Between Moscow and the Kremlin

The protests split the elite

Between Moscow and the Kremlin. The protests of the last week led to the split and the emergence of two different positions in the elites: some - the presidential administration - were longing to laid out, others - the metropolitan city hall - wanted a compromise. The New Times learned about disagreements within the authorities
The decision to disperse the camp on pure ponds was made on Old Square, and not on Tverskaya, 13, the sources of The New Times in United Russia and the Presidential Administration say. Formally, the camp was eliminated by the decision of the Basmanny Court, which reacted to the complaint of the inhabitants of the houses near the purebred boulevard. But the complaints and the trial were given a move only after making a political decision, the interlocutors of The New Times are sure.
“The fact that this camp existed for so long, and the police acted with sparing methods, the role of the city hall, more precisely, of individual leaders loyal to the protesters,” said The New Times, close to the presidential administration, is great. - To join with protesters in a dialogue is normal. But in the city hall there are people who are ready to close their eyes even for violation of the law in order to just prevent the escalation of the conflict between the opposition and the authorities in Moscow. ” The same interlocutor, as well as a number of other sources of The New Times, even call the names of “individual leaders”: “compromise” position - “do not touch them, will disperse yourself, the main thing, without unnecessary scandals” - defended the super -regional cooperation, sports and tourism Alexander Gorbenko and the head of the Department of Culture Sergei Kapkov. Gorbenko, by the way, is responsible for the coordination of rallies. Therefore, after the appearance of the camp on pure ponds, Gorbenko was urgently called from the vacation and, according to the decree of the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, on May 11, even acted as the mayor on the weekend on May 12–13. It was on these days that there was practically no riot police around the camp, and information appeared in the media that there would be no acceleration at all.
The source of The New Times in United Russia notes that the party did not participate in the development of a decision to disperse the camp, it was made precisely in the presidential administration. The fact of the discussion between Old Square and Tverskaya, 13, on the question of the fate of the camp, the source confirms. However, according to him, it is impossible to talk about serious contradictions between the mayor of the capital and the administration, "different opinions were simply heard."
The towers of the authorities
On May 14, there were rumors that the camp would visit the Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, but in the end everything was limited to the visit of Gorbenko, and Sergei Kapkov even expressed a desire to take part in the upcoming “control walk” of artists - they were going to repeat the rally of writers on May 19–20, meet with fans in the fresh air, show them the work and check if the police would disperse the peaceful meeting without symbols and symbols and symbols and symbols. Sloganov.
The ex-deputy of the Moscow City Duma, the editor-in-chief of the Mossovet news agency Yuri Zagrebnaya recalls that on May 14, literally on the eve of the acceleration of the camp on pure ponds, the State Duma deputy from United Russia Nikolai Gonchar came there and said that he did not have information about the acceleration of the camp. The same was said by the media, the head of the regional security department of the capital, Alexei Mayorov. “The future of the so -called camp will depend on the very participants themselves ... I have not heard from anyone, so that in the near future the camp on pure ponds was planned to be liquidated ...” - Majorov made such statements for the media.
Another detail that issues the internal vocabulary of the authorities is the behavior of the police, continues to be fucked up. After the court issued a decision on the liquidation of the camp at the request of local residents, the police brought a decision to the cleaning boulevard, which orders to leave the camp until 12 o’clock the next day, but already at night, before this period, the camp was dispersed. “What is happening and was happening, suggests that the“ towns of power ”did not come to a single decision,” summarizes Zagrebnaya.
“The position of some city hall figures was significantly more loyal to the protesters than the position of the federal authorities. I think these same figures tried to influence the position of the Moscow police, ”political scientist Dmitry Orlov, close to the Kremlin, told The New Times. “The metropolitan city hall actually took a waiting position.” The source of The New Times in the City Hall confirms these words: Sobyanin distanced from the decision, and the desire of subordinates to avoid the scandal and escalation of the conflict meets the style of the control of the mayor.
Another source close to Old Square adds that Sobyanin has long -standing cool relations with the first deputy head of the presidential administration Vyacheslav Volodin, who was in the center of the decision to disperse the camp.
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In the situation around the events on purebred boulevard, almost for the first time in recent years, the elites demonstrated the difference in approaches and the presence of two points of view within usually monolithic power

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There are no responsible ones
“These theories are fiction. It was clear from the very beginning that local residents did not like the camp with the camp and that no one, on the one hand, is not against the opposition or any other people gather anywhere, but this should be done in a civilized manner. Please let the artists come and draw, let people walk. But when they live there, when the dry closets smell, generators work, the sidewalk is fenced, this causes general discontent, ”says the high -ranking interlocutor of The New Times in the presidential administration. - The main thing is that the federal authorities had nothing to do with acceleration. This kind of decision is made at the local level, and purebred boulevard is in the field of subordination of the regional authorities. ”
“The city hall has nothing to do with the acceleration of the camp on clean -up Boulevard. The Moscow police only complied with the court, ”the interlocutor of The New Times in the City Hall said.
“It is clear that no one wants to take responsibility for actions that seem wrong and shameful,” said Gleb Pavlovsky, president of the effective policy of the effective policy. “I do not exclude that the city hall did not insist on acceleration, but in any case, she did not go to the direct conflict with the administration.”
In the situation around the events on Chistoprudny Boulevard, almost for the first time in recent years, the elites demonstrated the difference in approaches and the presence of two points of view within usually monolithic power, said the deputy general director of the Center for Political Technology, Alexei Makarkin. The Moscow authorities, according to him, "reacted calmly and technologically to what was happening." Firstly, the expert explains, the city hall clearly did not want scandals, and secondly, in the early days there was no articulated intelligible position of the federal government, for which the appearance of the camp was a surprise. When the feds formulated it, the city hall did not go to confrontation: “Yes, apparently, at the time of the decision was the discussion, but the last word always remains with the federal government.”
“Now there are two groups in elites, which, however, do not yet enter into an open conflict,” the political scientist continues. - There are officials who observe the situation and see that everything is calm, they are responsible for specific problems and try to avoid them. On the other hand, there are people who are responsible for politics at the federal level who remember the end of the 1980s and do not want to go to any concessions of the opposition. ”