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Main page > Products > Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts - The weekly bulletin > Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts. Issue No (47) 788 Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts. Issue No (47) 788November 16 - 22, 2009 Main tendencies of political weekA congress of United Russia with speeches delivered by the president and the premier became a central event last week. On one side, the PM’s report was political; on the other side it was quite concrete and could be viewed as detailed elaboration of the president’s state of the nation address. On the eve of the congress there was an active media campaign aimed at demonstrating that UR did not want to embed itself in the modernization agenda and wanted to freeze presidential initiatives staking on the ideology of conservatism. However, the PM’s report showed it was not so and conservatism was rather a way of modernization, not a method to preserve the status quo. Having suffered the first wave of disappointment with the address, liberals launched a massive campaign of interpreting this document to their advantage. An article by American political expert Nikolay Zlobin can be viewed as the campaign’s quintessence; in fact quite many texts with similar theses were posted, which can be considered a tendency. The main idea is that even such an indecisive president is better than a conservative one, and it is necessary to try to impose the agenda on state authorities through him, i.e. in fact it is suggested to manipulate the head of state. The intensity of the game aimed at splitting the tandem, which reached its peak on the eve of the address’s promulgation, somewhat decreased but the campaign did not curtail. It was slowly moving with some local hits of activity last week. The most noticeable wave was about the reasons of presidential adviser Mikhail Lesin’s resignation. A gossip was immediately disseminated, according to which the resignation was the result of the fact that Video International associated with Lesin was allegedly participating in Vladimir Putin’s “advertising” campaign aimed at bringing the latter to the presidential post in 2012. There have been several forms of struggle for principles of modernization lately: the media has been considering foreign samples acceptable for Russia. Liberals are trying to impose the Irish scenario instead of the discredited American one; their opponents, who promoted the Chinese case, are now turning their attention to the Singaporean model. In the context of this polemics the president’s statement about the intention to take into consideration the Singaporean variant when implementing modernization is very indicative. Major events November 16 - 22, 2009
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