Event

Winning side

Defeated side

Development Outlooks

Dmitry Medvedev attends a meeting of the board of the prosecutor general’s office

Dmitry Medvedev, Yury Chaika, Alexander Bastrykin

Ratio of authority of investigation committee and prosecutor general’s office will remain unchanged on the whole

Vladimir Putin meets with United Russia’s top figures

Vladimir Putin

PM will become less optimistic in evaluating prospects of overcoming the crisis

Vladimir Putin says settling social problems of the society is a priority amid the crisis

Vladimir Putin

Authorities will be implementing the medium-term (2-3 years) anti-crisis strategy

Vyacheslav Volodin is elected head of the state construction department at MSU

This post may become an alternate airfield for Volodin in case of dismissal

Deputy PM Sergey Ivanov says Russia will completely renew its strategic nuclear forces by 2020

The crisis will negatively influence the current insufficient modernization of the forces

Information is posted that the airborne forces will be reduced as a result of military reforms

Anatoly Serdyukov

This will decrease the Russian armed forces’ combat capacity and provoke additional discontent among officers

Dmitry Medvedev submits bills on parties that collect 5% to 7% of the vote and on reducing the number of signatures necessary to participate in elections, to State Duma

Dmitry Medvedev

The bills will be passed without considerable changes in the shortest time possible

Lawyer Igor Trunov is elected head of the Moscow branch of Pravoe Delo

Trunov is unlikely to be a competent manager

Plenum of the Central Committee of the communist party

Gennady Zyuganov

Zyuganov will continue mopping up the area around him

Regulations on Rosalcohol are approved

Rosalcohol

Agriculture and finance ministries, federal tax and tariff services

Rosalcohol will not face serious resistance in gaining control over the market