Editing President (government title) (section)

=====Russia=====
Governors of [[Russian republics|ethnic republics]] in the [[Russian Federation]] used to have the title of President, occasionally alongside other, secondary titles such as ''Chairman of the Government'' (also used by [[Prime Minister of Russia]]). This likely reflects the origin of Russian republics as homelands for various ethnic groups: while all [[federal subjects of Russia]] are currently ''[[de jure]]'' [[Symmetric federalism|equal]], their predecessors, the [[Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics of the Soviet Union|ASSR]]s, used to [[asymmetric federalism|enjoy more privileges]] than the ordinary krais and oblasts of the [[RSFSR]] (such as greater representation in the [[Soviet of Nationalities]]). Thus, the ASSRs and their eventual successors would have more in common with [[nation-state]]s than with ordinary administrative divisions, at least in spirit, and would choose titles accordingly.

Over the course of the 2010s the presidents of Russian republics would progressively change their title to that of [[Head]] ({{langx|ru|глава}}), a proposition suggested by the [[president of Chechnya]] [[Ramzan Kadyrov]] and later made law by the [[Parliament of Russia]] and President [[Dmitriy Medvedev]] in 2010. Despite this, however, presidents of [[Tatarstan]] resisted the move, before 2023, where it was switched to the Head or [[Head of Tatarstan|Rais]], the latter of which could be [[Rais|translated from Tatar as "President"]].