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Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts - The weekly bulletin
Weekly Political Analysis
The study traces and analyzes policies of the dominating federal power bodies: the president and his administration, the Cabinet of Minister, Federal Assembly, law enforcement and national defense groups, and Security Council, looks into the activities of federal parties, movements, trade unions, as well as the “fourth power” – mass media.
The subject of our research is the change in the staff and ideology of the major power centers of Russia, dynamic of relations between various powerhouses inside them. Attention is drawn to public as well as to hidden side of political processes, the activities of the dominating power clans, their strategic interests and tactical plans.
Our goal is to unravel the cobwebs of competition between parties and individual players, sifting out “informational noise” and obvious disinformation, sum up the main political events of the week, reckon up its results and predict the contour of further developments.
The papers focus on
- propaganda and information support for political campaigns of the Kremlin and its rivals;
- resources and means of interaction that the sides have available;
- their true interests, goals, and directives;
- methods of competition typical for them.
Revealing true mechanisms of decision-making at the top and obscure consequences of the events that are happening, we try to give our readers realistic outline of Russian politics of today and prepare you for the battles of tomorrow.
 | Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts. Issue No (5) 798January 25 - 31, 2010Last week’s key informational lines were related to United Russia. Confirmation of UR’s status of the ruling party by the state leadership at a State Council meeting may result in new informational attacks on it. The campaign around the bill on parliamentary control is also indicative; the presidential administration allegedly retreated on this issue. |
| Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts. Issue No (4) 797January 18 - 24, 2010A meeting of the State Council devoted to issues of the political system improvement was the central domestic policy event last week. In his speech Dmitry Medvedev spoke in favor of retaining the system’s fundamentals. He declared that Russia’s political system was not good in all aspects but it coped with its objectives. |
| Politics in Russia: power, lobby, conflicts. Issue No (1-3) 794-796December 28, 2009 - January 17, 2010The two festive weeks and the first post-festive one were characterized by a low political activity due to understandable reasons. Dmitry Medvedev’s meeting with FNPR head Mikhail Shmakov and its content demonstrate that state authorities are still going to focus on social policies. At the same time, Vladimir Putin’s meeting with Alexander Shokhin and allowing RSPP representatives to be present at government meetings balance state authorities’ social trend and demonstrate that they are ready to support large businesses too. Social and economic issues will occupy the main place in the agenda of the State Duma’s spring session that opened last week. |
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