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Event |
Winning side |
Defeated side |
Development Outlooks |
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Dmitry Medvedev says decline in defense expenses will not affect the army’s modernization and social sphere |
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Under the conditions of crisis the budget sequester will be substantial and will gradually affect all budget items |
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The list of the President’s top hundred men is announced |
Dmitry Medvedev |
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There will be selective appointments from this list |
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Alexey Gordeyev and Alexander Kozlov are nominated to governor of Voronezh and Orlov regions respectively |
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Candidatures will be approved without problems; Gordeyev’s team will have to leave the agriculture ministry |
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Just Russia deputies introduce a bill on assigning job quotas to graduates of higher educational establishments |
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Just Russia will keep voicing populist initiatives |
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Higher qualification panel of judges rules to deprive Lyudmila Maikova, head of the federal arbitration court of the Moscow district, of the status of judge |
Anton Ivanov |
Siloviki |
Supreme Arbitration Court chair Anton Ivanov will accelerate the process of creating the arbitration vertical |
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Supreme Court deputy chair Alexander Karpov resigns |
Vyacheslav Lebedev |
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Lebedev’s positions will remain stable in the near future |
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Valery Zorkin reelected head of the Constitutional Court |
Valery Zorkin |
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Zorkin will retain his post in the next three years |
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Anastasia Rakova appointed head of the legal department of the government staff |
Sergey Sobyanin |
Igor Sechin |
Contrary to rumors, Sobyanin will not leave the Cabinet in the near future |
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Justice ministry registers Pravoe Delo |
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Pravoe Delo will not carry out systemic activities with potential voters in the next few months |
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Sergey Sobyanin is elected chairman of the board of directors of First Channel |
Sergey Sobyanin |
Sergey Naryshkin |
This change is technical and it will not result in changes in the channel’s policies |
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Alexey Makushkin is appointed chief of the government’s analytical center |
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Makushkin may lean on siloviki and Sergey Chemezov like his predecessor |
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Alexander Chernogorov is appointed deputy agriculture minister |
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The probability that Chernogorov will be promoted to minister is low |
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Deputy PM Alexander Zhukov commissions the interior ministry and federal tax service to organize deportation of jobless migrants |
Alexander Zhukov |
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Zhukov will not increase his media activity and may leave his post in the next few months |
