The presidential administration has proposed placing restrictions on governors' use of micro-blogging website Twitter, a news report said Wednesday.
Unnamed Kremlin sources told Izvestia that governors would soon be told to only write "proper" messages on Twitter in order to avoid scandals and misunderstandings.
If that doesn't work, the presidential administration could ban governors from using Twitter altogether, the sources said.
"They should be showing results not on Twitter but through their actions," one of the sources said.
The move to control regional heads' online habits comes on the back of a number of Twitter scandals involving senior government politicians.
Among the most prominent gaffes, Krasnodar region Governor Alexander Tkachyov in February responded to a highly qualified hospital employee's complaints about his miserly salary by telling him "not to whine and go look for a more highly paid job."
Thirty-three Russian governors currently have Twitter accounts, Izvestia said, citing Kirov region Governor Nikita Belykh, St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko and Tkachyov as the governors with the greatest number of Twitter followers.
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