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Main page > Products > Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts - The weekly bulletin > Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts. Issue No (45) 733 Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts. Issue No (45) 733October 27 - November 2, 2008 Main tendencies of political weekAnnouncement of the exact date of Dmitry Medvedev’s address to the nation made mass media speculate on its content. The document is likely to stir up discussions about the ways of development of Russia’s political system even if it does not contain such a section. State authorities are likely to pursue the course of depoliticizing political development, which means refusal to follow abstract theoretical schemes in the liberalization-authoritarianism dichotomy. Considering the changing agenda and dilapidation of old ideological schemes, the course will be intended to make political structures pragmatic. It is likely to be aimed at ensuring moderate mobilization with the system building characteristics not resembling similar experience of the Stalin period. Another urgent problem that came to the surface again last week is the mechanism of forming the staff reserve. Renewal of governing elite is becoming a more and more pressing issue considering growing problems in the economy. Deputy PM Sergey Sobyanin at his meeting with the president briefly described the plan of forming the staff pool focusing on the transparency of selection mechanisms. However, it is not yet clear what positions will be replaced with the reserve representatives – top or second and third tier or technical. There is also a fundamental hindrance on the way to this reform – unwillingness of the bureaucracy to get renewed. At the same time the authorities in the near future will have to consider the bureaucracy’s opinion who are becoming their almost the only support. Inside-elite struggle on the eve of the address again became secondary. There were attempts to fill in the informational vacuum in the mass media by predictions of upcoming social catastrophes that allegedly should follow mass layoff. So far such catastrophes exist in the imagination of journalists and experts: dismissed financial officers find jobs in other sectors while in regions the real sector enterprises resort to the practice of paid leaves managing it without layoff. Major events October 27 - November 2, 2008
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