the Kremlin is definitely consolidating power, and not devolving it.
sentence1: كما أخبر المحلل والخبير السياسي جليب بايلوفسكي موقع بيرمي، بمجرد أن يثبت باسارجين نفسه، "سيترأس المنطقة، سواء رغبت بيرم في ذلك أم لا.