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Main page > Products > Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts - The weekly bulletin > Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts. Issue No (49) 790 Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts. Issue No (49) 790November 30 - December 06, 2009 Main tendencies of political weekVladimir Putin’s live call-in session that enabled the PM to continue a dialogue between state authorities and the population became the central event last week. This feedback channel is one of the most popular. Stability of this format (it has existed for almost 10 years) and the date of the event were aimed at highlighting permanence and succession of the current authorities compared to the previous period. Despite many concrete problems discussed, in his conversation with people Vladimir Putin also touched upon general issues of the country’s social and political development. Firstly, he singled out the success of authorities in maintaining positive sentiments among the population, which has quite real consequences. In particular, due to the collapse of positive expectations following the 1998 crisis the birth rate dropped sharply then, while this time demographic parameters even went up slightly. Secondly, the premier again confirmed that his visit to Pikalevo was not a precedent but a lesson of anti-crisis management for governments of all levels. It is also symbolic that live questions were asked from problem regions, which substantially neutralized accusations by the opposition claiming on the eve of the event that state authorities wanted to varnish the reality. Finally, responding to some question the premier focused on state authorities’ discipline and warned the bureaucracy against sabotaging implementation of decisions made. The mass media covered the consequences of a terrorist attack at Nevsky Express. This campaign developed in two main directions. According to the first one, “state authorities are lying” and that was not a terrorist attack. According to the other, state authorities are helpless and the country is facing a collapse (at first infrastructural and then a state and political one). Nevertheless, the terrorist attack promoted consolidation of the population around authorities. In particular, the rating of confidence in the president and the premier jumped 10% and Dmitry Medvedev’s presidential rating advanced 5%. Debates about peculiarities of Russian Conservatism started. UR tried to correct its mistake made during preparations for its latest congress (poorly finalized doctrine) and to neutralize a wave of criticism it was subjected to after the party declared Russian Conservatism would be its ideology, which allegedly was incompatible with modernization objectives. Presenting a new project intellectuals and functionaries focused on positive western practices, while such experience can be found also in oriental countries and in the domestic history. Major events November 30 - December 06, 2009
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