Back to the future: what happened 20 years ago

Seven candidates for the president of the country are signed, a Congress of ATP is being held, Rogozin curses with Glazyev, the report “On the Treat of Putinism” is published - and other main news of this week on Polit.ru 20 years ago.

January 22, 2004 - "Independent Gazeta": the letter "On the threat of Putinism"

“Independent Gazeta” today publishes a letter from the co-founders of the 2008: Free choice of Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Kara-Murza (included by the Ministry of Justice on the list of foreign agents on April 22, 2022-approx. Polit.ru). The letter is addressed to the supporters of President Putin - to those who are going to vote on March 14 for him. According to the authors of the letter, now the authorities without any efforts have ensured the appearance of socio-economic well-being due to high oil prices, foreign policy calm and the framework of a market economy built during the years of Yeltsin. However, the basis of the current regime is an oil factor and censorship. A new socio-political formation appeared in the country-Putinism, the letter says. Its formula: one -party system, censorship, puppet parliament, the cessation of independent justice, the strict centralization of power and finance, the hypertrophied role of special services and bureaucracy, including in relation to business.

The authors of the letter identify five threats of Putinism. The first threat is the barracks banditry and the collapse of the armed forces. Every year, 20 thousand Russian boys suffer from "grandfature", and a whole battalion perishes from the hazardous relations in the army. At the same time, the topic of combat readiness of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was turned into a taboo. The second threat is a beggarly old age for 70 million working Russians. The state pension “accumulated” by citizens can simply evaporate if, for example, oil prices fall. The third threat is a rampant crime. The fourth is the persecution of entrepreneurs. Upon charges against the Prosecutor General of Yukos shareholders can be put another 15 million Russian businessmen, the letter said. And, finally, the fifth threat is the impoverishment of the Russian province and the collapse of the communal infrastructure of cities. Under Yeltsin, the authors of the letter say, 50% of the tax fees remained in the regions, and today the federal center takes 65% of the income from the province.

The authors of the letter have no doubt that Putin will win in the presidential election. However, they say, the president’s activity gives reason to believe that in his hands the 80 percent mandate from voters will mean card-blanche, including to arbitrariness.

January 23, 2004 - Putin collected 7 million signatures, and hieroglyphs will not be accepted

Representatives of the initiative group of candidate Vladimir Putin yesterday said that more than 7 million signatures were collected in his support, ITAR-TASS reports. The head of the Central Election Commission of Veshnyakov said that Putin’s signatures can be submitted to the Central Election Commission on January 23. On January 27, signatures of the speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov are expected. Recall that yesterday Irina Khakamada headquarters announced that 2,900 thousand signatures were collected in her support. Veshnyakov also stated that the violations will be strictly applied if “not signatures, but hieroglyphs and drawn autographs”. True, what is a drawn autograph is incomprehensible.

January 24, 2004 - Dmitry Rogozin will protect the "homeland" from "anti -Putin forces"

The co -chair of the High Council of the Motherland Dmitry Rogozin wants to discuss the sharp statement of Sergei Glazyev at a meeting of the Council on Monday, Interfax reports. “I do not want to participate in the squabble with Glazyev, but I won’t give the Rodina faction to the Rodina faction,” Rogozin said. According to him, the political and moral side of the current statement by Glazyev on January 26 will be discussed by the Supreme Council of the Rodina Bloc.

Today, Sergei Glazyev distributed a statement in which he actually accused Rogozin of lies: according to Glazyev, the decision on his self -nomination was supported by the block, while Rogozin stated that Blok had nothing to do with Glazyv’s nomination and would not support him.

Future: Dmitry Rogozin will lead Roscosmos (2018-2022). In September 2023, he will become a senator from the Zaporizhzhya region. Sergey Glazyev will be the Secretary General of the EU, as an adviser to the president, from October 2019 - a member of the collegium (minister) for the integration and macroeconomics of the Eurasian Economic Commission.

January 25, 2004 - Skinheads again defeated the Tsaritsynsky market

In Moscow, a group of teenagers arranged a pogrom in the Tsaritsyn market. As the acting Kirill Mazurin, head of the information and public relations department of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the incident occurred at about 16:00 Moscow time. About 15 teenagers burst into the market territory and began to smash shopping tents. The police arrived in the police detained six pogroms who were delivered to Orekhovo-Borisovsky Internal Affairs Directorate. The rest disappeared.

The individuals of the detainees are established. The management did not exclude that these are skinheads, reports RBC .

This is not the first pogrom, arranged by adolescents of an extremist nationalist sense in the market in Tsaritsyno. In October 2002, three people were killed in a mass fight: Tajik, Armenian and Indian.

January 26, 2004 - Boris Nadezhdin: many of the ATP are waiting for proposals for work in the government

To the questions of the Polit.ru correspondent about the results of the congress of the Union of Right Forces and the member of the Political Council of the ATP, former State Duma deputy Boris Nadezhdin, answered the directions of further work of the party.

Like Boris Nemtsov, Nadezhdin considers the main result of the congress the preservation of the party. “Contrary to rumors and forecasts, we did not split, did not die and showed that the ATP is a completely combat -ready and living party,” said Boris Nadezhdin. The main evidence that the party retains its unity was the support of Irina Khakamada for Nadezhdina: “After all, one must understand the following: the question of Putin’s support was not even posed. It seems to me that about half of the delegates are supported by Khakamada unconditionally, and the second half is embarrassed by the fact of its self-nomination and rhetoric about the Nordo. If she had not acted with such a sharp criticism of Putin, I think that all the ATP would support her. ”

Regarding the possible candidate of the party leader, Boris Nadezhdin also suggested that the governor Ivan Starikov could become him. However, he emphasized that this issue will be resolved after the presidential election. “Of course, the results of the elections on March 14 are obvious, but the consequences are not obvious. After all, Putin can gain both 90%and 70%, and Hakamad, say, 5%, and then the situation can be different. We are all waiting for the results of the elections, the formation of a new government, where many of us can enter. Consequently, the status of people who are now in the political officer may change. That is why, the issue of the party leader should be resolved precisely after the presidential election, ”said Boris Nadezhdin.

Future: Boris Nadezhdin in 2008-2011-a member of the Federal Political Council of the Just business party, after trying for many years to be elected to different bodies, succeeded only in 2019-now he is in the Council of Deputies of Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region. In October 2023, he nominated his candidacy for the presidential election. The party "SPS" was dissolved in 2008.

January 27, 2004, the Talino court upheld the sentence to the former Chekists

The Tallinn District Court on Tuesday upheld the verdict issued by the County Court of the island of Saarema to the former Chekists.

Thus, the court rejected the complaint of the lawyer of the accused Alexander Kustov against the decision of the county court of Saaremaa, who sentenced the former investigator of the Saarema ESSR August Kolka and the former inspector of the same department Peter the years by the age of eight years, RIA Novosti reports, RIA Novosti.

According to the indictment, on March 25, 1949, Peter Kisly and August Kolk took part in the organization and expulsion of the inhabitants of the island of Saarema to Siberia. The sour and Kolk were convicted under Article 61 of the Criminal Code ER (“Crime against humanity”).

January 28, 2004 - presidential race: there are seven applicants left

Vladimir Bryntsalov refuses to further participate in the election campaign for the presidential election and will not submit voter signatures to the Central Election Commission in his support. He told reporters on Wednesday.

Thus, the number of potential applicants for the presidential post was reduced to seven. We remind before that the entrepreneur A. Aqentiev-Kikalishvili lifted his candidacy.

Two candidates - nominee of the Communist Party of the Communist Party Nikolai Kharitonov and the representative of the LDPR Oleg Malyshkin - are already registered by the Central Election Commission. Five applicants submitted to the CEC the voter signatures in their support, which are currently checked by the work group of the Central Election Commission.

It is expected that the final list of candidates for the highest post in the country will become known no later than February 8.

Future: From the news about Bryntsalov’s companies, he is engaged in business, including pharmaceuticals. One of the few news reports that in 2021 Anzor Iosifovich Aksentiev-Kikalishvili demanded $ 1.5 million from some spouses, which they, according to the investigation, stole the Positive Marketing LTD from his Virgin company.

At the moment, Nikolai Kharitonov is the chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Development of the Far East and the Arctic. Oleg Malyshkin will take 2.02 %in the presidential election, and with the slogan “Remember the Russians and take care of the poor” will take fifth place out of six. He left the State Duma and from the LDPR in 2007. On this, his political career ended.

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