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Medvedev: Status - active
"We are by no means striving to play the role of the boss around the world." Dmitry Medvedev is preparing for his Munich speech. Does he have his own policy? They are discussed by the deputy editor of the newspaper Kommersant Gleb Cherkasov and co -chair of the Institute of National Strategy Valery Khomyakov. Presenter Elena Rykovtseva
Elena Rykovtseva: Today is our event, Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, who spread unprecedented activity in the international arena. He was about to speak with the Munich speech and actually made it with her because he gave two large interviews, which just relate to the issues of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation, which was completely unusual for Dmitry Anatolyevich, he still has not done this. Why is this happening what happens to him, why is he, and not Vladimir Putin? We will talk about this today with our guests: with us Gleb Cherkasov, deputy editor -in -chief of the newspaper Kommersant and Valery Khomyakov, political scientist with us in touch. Do I correctly understand that Dmitry Anatolyevich emphasized international activity, because this was the case between them from the very beginning, since the time of the presidency of the same Dmitry Anatolyevich, that the president has been engaged in international activities, and the prime minister of economic, and they do not intersect with each other?
Gleb Cherkasov: It was instituted much earlier. The prime minister is more on the household, and if he is engaged in international issues, then it is their economic side, the president is engaged in great policy. What is unusual? The unusualness is that in recent years, the Foreign Minister Lavrov traveled to this conference, and now Dmitry Medvedev will go there, who, according to my estimates, has not been involved in May 2012, when he moved to the White House from the Kremlin. Such a conference, no matter how much discuss, no matter how much you plan, it is still for large statements, it still suggests a designation of its own political line. The fact that Medvedev was sent there was a very great surprise on the day when it turned out, this is the really news, from which we may have been wealthy. Now I will wait for his tomorrow's performance with interest.
Elena Rykovtseva: We will discuss his tomorrow's performance today, because I am completely sure that nothing additional compared to what he said to the Handelsblatt newspaper, a giant interview on the eve, I think his performance will be a brief squeeze. Therefore, what he says, we can discuss today, and tomorrow our listeners will check and it turns out that we discussed very accurately. You are supposed to conceive at work: why did you decide to advance it on the international line?
Gleb Cherkasov: I would not want to conceive, because this is not our work.
Elena Rykovtseva: Analyze, suggest, build versions.
Gleb Cherkasov: I am ready to assume that Putin is already such conferences somewhere not very interesting, because he wants to talk directly to the main persons. It seems to him that this is the level of Obama or any other president of the United States, whom he will meet in a year. And the second person can go there-this is first. Secondly, Medvedev is believed to be an assessment of who was liberal, who is a hawk, who is a pigeon, who else a bird is all the theory. There are different people in the Russian leadership, some of them make quite sharp statements, such as, for example, the secretary of the Patrushev Security Council, Medvedev did not make such harsh ones. Both of his interviews: let's talk, count with us, and we will begin to talk again, let's stop playing in sanctions, let's return to the blessed 2013.
Elena Rykovtseva: Do you want to say that they sent a parliamentary with such a relatively white flag?
Gleb Cherkasov: No, a parliamentary with a white flag is not that. This for the current Russian leadership will be the loss of a person. They sent a person who must say: we are ready to talk. This is a proposal to realize the need for a conversation., Say, a protocol about intent.
Elena Rykovtseva: Yes, but Lavrov could say the same - we are ready to talk.
Gleb Cherkasov: Firstly, Lavrov is quite busy.
Elena Rykovtseva: Is Medvedev free?
Gleb Cherkasov: I mean not that he has a lot of things, Medvedev has little and vice versa, I mean that Lavrov is constantly in a polemic dialogue with the whole world. It is precisely from Lavrov that the tradition has been laid down enough, I don’t remember such a journalistic Foreign Ministry, you can relate to journalism in different ways, and Medvedev is the following level. He is still a prime minister, he is a person who was president, he is a man who in a clearly focusing part of the Russian elite, and a peaceful part, can be assumed. His sending to Munich is an indicator that we arrived, we are ready to talk.
Elena Rykovtseva: That is, you have been investing here, for four years they adhered to him, he was not released. After all, he practically did not speak on the Ukrainian topic.
Gleb Cherkasov: Not quite so, not that he was not released, but there is simply a distribution of functionality: the president for international relations, for the strategy, for the war, for security forces, for something else, the prime minister for the household. There is, as in Soviet times, the first secretary and chairman of the district executive committee, the Prime Minister in our situation is the chairman of the district executive committee. He cannot, of course, speak with political declarations exactly because there is a president for this.
Elena Rykovtseva: Okay, all the same, a political decision should have been made that he could not, but now he can.
Gleb Cherkasov: Of course, it was accepted. As far as I understand, we wrote about this, that there was a meeting of a member of the Security Council on the day when it became known that he was going, it was decided to send Dmitry Anatolyevich for one reason or another. There was no us at this meeting, I do not want to speculate. In the morning it was also believed that Lavrov, suddenly a proposal came. The organizers of the conference, as I understand it, were delighted, because it raises the level, it is interesting.
Elena Rykovtseva: Valery, what is your interpretation of this unusual unusual - Dmitry Medvedev was sent with an international agenda, with international statements for the first time in all these four years, during which there was a difficult conflict with Ukraine, continues with Syria? What kind of set of reasons has developed, which pushes him there and there was such a need to imagine it as a representative of the Russian Federation?
Valery Khomyakov: Apparently, the Kremlin decided to calculate that it would be nice to increase the status of our Russian representation on this very serious, curious and very interesting discussion site. The main factor, it seems to me, is not that it sounds from Medvedev’s lips, from the lips of other wonderful people who are responsible for foreign policy in Europe, but, it seems to me, taking into account many circumstances - this is that Dmitry Medvedev is more comfortable, more entrance to all restrictions on the establishment that is present there. The main thing, it seems to me, will not occur in the stands and not in open negotiations, but on the sidelines. Vladimir Putin, of course, is not suitable, Lavrov, obviously, is also for many circumstances, and Dmitry Medvedev, who is still considered a liberal in Europe, apparently, remembers his all sorts of statements on this subject, he seems to me, for the Kremlin inhabitants seemed more convenient for the Kremlin. Apparently, they will feel the mood. The main thing is that this is clear, the abolition of sanctions. Our official media are clinging to every statement on this subject of any insignificant European politician. Someone will say, some deputy minister of economics of some small country and immediately begin to strengthen it. Therefore, this is disturbed, the Russian leadership worries, apparently, this is one of the main reasons why Medvedev is and why they were not limited to bay. And about Putin it is clear why he did not go there.
Elena Rykovtseva: Correctly I understand you that still life pressed, that they still have a need, are they trying to establish any bridges?
Valery Khomyakov: Life is not sugar - this has already become understandable to the Kremlin people, not to mention ordinary citizens who tremble, going to the store and seeing prices.
Elena Rykovtseva: With the figure of Medvedev, do they associate the possible mitigation of Western policy against Russia?
Valery Khomyakov: It may be so thought. Now the main thing is not this, but to understand the alignment, who is more loyal to Russia, who can and on what grounds can go to a decrease in sanctions, at least abandon sectoral sanctions that have seriously hit our economy and it still hurts all that is still painful. Therefore, it seems to me that this is the first. The second is to find their supporters on this part and try to organize a certain campaign that is possible from some political circles as much as possible, they are very different in the West. Therefore, Medvedev here is a convenient figure.
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