Medvedev - "United Russia": do not be likened to the CPSU

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called on the United Russia party not to be like the CPSU. “We do not strive for the CPSU, especially since she has not finished very well,” RIA Novosti reports Medvedev’s words at a meeting with EP functionaries in Yakutsk. “Let's go, as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin said, his own way.”

Having recalling that in the fall in a number of subjects of the Federation, including in Yakutia, elections to regional legislatures will be held, the prime minister called on the one -party members of the “Consistent Consolidated Work” during the election campaign. According to RBC, Medvedev also advised unicorns to participate in public debate more often.

In May 2012, TV presenter Vladimir Pozner invited Dmitry Medvedev to visit his program on Channel One and explain the reason for unanimous votes at the congresses of United Russia. According to Pozner, the 13th Congress of EP "resembled the Congress of the CPSU from stagnation."

“And not a single voice is against it, no one has abstained. You understand that it doesn’t happen? Where several hundred or even a hundred people are gathering, one will be against it, it will definitely abstain. We just arrange, I mean people. Why? What are they afraid of? What will they exclude from the party, what? They move from the feeder? But what about democracy? You say,” said the TV show. “However, maybe I don’t understand something. Tell me, Dmitry Anatolyevich, you are the chairman of the party, maybe you will come to the program and explain to me and others? It will be terribly interesting and, of course, useful. It would be great,” Pozner noted.