| The elite vied with each other to welcome the candidate for prime minister Our establishment had a dream a long time ago. The statesmen dreamed of only one thing: Mikhail Efimovich Fradkov would be named a candidate for the post of Chairman of the Russian Government. And so we waited. Sergei Stepashin, the head of the Accounts Chamber, who is on a working trip to a number of Latin American countries, arrived. Night still reigned over the expanses of the Brazilian-Argentine jungle, and news agencies brought to us his words filled with happiness: “Today the president needs a strong and powerful administrator as prime minister. Mikhail Fradkov is such a person.”
Arkady Volsky waited: “I have known Mikhail Efimovich well and for a long time and I can say that I am not only pleased with the decision of the president of the country, who proposed Fradkov for the post of prime minister, but consider it a major victory for a reasonable policy ,” the head of the RUIE told Interfax on Monday . He is not alone in his opinion there at the RSPP. Executive Secretary, Vice-President of the RSPP Igor Yurgens confided in Interfax: “Personally, I have a very warm attitude towards Mikhail Efimovich, since I had the honor of working as his manager at Ingosstrakh.”
So, the former leader of the future prime minister is confident that the presidential choice “is a very unexpected, but quite adequate move, which gives a positive signal to restrained liberals and does not lead to a radicalization of the atmosphere in the country.”
Clearly one of the “restrained liberals” is the President of Chechnya, Akhmat Kadyrov, who, with Caucasian frankness, stated that he practically does not know Mikhail Fradkov, but believes that “the choice of the president, as always, is accurate, thoughtful and verified.”
The governor of the Pskov region, Evgeny Mikhailov, is also not very familiar with the future head of government. “I only once personally communicated with Mikhail Fradkov, when he came in the summer of 2002 to the Bolshoi Theater’s production of Boris Godunov at the walls of the Pskov Kremlin,” and nevertheless , “For our region, which is territorially and mentally closer to Europe, this is a particularly positive The point is that the new prime minister is not only well known in the West, but also knows European problems and can really defend the interests of the country in the Western market,” hopes Mr. Mikhailov.
The Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, Mikhail Margelov, is simply sure of this. He called Fradkov "the pioneer of a fundamentally new strategy in relations with the EU."
The merits of a candidate for prime minister are endless. Moreover, it is not only United Russia members who praise him. Here, prominent SPS member Pavel Krasheninnikov said that he would vote for the appointment of Mikhail Fradkov to the post of prime minister, taking into account “his experience, systemic thinking and consistency.”
Co-chairman of the Union of Right Forces Anatoly Chubais actually issued a special press release so that Russia would know that “there are only a few professionals of this class and experience in the country.” Moreover, Mikhail Fradkov “has a rare property that is useful for the current government - the ability for pragmatic everyday actions with a simultaneous vision of strategy.”
Vladimir Zhirinovsky alone cannot find “a single positive moment” in this appointment. According to the leader of the LDPR, this “Fradkov has not shown himself to be anything.”
Everything is ahead, Vladimir Volfovich. Everything is ahead. Vasily MALEVICH |
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