Rebranding on the right

Rebranding on the right. Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is preparing to lead the “right business” and selects supporters for himself. What will be similar to the updated right and to whom Prokhorov went for support - the New Times found out

“The main structures of the party - the central apparatus, the political officer - will be replaced by 80%,” says Maxim Agarkov, a member of the Federal Political Council of the “right -handed”. “Prokhorov wants to attract large business, small and medium -sized entrepreneurs to the party.” Agarkov himself at the June Party Congress, where Mikhail Prokhorov’s candidacy should be approved, is going to pass a ticket - he does not agree with rebranding: “Businessmen are, of course, good ... They just don’t know how to talk with people.”
The source of The New Times, close to Prokhorov, confirmed that the party will be focused on business representatives: “Over the past few days, more than two thousand applications have received from those who wanted to come through the Blog of Prokhorov. About 10% - from entrepreneurs. They see in Prokhorov a man who has achieved a lot in business and understands the interests of entrepreneurs. ” According to the source, among the sympathetic there are a lot of youth and "wise women over 50."
Big Business Party
Member of the party’s political council Boris Nadezhdin told The New Times that Prokhorov and his team are negotiating with representatives of large business: “Names are not yet disclosed so as not to violate the negotiations. Businessmen are not necessarily invited to the party, some just to assist. I know that they want to call one major owner of the land near Moscow. ” Nadezhdin himself, according to him, is engaged in potential members of the party from the Moscow Region: “A huge number of applications come from entrepreneurs. I can’t even say how much. ” In an interview with other media, Nadezhdin said that members of Fair Russia are massively fleeing the party. But this information has not yet been confirmed.
From a source familiar with negotiations, it was possible to find out that Denis Sverdlov, CEO of Yota, Natalya Sindeeva, was invited by the founder of the Rain, the CEO of the company. Lured from EP Vadim Dymov - the founder of the Sausage Company "Dymov" and the owner of the Republic of Bookstore chain. According to the source, they have so far refused. The company "Dymov" said that the topic of "right -handed" was not commented, Yota answered in silence. Sindeeva said that “she is only a businessman”, making it clear that politics is not interested in her.
According to some reports, negotiations are underway with the co -owner of Yandex Arkady Vologer and the founder of Kaspersky Laboratory Evgeny Kaspersky. True, the New Times said in Yandex that “Volozh did not receive an offer to join the right business. The corporate policy of Yandex does not allow top management to participate in political activities. ” The New Times sent requests to Evgeny Kaspersky, but did not receive answers.
According to Prokhorov, the party should not be financed "from one bag." So the billionaire has already called the Forbes neighbor and a Polyus gold partner and the IFC bank Suleiman Kerimov. However, Kerimov, who was pretty spent in 2010 on the purchase of shares in Uralkalia and Sylvinitis, can help not so much money as a political resource - like a senator. He had not yet given an answer. The New Times suggested that Prokhorov could attract other business partners - Alexander Abramov and Viktor Vekselberg. The representative of Vekselberg Andrei Storch replied that "there are no such negotiations with the boss."
According to The New Times, two former heads of the presidential administration Alexander Voloshin and Valentin Yumashev actively worked on the appearance of the future party. Their involvement in the project, according to the information of The New Times, caused the displeasure of Vladimir Putin, so after the first meeting with him, which took place in early May, Mikhail Prokhorov informed his colleagues that his party career, apparently, would end, not starting. However, in the next two weeks, as the Popular Front was formed, Putin changed his attitude to the rebranding of the “right -wing business” and Prokhorov headed the party, although Voloshin and Yumashev, according to The New Times, were removed from further work on the project.
Faces on the cover
According to the famous businessman Alexander Lebedev, not only business, but also some part of the creative intelligentsia, as well as people who actively perform on the Internet, could be of interest. The New Times interviewed a number of famous people who could be interesting to the parties, and found out that many were not called, some have already refused, and someone is thinking about whether to come.
According to The New Times, NTV journalist Anton Krasovsky answered a refusal. But when asked about this, Krasovsky quite sharply answered that neither Prokhorov nor his representatives were associated with him. The source of The New Times says Krasovsky received an offer from a representative of the Kremlin administration. The possible party “icons of the style” could be TV presenter Tina Kandelaki and Nikolai Uskov - the editor -in -chief of the GQ men's magazine. The representative of Kandelaki replied that this topic was not commented. Nikolai Uskov, who had a positive responding to the new project of the party in his LiveJournal, said that he had not yet been invited, but he would have thought about such a proposal. Rustem Adagamov, better known under the nickname Drugoi, could probably act as an “active Internet”, probably, “blogger No. 1”. The conversation was short. “How would you react to the proposal to join the“ Just business ”? - "No way".
A source close to the party claims that Chulpan Khamatov was invited to the party. The candidacy of Irina Yasina was considered. Yasina to the question The New Times replied that she did not want to discuss this topic. The answer from Chulpan Khamatova did not come at the time of signing the number. But it suddenly turned out that Tatyana Lazareva, a famous actress and TV presenter, received an offer to join the “Just business”. “I have not yet made a decision,” she said.
Semass error
Boris Nemtsov, ex-leader of the Party of the ATP, in 2008, which poured into the “right-handed”, told The New Times that he was aware of the future changes in the party: “The composition will seriously change. Much depends on how her backbone will be. If Prokhorov gains pops - artists of the stage, athletes who have nothing to do with politics, it will be clear to everyone: the puppet, Prochrevskaya party. And she will not collect the voices of the opposition. And entrepreneurs will not have a desire to vote for this. But if Prokhorov calls, for example, Shevchuk, Bykov, Parfenov - this will be evidence that he has his own, independent position. ”
Leonid Parfenov to the question of whether he will go into a “right -handed thing” categorically: “Politics and journalism are mutually exclusive things. And I'm not going to change the profession. ”
And Dmitry Bykov answered merrily: “They will not call! After all, I expressed my attitude to this project and to Prokhorov in one of the issues of the “Poet Citizen” * * The joint project of Dmitry Bykov and actor Mikhail Efremov, went out on the Rain television channel, but after the censorship, I moved to the “Echo of Moscow” .. We are talking about the poem by Bykov “Uncle Stepa-Miliarder”, from which it follows that the “right business” follows ” Prokhorova asked for "the most important giant." It ends in the following words: “All without noise and without dust/ for a worthy lava/ entered this party/ with Uncle Stepa at the head./ And she easily and honestly,/ without special ideas,/ took second place/ by the number of B.Deus.” After Mikhail Efremov read this at the celebration of the Day of the Entrepreneurs, Mikhail Prokhorov noted that there was a serious semantic error in the end: according to the indicated indicator, he is always in the first place.