Kremlin for repair

The country's main office is preparing for the return of GDP

Kremlin for repair. The country's main office is being prepared for the return of Vladimir Putin: the walls are painted, the ceilings are plastered, and frames are changing. What kind of people have already come to the presidential administration after Sergey Ivanov and Vyacheslav Volodin and how the domestic policy will change - the New Times knew the dream of Vyacheslav Volodin in recent years to enter the Kremlin, says one of the new deputy head of the administration of political technologists. “And then it happened, they appointed, but you have to work in the former office of Vladislav Surkov in Old Square: the 14th Corps of the Kremlin is being repaired.” The presidential zone is also closed, repair work is underway there, the interlocutors close to the presidential administration say. Something similar was in 2008, when on the eve of Vladimir Putin’s move to the White House then Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov had to move to another office so that the room was prepared for the new owner. Zubkov was a technical prime minister, but the outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev seemed to be at a meekly follows the rules of the game: over the past two weeks in the Kremlin, he appeared only once, on March 19, a meeting of the Interstate Council of the Eurasian Economic Community, in which the President of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine took part in the Kremlin Palace. All other protocol events - from working meetings with governors to a meeting of the Security Council - the president holds Gorka at the residence near Moscow.

The old ones on the old “The main difference between Volodin and Surkov is a big formalist. If earlier the Kremlin was in fashion for gray schemes, and the Fund of Effective Policy or VTsIOM de facto were divisions of the Presidential Administration, then Volodin puts this economy in order, accepts people to the state, said one of The New Times, close to the former deputy head of the Presidential Administration, and now Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov. “At the same time, Volodin has not yet disposed of any budgets and no one has yet seen money from him, everything is limited to promises and appointments.”

The result of the first three months of his work - the state of administration of domestic politics will literally chop the eyes. Instead of the previous three, his leader will now have as many as five deputies. But the main thing is that the head of this department, despite the numerous rumors about the ambulance, will be the same Konstantin Kostin. “He remains unexpectedly for himself in this post,” a source close to the presidential administration comments on the situation. - In recent months, work with the media was not in full, as Kostin thought about the imminent dismissal. Now he seems to have perked up. ”

After Volodin’s move to the Kremlin, it was expected that he would completely replace the Surkov team with his appointments. However, so far this does not happen. “I think this is due to the fact that the fate of Surkov himself is unclear, because there is information that he can take the post of Deputy Prime Minister and the head of the government apparatus, which means that he will return the influence lost. Therefore, although the surname of Surkov causes a well -known irritation in Volodin, he will not grind his team tightly, ”says the interlocutor.

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Wiretaps of phones, hacking of mailboxes and accounts in a living magazine, external observation and special operations of special journalists, as recently happened in the restaurant of Ksenia Sobchak, is a favorite Kostinsky style of work

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“The wiretaps of phones, hacking of mailboxes and accounts in a living magazine, external observation and special operation of special journalists, as recently happened in the restaurant of Ksenia Sobchak

* * In the restaurant "Trebul", the journalists of the Internet portal LifeNews, a member of the Aram Gabrelyanov Publishing House, tried to record a meeting of the oppositionists Boris Nemtsov, Ilya Yashin and others on Yashin and Sobchak on a hidden video camera: while Lifenews journalists were exhibited from Tolbul. They damaged the video camera. , - this is a favorite Kostinsky style of work, ”says another political strategist. - To withdraw the meeting of Leo Ponomarev in a restaurant with a Japanese diplomat or set ourselves on Nemtsov - too. And if Surkov could sometimes hold it, now he will be able to turn around with might and main. ”

If Kostin retains his post, then two of his deputies, Radiy Khabirov and Igor Udovichenko will also probably remain in their posts. The curator of the work of political parties Khabirov became famous after the story with the collapse of the “right -handed” in September 2011, it was he who represented the presidential administration at the party’s alternative congress, which decided to expel Mikhail Prokhorov from his ranks. Udovichenko, in turn, oversaw a regional policy. True, in their areas there were no responsibility without permutation: for example, the Department for working with the Federal Assembly and parties, which was in the field of responsibility of Radiy Khabirov, will be divided. His former leader Denis Stepanyuk will now engage in separately parliament. The parties were entrusted to the former chief of the reception of Vladimir Putin Alexei Romanov, and the former head of the United Russia Executive Committee in Moscow, Viktor Seliverstov, will lead the work with the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the central and north-west federal districts in the administration of the Presidential Policy Administration.

The new faces have been preserved by the fog with the future of Kostin himself, many have experienced in his place the political scientist Dmitry Badovsky. He was expected from him that he would work with the media in a more civilized, without direct calls, could be expected by some messages in censorship in relation to state media, and less provocations against opposition politicians would become less. However, Badovsky eventually occupied a completely different post - the deputy head of the Department for domestic politics. Its task is to oversee the work with expert communities and the Department of Strategic Planning and Analysis. “One Saturday, in early February, I was called early in the morning from Badovsky from the presidential administration and in an orderly tone reported: on Monday you should be at a meeting with Volodin,” one of the representatives of the expert community told The New Times. -15–20 political scientists were collected at the meeting, but the dialogue did not work out, Volodin did not spare compliments, but it all ended with some vague promises: de will come, we will involve one of our projects. He has been buying loyalty for so long: it is uncomfortable for people to criticize it after such a meeting, they are waiting for budgets. ”

Many consider Badovsky the appointment of Badovsky both successful and expected: he was often attracted to the administration to the work as a consultant. Badovsky is a person known in expert circles, in 2000-2001 he entered the working group of the State Council for the preparation of proposals for the reform of the system of state authorities and management, and in 2007 became a member of the Public Chamber.

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Prokopenko was considered one of the closest people to Gryzlov, but recently he had a good relationship with Vyacheslav Volodin, in any case, he was elected to the State Duma on the list from his native Saratov region for Volodin Saratov

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Of the new deputy Kostin, it is worth noting Timur Prokopenko, earlier - the State Duma deputy from United Russia and the leader of the “Young Guard”, the youth structure of the party in power. He will oversee the new Department for working with youth organizations and be responsible for the ideology of Russian youth policy. In connection with the appointment to the administration, Prokopenko resigned the powers of the State Duma deputy, and also abandoned the post of leader Mger. The interlocutors close to the administration call Prokopenko Volodinskaya Creature, and his appointment is a serious undermining of the positions of the head of the Rosmolodezh Vasily Yakemenko and the movement “ours”. At the same time, political scientist Mikhail Tula in a conversation with The New Times noted that if Mger was originally a wires, then “ours” in the summer of 2011 after the opening of the All -Russian Popular Front also rebuilt under the new favorite of Putin. “This Surkova was seriously offended, and for the first time he did not come to the commissars in the camp for Seliger last summer,” he notes.

Prokopenko began his career at the ITAR-TASS agency, then he was a spokesman for the ex-speaker of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov (“Parliament is not a place for discussions”). Prokopenko was considered one of the people closest to Gryzlov, but recently he had a good relationship with Vyacheslav Volodin, in any case, he was elected to the State Duma on the list from his native Saratov region for Volodin. Immediately after the appointment of Prokopenko, former TV presenter Ivan Demidov, who was responsible for working with public associations and religious organizations, left for AP Old Square. The Department of Interaction with Civil Society Institutes and the Department for Information Policy and Media Smashing will now be headed by a former White House employee, Deputy Head of Putin’s campaign staff Pavel Zenkovich: at the same time, he will also become deputy head of the presidential administration. Zenkovich is considered a “peskov man” from among “young managers”. At one time, Zenkovich built relations with the press of the Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, when he was still listed in the potential successors of Vladimir Putin. The interlocutors close to the administration say that this appointment will strengthen the position of Peskov himself, who is expected to switch to the Kremlin after him as a presidential press secretary, or as his assistant, replacing Sergei Prikhodko after the inauguration of Putin. According to unconfirmed reports, the appointment of Zenkovich was supported by the former press secretary of Putin, and now the deputy head of the presidential administration Alexei Gromov, who was behind most high-profile resignations in the media in recent months. After the scandal with rearrangements in the Council of Directors of Gazprom-Media, The New Times wrote that Gromov could leave his office in Old Square soon after the March elections. So far, the resignation has not taken place, and the final solution to this issue is postponed to May. “The media management exists so far in its previous form, Volodin does not concern it,” Gleb Pavlovsky, head of the Effective Policy Fund for Effective Policy, told The New Times.

The director of the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation Mikhail Vinogradov talks about the tendency to rejuvenate personnel in the administration: 30-year-old young managers come there, most are immigrants from the United Russia and the White House apparatus. “The complete change of composition will not occur, but the rotation is noticeable. It is not known yet exactly how the course will change and what to expect from young managers in the administration, but Volodin is trying to give her new breath, ”says Vinogradov. His colleague Mikhail Tula believes that it is not worth waiting for serious changes in the Kremlin’s policy: “The main players remained the same. Kostin is the only strong frame in this team. Everyone else plays the role of Volodin's support group. ”