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Main page > Products > Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts - The weekly bulletin > Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts. Issue No (70) 758 Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts. Issue No (70) 758April 20 - April 26, 2009 Main tendencies of political weekSpeculations about public policy events continued last week. This in particular concerned parole for YUKOS ex-officer Svetlana Bakhmina. Commentators divided into several groups in terms of assessing the reason for and President Dmitry Medvedev’s role in this event. It is noteworthy that the majority of those belonging to the liberal camp did not express any special optimism regarding the prospects of transformation of Russia’s political system pointing to causality of the court’s decision on Bakhmina. The president himself gave cause for such pessimism in an interview with NTV channel made shortly before the YUKOS ex-officer’s release; in the interview the president stressed undesirability of replacing concrete steps aimed at fighting the crisis with political slogans. On this background there was fierce inside-elite struggle for declining resources. Last week it became finally clear that state corporations were under attack as the richest companies in terms of resources. So far, two of them were assaulted – the agency for insuring savings deposits and the fund for utilities reforms – but there are others ‘money bags’ in line. It is noteworthy that state corporations realize such dangers and keenly react to the criticism cutting bonuses to managers and boasting of their managerial skills. Last week there was a turning point in the process of mopping up the defense ministry of the so-called representatives of generals’ Fronde. Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) chief Valentin Korabelnikov retired, which means the ministry is fully mopped up and the Fronda lost its last potential leader. Now there is a definite course at minimizing social expenses and getting rid of the ministry’s ‘ballast’ that may include many people. Major events April 20, 2009 - April 26, 2009
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