"Reboot" of the "Russian Project"?

At the end of February 2008, the leader and chief ideologist of one of the most scandalous projects of United Russia - the Russian Project - Ivan Demidov was appointed head of the party department for ideological work. This gave reason to talk about the closure of the Russian Project. According to the Kommersant newspaper, on February 21, 2008, the site's editor-in-chief Yegor Kholmogorov stated in his blog that "the Russian project is now closed," and the site's staff, on condition of anonymity, reported that "after the elections, the general funding of patriotic projects was cut and The site has stopped updating. The latest information posted on the site at that time was dated February 14th. On February 22, Kholmogorov himself denied this information, saying that he had not reported anything of the kind.

For several days the site did not function at all.

On February 26, 2008, both the project itself and its web resource were formally translated by the introduction of the Center for Social Conservative Policy (TsSKP) (headed by Yuri Shuvalov).

In March, the site resumed its work, but in a greatly reduced form. Currently, it contains only about two dozen archival publications (February to November 2007), mostly devoted to the Russian Project itself and discussions around the "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" in high school. However, with such a radical "cleansing" of the content of the resource, some of the materials transferred from the blogs of the former authors of the resource still remain available in the form of links to these blogs, preserved on the site of the "Russian Project".

Banners of all "information partners" have also disappeared from the site, including scandalous ultra- and moderately nationalist Internet resources.

Sources

• Taratuta Julia. Leading together: Youth leader was appointed the ideologist of "United Russia" // Kommersant. 2008. February 22.
• Kholmogorova Vera. Taken under the wing // Expert. 2008. February 26.