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Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts. Issue No (62) 750

Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts. Issue No (62) 750

February 23 - March 01, 2009

Main tendencies of political week

Administrative conflicts and public politics stirred up by the crisis were balanced last week. President Dmitry Medvedev further developed the idea of Supreme Arbitration Court chair Anton Ivanov about the necessity to modernize Russian laws. It seems the prosecutor general’s office will have a considerable role in this project – it is carrying out anti-corruption examination of bills and has already pointed out that at least 10,000 of them contain corruption motives. Thus, the prospects of cardinal modernization of Russian laws (however, on the municipal level mainly) are shaping clearer. It should be noted that the president supported the initiatives of Yury Chaika’s administrative rival, investigation committee head Alexander Bastrykin, pointing to the necessity to work with such an important institution as the jury.

Last week the head of state introduced two last bills out of the so-called 10 planks voiced in his 2008 Address. Thus, his plans to partially liberalize the Russian political system are acquiring a more and more complete shape despite the criticism by some opposition members, who believe this is imitation. These processes are taking place amid another wave of rumors about soon breakup of the ruling tandem and dismissal of Vladimir Putin. Such rumors are likely to be due to the anniversary of Dmitry Medvedev’s election, which will gradually turn into the anniversary of his inauguration, which will provide ground for speculations about the tandem’s collapse in the next 2.5 months at least.

On the administrative level there was complete confusion over military reforms. According to the latest data, the airborne troops will be reduced, which contradicts the sense of the reforms aimed at increasing the number of constant combat readiness units. Confidence of the defense ministry’s top officials that the nuclear shield is enough to withstand modern military threats also causes doubts.

Major events February 23, 2009 - March 01, 2009

Event Winning side Defeated side Development Outlooks

Dmitry Medvedev attends a meeting of the board of the prosecutor general’s office

Dmitry Medvedev, Yury Chaika, Alexander Bastrykin

 

Ratio of authority of investigation committee and prosecutor general’s office will remain unchanged on the whole

Vladimir Putin meets with United Russia’s top figures

Vladimir Putin

 

PM will become less optimistic in evaluating prospects of overcoming the crisis

Vladimir Putin says settling social problems of the society is a priority amid the crisis

Vladimir Putin

 

Authorities will be implementing the medium-term (2-3 years) anti-crisis strategy

Vyacheslav Volodin is elected head of the state construction department at MSU

 

 

This post may become an alternate airfield for Volodin in case of dismissal

Deputy PM Sergey Ivanov says Russia will completely renew its strategic nuclear forces by 2020

 

 

The crisis will negatively influence the current insufficient modernization of the forces

Information is posted that the airborne forces will be reduced as a result of military reforms

 

Anatoly Serdyukov

This will decrease the Russian armed forces’ combat capacity and provoke additional discontent among officers

Dmitry Medvedev submits bills on parties that collect 5% to 7% of the vote and on reducing the number of signatures necessary to participate in elections, to State Duma

Dmitry Medvedev

 

The bills will be passed without considerable changes in the shortest time possible

Lawyer Igor Trunov is elected head of the Moscow branch of Pravoe Delo

 

 

Trunov is unlikely to be a competent manager

 

Plenum of the Central Committee of the communist party

Gennady Zyuganov

 

Zyuganov will continue mopping up the area around him

Regulations on Rosalcohol are approved

Rosalcohol

Agriculture and finance ministries, federal tax and tariff services

Rosalcohol will not face serious resistance in gaining control over the market

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