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A representative of a party claiming to be liberal spoke in favor of Putin's third term
The Civil Power party held two events on Tuesday. The head of the party's Supreme Council , Mikhail Barshchevsky, the plenipotentiary representative of the Russian government in the Constitutional, Supreme and Supreme Arbitration Court, chaired the round table on citizenship issues, and his first deputy, Dmitry Korobkov, met with representatives of the media. At the same time, Mr. Barshchevsky learned about the very fact of Mr. Korobkov’s press conference directly from journalists and was somewhat surprised. This gave rise to suspicions among the press that internal ferment had begun in the party that had appeared only three months ago.Speaking at the round table, Barshchevsky said that he would fight to simplify the procedure for registering citizens in Russia. “We want to propose significantly simplifying the procedure for registering citizens, because this, in general, is still an institution of registration,” said the chairman of the party’s Supreme Council. - And this must be done simply by notification, that is, a person came to the police station, wrote a piece of paper that I now live here - goodbye, bye. By doing this, we will eliminate queues, we will sharply reduce corruption, and citizens will begin to respect themselves.”
And Dmitry Korobkov shared the party’s plans in case it suddenly (so far no public opinion polls promise such a prospect for “Civil Force”) gets into the State Duma. Among the priority topics, he named issues of education, ecology and the mysterious “legitimization of the ideology of success in Russia.” “For a long time it was sinful and wrong to be successful in our country,” Mr. Korobkov said. This belief, in his opinion, must be eradicated from the people's consciousness. “I would give the new president advice to award orders and medals to businessmen who started their own businesses in the early nineties. What strength and endurance was needed to overcome all the difficulties - visits from bandits, unbearable taxes.” But when asked by journalists why, in this case, Mikhail Khodorkovsky received a long prison sentence instead of an order, Mr. Korobkov mysteriously replied that he knew something that supposedly justified this imprisonment. True, he did not want to share his secret knowledge.
Answering the question of who he would like to see as the new president and whether “Civic Force” would support a single democratic candidate, Mr. Korobkov said that he liked Vladimir Putin’s third term. “I have respect for the feat he accomplished,” Mr. Korobkov said. At the same time, he is not ready to support any successor to Putin.
The first deputy chairman of the Supreme Council of the supposedly opposition party also spoke respectfully about United Russia, which “does a lot of right things.” But he himself does not want to join the ranks of the party in power. Because “I’m used to starting a business from scratch” (in addition to party activities, Mr. Korobkov is the chairman of the board of directors of the ADV marketing communications group).
The first deputy chairman of the party's Supreme Council also commented on the situation with TV Center's lawsuit against Civil Power, which owed the TV channel 9 million rubles. for television broadcast. He is convinced that the conflict will be resolved in a workable manner and nothing terrible will happen to the party.
Despite the fact that Dmitry Korobkov is formally Mikhail Barshchevsky’s deputy, he considers the chairman of the federal political council, Alexander Ryavkin, to be his boss. He also shared that, perhaps, at the September congress of the “Civil Force” the party management model will be simplified, the supreme council will be abolished, and the federal political council will remain the governing body. However, Alexander Ryavkin, in a conversation with a Vremya Novostey correspondent, said that he does not support this idea. “I trust the congress delegates who voted for this structure at one time,” said Mr. Ryavkin.
He also said that the Federal Political Council is legally the main party body, and the Supreme Council “was created to represent the party in the public space. “That’s why we invited media people there,” said Mr. Ryavkin.