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Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts. Issue No (68) 756

Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts. Issue No (68) 756

April 06 - April 12, 2009

Main tendencies of political week

Vladimir 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

Event Winning sideh Defeated side Development Outlooks

Vladimir Putin reports to State Duma

Vladimir Putin

 

Authorities will keep highlighting social character of state policies

Dmitry Medvedev meets with United Russia leadership

Dmitry Medvedev

 

Despite forecasts, Dmitry Medvedev won’t join any party in the near future

Cabinet discusses an anti-crisis strategy

 

 

The strategy’s approval does not mean it won’t be amended

Constitutional Court chair Valery Zorkin delivers speech at Senate Debates

Valery Zorkin

 

CC head is unlikely to repeat theses about desirability of authoritarian instruments of governing Russia under crisis

Valery Okulov is appointed deputy transportation minister

 

Valery Okulov

Contrary to forecasts, transportation minister Igor Levitin is to stay at his post and Okulov may become federal air transportation agency head in the future

Vladimir Krupkin is appointed chief of the Federal Licensing Center

Sergey Sobyanin, Viktor Basargin

 

The Urals team will continue staff and administration expansion in the regional development ministry and affiliated bodies

Ex-director of the agriculture ministry’s department for scientific and technical policies is appointed Rosagroleasing general director

Elena Skrynnik

 

The company will remain under actual control of the agriculture minister

Rostekhnadzor chief Nikolay Kutyin says the service will dismiss 2/3 of its managers by the year end

Nikolay Kutyin

 

These measures are likely to be a short-lived campaign but will be positively assessed by top authorities

Federation Council chair Sergey Mironov says Vladimir Putin can well run for president in 2012

Vladimir Putin, Sergey Mironov

 

 

Authorities will keep making information leakages through the official

Information is published about complicity of deputy prosecutor general for Far Eastern Federal District Yury Gulyagin in corruption schemes

Alexander Bastrykin

Yury Chaika

Yury Chaika’s positions in confrontation against Alexander Bastrykin will weaken

Volume: 13 pages

 


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