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Main page > Products > Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts - The weekly bulletin > Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts. Issue No (68) 756 Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts. Issue No (68) 756April 06 - April 12, 2009 Main tendencies of political weekVladimir Putin’s report to the State Duma became the key event last week providing the ground for different interpretations on the media field throughout the week. On the whole, it was quite a successful event for the PM because a special informational campaign was organized to ‘warm up’ the audience (the population rather than deputies) aimed at increasing the level of social optimism amid the outlined ‘stabilization in decline’. Vladimir Putin confirmed that despite the crisis he was not going to refuse the social and paternalistic model of state governance that was formed during his second presidential term, which meant redistribution of oil and gas revenues in the interests of wide strata of the population. It was also said that despite an actual sequester, the new budget would remain a budget for development, which is likely to demonstrate succession of the 2020 Strategy and the government’s anti-crisis plan. It should be pointed out that Dmitry Medvedev has more actively employed social rhetoric lately to probably broaden his public support. It is becoming more understandable that the image of liberal president without additional social features will not enable him to become a full-fledged national leader under the conditions of overall failure of the liberal idea and rather scanty liberal electorate. Yet, demonstrative social behavior of Russian authorities does not provide for the neutralization of protest sentiments among the population and the decrease in the number of protest actions that are becoming a usual background of the Russian political life. Last weekend there was another wave of such activities with different political forces being behind them. State authorities seem to have adapted themselves to the current situation and are able to react to the sharpest kinds of social protest (strikes, hunger strikes) ignoring all the rest. Such tactics of neutralizing hotbeds of discontent by financial inflows is justified under the current conditions but it may fail if the second, more serious and deeper phase of the crisis comes. Major events April 06, 2009 - April 12, 2009
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