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Dmitry Medvedev’s interview with the Spanish mass media is published

President will keep ignoring the non-systemic opposition

Dmitry Medvedev meets with part of the president’s top hundred

The next meeting with other representatives won’t take place soon

Dmitry Medvedev says it is necessary to make the anti-crisis plan understandable to everybody, not just the government

Dmitry Medvedev will continue criticizing the government provoking a new wave of rumors about split in the tandem

The Supreme Court rules that the Prosecutor General is the highest instance on all HR issues for prosecutors and investigators

Yury Chaika

Alexander Bastrykin

Without changing law there will be no serious redistribution of authority between the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Investigation Committee

Yury Luzhkov speaks in support of Lyudmila Maikova

Oleg Sviridenko

Anton Ivanov

Maikova will have to leave her post anyway

Alexander Misharin is appointed chief of the industry and infrastructure department of the government staff

Igor Levitin, Sergey Sobyanin

Sobyanin’s positions in the government staff will keep strengthening

Viktor Risovanny is appointed deputy chief of the federal fisheries agency

Interests of the Baltic and Far Eastern clans in the agency will be more balanced

Spin doctor Gleb Pavlovsky’s interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets

Rumors about the tandem’s soon breakup and possibility of a coup d’état will keep circulating

Chief of armaments of the Russian armed forces, Vladimir Popovkin, announces the rearmament plan for 2009

Anatoly Serdyukov

Plans will be implemented but next year rearmament parameters will drop

The first meeting of Pravoe Delo’s supreme council

Co-chairpersons will keep debating the party’s strategic goals