Speaks and shows tandem

Experts - about the media activity of Medvedev and Putin

The president has already begun to prepare for moving to the White House

Speaks and shows the tandem. Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin are building up media activity and do not leave attempts to explain the reasons for the castling in Duumvirate to citizens. On September 30, the president gave an interview to three federal television channels, on October 15, he met with his supporters, on the 19th in Gorki he held a meeting dedicated to the future to the “Big Government”, and visited the journalism department of Moscow State University on the 20th. The prime minister has so far limited the interview with the television channels on October 17. The New Times, along with experts, figured out that both of the first persons want to convey to the country

In October 2007, when Vladimir Putin announced his decision to head the lists of United Russia in the Duma elections, the party rating in the week, according to VTsIOM, increased by 6% - from 48% to 54%. Now, according to the same sociologists, the situation is different: from September 24, when Putin and Medvedev promised to change places, on October 1, the Rating of the Rating Oser amounted to 4% and in total reached 46%. But at the same time, the rating of Medvedev himself, heading the party list, fell from 23% to 17%.

The New Times experts are sure that the tandem did not receive the desired reaction to the news donated to the population, and therefore is trying to explain himself now.

In an interview with the heads of federal television channels, Vladimir Putin assured citizens that they still have a tango choice around the authorities on Saturday on October 15 at a meeting with supporters (among whom were the rector of the Higher School of Economics, Yaroslav Kuzminov, and TV presenter Tina Kandelaki, and an steelweight from the city of Zlatoust) Dmitry Medvedev again-after a television interview on September 30-explained his decision not to go for the second term. Yes, he saw a negative reaction to him in the media and the Internet. “But his (Vladimir Putin. - The New Times) The rating is higher,” Medvedev said. - Few people believe in this, but we are really not competitors, but close comrades and friends. Twenty years already. Otherwise, there would have been no my political career in Moscow. ” At the same time, he assured the supporters and Russians as a whole that his course on modernization would be continued.

Nevertheless, Vladimir Putin on October 17, in an interview with the heads of federal channels - Ernst, Kulistikov, Dobrodeev - the youngest in tandem slightly besieged: he, of course, is not going to make any sharp changes, but "it will be necessary to see how it will work." Speaking of the castling, Putin recalled what he could - "Easy!" “Change the constitution and not to leave the main post for four years, but did not change the basic law for himself, so that" people realize that there was no tragedy in the shift, in the natural change of power. " And, like Medvedev, he noted that the population still has the choice, and only those who do not believe in it do not.

All the experts surveyed by The New Times agreed: the last performances of the tandem are an attempt to bring a theoretical justification to the decision on the castling.

Vladislav Inozemtsev, director of the Center for Research of the post -industrial society, in a conversation with The New Times expressed the opinion that Medvedev’s speech is an attempt to justify why he did not go to the second presidential term, and Putin, in fact, carries one main idea: “Do not think that there will be changes.” According to Inozemtsev, "he (Putin) returns to lead the country in the same way, because, according to him, the deviation from a given course can lead to a deplorable situation."

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The head of the regional programs of the Fund for the Development of Information Policy Alexander Kynev is a similar impression: the tandem is justified for the decision voiced in September. “The authorities intuitively understands that it was in a strange position that her actions were in dissonance with the mood of the most active part of society,” says Kynev. “Due to the fact that these excuses are in such a continuous stream, the tandem gives the impression of a person who has something broken and he is staring further.”

The head of the Institute of Modern Development (Incor) Igor Jurgens in a commentary on the magazine goes even further: "The authority was underestimated (negative) the effect of a rather arrogant statement that" we, in general, have long decided and do not understand why you are so twitched. " People poorly transferred the attitude towards themselves as a non -standing human material. It is enough to go to the Internet. It is clear that the relevant services have reported, and now recouping, flirting, but so far it is very poorly obtained. ” Jurgens described the body of the tandem of the last month as "tango around the authorities."

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The President of the Politics Foundation Vyacheslav Nikonov "He did not hear anything new in Putin's speech." In the argument of the prime minister, he noted a message about the difficult economic situation in the world and the need for strong state leadership in this difficult time. Indeed, Putin more than once mentioned the world crisis in a television interview and tried to leave the parallels with Brezhnev: “Roosevelt was elected four times (in the USA. - The New Times). He led the country in the most difficult years of economic depression and during the Second World War. Kohl in Germany was also in power for 16 years. ”

“Yes, only here it is necessary to mention right away that after Roosevelt the American people made it impossible to get more than twice,” commented this passage of Prime Minister Igor Jurgens. And Vladislav Inozemtsev recalled that Roosevelt won in democratic elections with real competitors, and in the UK the Second World War did not prevent Churchill with the elections.

Something new in Putin's speech only noted

Political scientist Gleb Pavlovsky. In an interview with Eho Moscow, he identified a number of interesting, in his opinion, passages. So, Putin produced the "peculiar restructuring of the system", but this restructuring will not be liberal. “This is simply a refusal to sovereignty the people of the Russian Federation and the approval of their personal sovereignty as the main one. This is an extremely concrete statement: the state is me, ”says Pavlovsky.

Fedor Bondarchuk (in the photo on the right), Tina Kandelaki and Viktor Vekselberg, the Big initiative of the system, announced Digital October, and President Medvedev, who put forward the idea of ​​forming a “large government”. The president announced the need to expand the instrument that he has to manage both at a meeting with supporters, and on October 19 in Gorki at the first meeting of the Public Committee, which should form the platform of this future government. The idea of ​​Medvedev sounds like this: his current public committee of supporters should become a constant advisory body under the government. At the same time, he assured that the creation of this type of structure would not increase the number of officials. According to

The scientific director of the Higher School of Economics Yevgeny Yasin, Medvedev, who will have to solve serious monetary issues without Kudrin in the new government, now wants to form a “support group” around him, which would tell him what to do, but he, Medvedev, will reserve the right to act in his own way.

Igor Jurgens believes that the creation of a certain expert community and the Public Committee under the Government will bring its results only if the legislation is changed: “This Public Committee must be endowed with the right to some kind of initiative for the government.” Otherwise, according to the interlocutor of the magazine, this prefix to the government will be a window, and not real assistance to the ministries. And if Vyacheslav Nikonov believes that “he (Medvedev) collects people who should help him effectively solve the tasks,” then Alexander Kynev is sure: “They (the members of the tandem) continue to multiply essence without the need”. It is quite obvious to Kynev that there will be no changes for the better: “There is power, there is her environment, someone may change places, on this-that’s all.”

In the preparation of the material
Anna Zalysina took part