"United Russia" does not need Mikhalkov's manifesto, the party said

In "United Russia" is considered inappropriate to use Nikita Mikhalkov’s manifesto in their activities.

"The party has a program. The party is also guided in its activities by the messages of the President of Russia and at the moment there is no need for any manifestos to replace these strategic documents," a source in the party said on Saturday on Saturday . According to him, in United Russia there are groups with various views - from conservatives to liberals.

“It would be strange if such a loose document as Mikhalkov’s manifesto was declared by someone a document for United Russia,” the agency’s interlocutor emphasized.

The party consider Mikhalkov’s manifesto to be a good document in order to stimulate a public discussion, but many of his assessments and conclusions “lead us away from the tasks of modernization,” the source emphasized. “This is a manifesto of enlightened conservatism not XXI, but the twentieth century,” a source in United Russia said.

The film director Nikita Mikhalkov believes that the United Russia party should embark on the path of modernization, formulate the specific goals of its development in order not to turn into an amorphous political education.

“If the party in the authorities wants to leave power, it must be modernized, should move and be concrete,” Mikhalkov told Interfax on Saturday.

He noted that if the party in the authorities had an interest in his manifesto of enlightened conservatism, then "God forbid, it will be updated, more specifically specifically in its actions and thoughts, and will not be a huge amorphous body that acts as it is ordered."