Kirov Region Governor Nikita Belykh said he had to send his son to a boarding school in Britain because of the demands of his official position.
"When I go out to work, he is still asleep, and when I get back, he is already asleep," Belykh wrote in his Livejournal blog, referring to his 7-year-old son, Yury.
"Neither I nor my wife can spend as much time with Yury as we should at his age," he added.
Belykh, a former leader of the Union of Right Forces, was appointed governor by President Dmitry Medvedev in December 2008.
Yury went to a school in Kirov last year, but Belykh said another factor in the decision was that he wanted Yury to grow up a normal boy, something he said could not happen in a Russian school because he would have a "special status" there as governor's son.
Belykh also said there were simply "no decent boarding schools in Russia that would ensure a child's all-round education and development".
RIA Novosti
