Event

Winning side

Defeated side

Development Outlooks

Dmitry Medvedev’s interview with federal TV channels

Dmitry Medvedev

President and PM will keep demonstrating tandem’s solidity

Finance minister Alexey Kudrin says next year will be the hardest for Russia over the past nine years

Alexey Kudrin will continue making harsh statements but this will not result in his dismissal

Creation of white collars’ trade union

Andrey Isayev, Vladimir Medinsky

This body will not be able to fully control the target social group

Dmitry Medvedev meets with FSB head Alexander Bortnikov

Dmitry Medvedev

State leadership will keep showing determination to employ repressive means against non-systemic opposition

RCNT head Anatoly Chubais says authorities have successfully coped with the first wave of crisis

Anatoly Chubais

Anatoly Chubais will oppose non-systemic opposition on behalf of systemic liberals

Igor Yurgens is included in supreme board of Pravoe Delo party

Intertwining of interests of different elite groups will continue

Mikhail Kopeikin is appointed VEB deputy chair

Mikhail Kopeikin

Kopeikin may return to the government

Dmitry Medvedev commissions prosecutor general Yury Chika to supervise observance of anti-graft legislation

Prosecutor general’s office will be unable to efficiently do this without gaining back investigatory authority

Dmitry Medvedev signs decree on establishing the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography

Elvira Nabiullina, Igor Manylov, Pavel Krasheninnikov

Yury Petrov

FAUGI head will try to get part of authority of the new entity

Unsuccessful test launch of a Bulava ICBM

Information on next year launches will be classified again