While the drones are attacking the Kremlin, and Prigozhin is fighting with Shoigu, the President of the Russian Federation seemed to take a self -setting. What is he waiting for and what risks are creating for him? Answers Tatyana Stanaya (Carnegie Politika) In recent months, Vladimir Putin has been so rarely expressed on strategic issues that it may seem that the future has ceased to worry the President of Russia.

The political scientist Tatyana Politika reasoned. Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Scanpix / Leta The State Duma adopted amendments to the law “On Military Duties and Military Service”, revolutionaryly changing legal relations of citizens and the state.

Putin created new federal coordination bodies, headed by Mishustin and Sobyanin. What will this lead to? Analysis from Tatiana Stanovaya Mikhail Mishustin, Vladimir Putin, and Sergey Sobyanin. Photo: EPA The original read was first featured in the biweekly bulletin by R.Politik . Follow this link to view the full bulletin. Novaya-Europe thanks its colleagues for allowing us to publish the part of this bulletin on our website with only minor reductions.

Political scientist Tatyana Stanovaya (carnegie.ru) explains the new law on public power Emin Jafarov / Kommersant In Russia, they adopted a law that has more serious changes than the amendments to the Constitution adopted a year and a half ago.

Secretary of the Council of Ministers Nikolai Patrushev and President Vladimir Putin Kremlin Pool / Global Look Press The point of view is widespread that a significant part of the events of the last year-tightening laws, increasing pressure on the Internet company, blocking, not to mention the landing of Navalny and the complete defeat of the non-systemic opposition-are directly related to the Duma elections.

In 2015, preparing the country for the next Duma elections, the then main curator of the domestic political bloc in the presidential administration Vyacheslav Volodin called the three main priorities of the elected campaign: legitimacy, openness, competitiveness. The Kremlin urged not to “break competitors about the knee” and in every possible way encouraged the transactions of the party in power with the system opposition.

Answers Tatyana Stanaya (carnegie.ru) Scanpix / Leta Vladimir Putin spent another straight line that lasted almost 4 hours. She was remembered by numerous technical problems, the president’s attempts to talk with videos, as well as his numerous medical councils. But political scientist Tatyana Stanovaya in an article for the Moscow Center of Carnegie notes that the president is increasingly given the role of a wizard who lives the problems of citizens live.

Says political scientist Tatyana Stanovaya (carnegie.ru) Evgeny Feldman Over the year, which has passed from the adoption of amendments to the Constitution, the Russian political regime was radically transformed. One of its main new properties is a weak coordination of actions between his key elements, writes Tatyana Stanva in an article for the Moscow Center of Carnegie.

Answers Tatyana Stanaya: carnegie.ru Evgeny Lonely / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta To combat Moscow protests, the country's leadership, obviously, chose power methods. Vladimir Putin by will or captivity forms a request for suppression of discontent, and then different parts of the system begin to compete with each other for who will more convincingly show the president, how effectively they cope with the problem.

After the Saturday protest, the Russian authorities, both in Moscow and at the federal level, took an even more stringent position in relation to the opposition than expected. The leaders of the opposition were arrested, the TFR started a criminal case of riots (three more cases - about violence against police officers), Sergei Sobyanin acts with the full support of the security forces and condemns the protesters for the same “riots”.

Participants in a rally of garbage against garbage from the Moscow region into the territory of the Arkhangelsk region. Photo: Alexey Lipnitsky / TASS A separate politically interesting intrigue in Russia is how the presidential administration is looking for ways to prevent and control protests in the field.

Tatyana Stanovaya about the criminal case of Mikhail Abyzov: carnegie.ru Sergey Mamontov / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta Mikhail Abyzov in the Basmanny Court of Moscow, March 27, 2019 Criminal prosecution for economic crimes becomes chaotic in Russia, and political motives in such cases are acquired by a secondary character. About this in the article for the Moscow Center of Carnegie writes political scientist Tatyana Stanovaya.

Answers Tatyana Stanaya: carnegie.ru Mikhail Klimentyev / TASS / Vida Press Immediately after the resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev from the post of President of Kazakhstan, they began to discuss that this could become a model for the departure of Vladimir Putin. But political scientist Tatyana Stanovaya in an article for the Moscow Center of Carnegie explains that although many associate two presidents, Putin himself is unlikely to do this.

Five years have passed since the annexation of the Crimea, and observers have been analyzing in detail how Russian society has changed, how the postcrypical mobilization transformed, the ratings fell, how the sanctions influenced the Russian economy, and foreign policy was transformed qualitatively. The country really became different.

— explains Tatyana Stanovaya Almost a week has passed since the arrest of Michael Calvey and his partners in Baring Vostok , but still the real meaning of what is happening and the reasons for such a harsh attack by security forces on American investors remain unclear. Vladimir Putin, who actually supported the actions of the FSB, also remained silent for a relatively long time.