Dmitry Medvedev submits a set of anti-corruption bills to the State Duma
Dmitry Medvedev
The bills will be approved but their implementation may be sabotaged on a regional level
Information about the beginning of reforms in the General Staff is posted
Anatoly Serdyukov
The minister’s reforms may provoke unification of discontented generals around new centers, e.g. the paradise group
Arrest of a high-ranking officer of the railway troops, Yevgeny Kornishin
Anatoly Serdyukov
It may somewhat neutralize activities of generals’ Fronde
Economy minister Elvira Nabiullina says about undesirability of merger of some entities subordinate to the ministry on the basis of the Federal Agency for Managing State Property
Elvira Nabiullina
Nabiullina’s proposal may be approved
Prosecutor General’s Office proposes to stop dissemination of extremism on the Internet
Yury Chaika
Prosecutor General’s Office and the interior ministry may launch closer cooperation on fighting extremism
Prosecutor General’s Office proposes to give it back the right to initiate criminal cases against individuals with special status
Yury Chaika
Prosecutor General’s Office may get this right
Main provisions of the 2020 Strategy are approved
Elvira Nabiullina
Document will be approved but changes in the financial and economic situation in the country will require adjustments to it
Representatives of three right parties hold a joint press conference
SPS
In case of its fast registration, the new party has chances to have its representatives in regional legislatures following the spring elections
Deputy PM Igor Sechin is nominated to Inter RAO UES board
Igor Sechin
Radical siloviki will establish control over state assets in the electrical energy sector
Deputy prosecutor general Viktor Grin and State Duma security committee head Vladimir Vasilyev propose to reestablish the ministry for ethnic affairs
This topic will be promoted by the prosecutor general’s office in the light of fight against extremism
Information is posted that Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree broadening the staff and authority of the presidential property management department
Vladimir Kozhin
President will continue stressing continuity of the policy of his predecessor
Dmitry Medvedev meets with representatives of the public
Dmitry Medvedev
The course at renewing an informal public agreement will continue
Dmitry Medvedev meets with businessmen
Dmitry Medvedev
Businessmen will accept new conditions of coexistence with state authorities
Yury Vorobyev is appointed deputy speaker of the Federation Council
United Russia
Sergey Mironov
Yury Vorobyev will become UR’s agent of influence in the Federation Council’s leadership
Alexander Torshin is appointed first deputy speaker of the Federation Council
Sergey Mironov
UR, Yury Vorobyev
Torshin is to neutralize Yury Vorobyev’s activities
Dmitry Medvedev signs decree on establishing Oboronservis JSC
Anatoly Serdyukov
Sizeable financial flows in the defense sphere will be withdrawn from under control of generals
Audit Chamber reports that it has submitted its plan of activities to fight corruption to the presidential administration
Sergey Stepashin
Yury Chaika
Sergey Stepashin will keep on substantiating the necessity of the AC’s leading role in fighting graft
Sergey Stepashin is included in the presidential council for Olympics preparations
Sergey Stepashin
Yury Chaika
Audit Chamber will intensify its efforts aimed at controlling expenditure of preparations for the Sochi Olympics
Traffic police (GIBDD) authorities become active
On the threshold of Rashid Nurgaliyev’s possible dismissal leaders of all key entities in the ministry will be trying to demonstrate their administrative activity
Federal Air Transportation Agency head Yevgeny Bachurin says he is being forced to retire
Bachurin is likely to leave his post
Rosprirodnadzor deputy head Oleg Mitvol sends a letter to natural resources minister Yury Trutnev asking to stop procedure of his dismissal
Oleg Mitvol
Vladimir Kirillov
Mitvol may become head of the public council of Rosprirodnadzor
The government is proposed to appoint long-term financial planning department director Oksana Sergiyenko deputy finance minister
Alexey Kudrin
Sergiyenko’s candidature will be approved; however, this will not result in redistribution of administrative influence in the ministry
Meetings of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev with Valdai discussion club members
Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev
Tandem will continue showing coordinated approach
Chemezov-Usmanov alliance wins struggle for Udokan field
Sergey Chemezov, Alisher Usmanov
Vladimir Yakunin, Viktor Vekselberg
Rostekhnologii may later sell its stake in JV
Alexander Smirny is appointed deputy interior minister
Mikhail Sukhodolsky
Mikhail Sukhodolsky is likely to become more active in struggle for ministerial post
Dmitry Medvedev signs decree on reorganizing the interior ministry’s structure
Yevgeny Shkolov
Sergey Meshcheryakov
Shkolov may head the interior ministry after Rashid Nurgaliyev leaves
Information is posted about soon amalgamation of the prosecutor general’s office and justice ministry
Alexander Konovalov
Yury Chaika
It is possible that merger will not happen but Yury Chaika will lose his post
Alexey Drobyshevsky is appointed acting head of the defense ministry’s information and PR department instead of Ilshat Baichurin
Anatoly Serdyukov
Serdyukov may keep on mopping up his team, which will save him from reproaches for his desire to appoint his protégés to better posts
Vyacheslav Fetisov is appointed senator representing the Primorsky Region
Vitaly Mutko
Vyacheslav Fetisov
Federal Agency for Physical Culture and Sports may be disbanded and its function will be transferred to the sports ministry
Decree on the federal agency for CIS affairs is signed
Only after the agency’s head is appointed it will be possible to define who has lost and who has won
Vladimir Miklushevsky and Alexander Khlunov are appointed deputy education ministers
Andrey Fursenko, Dmitry Livanov
Miklushevsky will continue Livanov’s course of offensive at the positions of the academic community
UR State Duma deputy Viktor Grishin is elected Rector of Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics
United Russia
The policy of gaining control over the university community and turning it from critic to partner of state authorities will continue
Acting natural resources minister Semyon Levi signs order on dismissing Rosprirodnadzor deputy head Oleg Mitvol
Vladimir Kirillov, Yury Trutnev
Oleg Mitvol, Igor Sechin
It is possible that Mitvol will be reinstated
Replacement of Vladimir Putin with Dmitry Medvedev as head of the council for developing physical culture and sports, top level sports, preparing and holding XXII Winter Olympics and XI Winter Paralympics in Sochi in 2014
Vladimir Putin will de facto continue heading this body
Regional development minister Dmitry Kozak proposes to change procedure of the Investment Fund’s functioning
Dmitry Kozak is speeding up administrative expansion entering into conflict with the economic development ministry
Alexey Kudrin and Elvira Nabiullina continue their polemics
Their struggle will continue with varied success
Decree on distributing responsibilities between deputies of economic development minister is signed
Chances that the ministry will not be disbanded are increasing
Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s interview with The Moscow Times, in which he supported Dmitry Medvedev’s actions in Southern Caucasus
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
The ex-mogul will keep on showing reverences to state authorities counting on his release in October
Former press secretary of Nashi movement, Ivan Mostovich, is appointed head of the PR and information department of the Central Election Commission
The process of recruiting former pro-Kremlin movement members into state bodies will continue
Meeting of the State Council chaired by president Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Medvedev
Russian president will intensify attempts to consolidate governors around him
Vladimir Putin’s interview with Rossiya TV channel
Vladimir Putin
Duumvirate members will keep on repeating previously voiced theses on Russia’s justified actions and showing lack of fears of confrontation with the West
Rosprirodnadzor head Vladimir Kirillov asks natural resources minister Yury Trutnev to dismiss Oleg Mitvol
Vladimir Kirillov
Oleg Mitvol
Mitvol may be dismissed but not earlier than the government reshuffle in autumn
Igor Shuvalov is appointed head of the organizing committee for preparations for the APEC summit in Vladivostok
Igor Shuvalov
Oleg Safonov, Viktor Ivanov
It is not ruled out that Oleg Safonov’s influence on distributing funds for preparing the summit will decrease substantially
Information is posted about Yury Sharandin’s possible appointment as head of the constitutional department of the Federation Council staff
Sharandin’s candidature is likely to be approved
A meeting in Moscow of presidential deputy envoys to federal districts regarding strike movement
The autumn wave of strikes will not be of political character in general
Rostekhnadzor head Konstantin Pulikovsky is dismissed
Yury Trutnev, Vladimir Kirillov
Konstantin Pulikovsky
Process of transferring authority in the sphere of ecological oversight from Rostekhnadzor to Rosprirodnadzor will be accelerated
Prosecutor general Yury Chaika visits anniversary meeting devoted to the beginning of functioning of the Investigation Committee
Yury Chaika, Alexander Bastrykin
Reconciliation between the prosecutor general’s office and investigation committee may happen
Information is posted that the prosecutor general’s office may become coordinator of struggle of power agencies against corruption
Yury Chaika
Without possibility to initiate criminal cases such functions will be fiction
Anti-monopoly service publishes initiatives aimed at toughening responsibility for violating anti-monopoly legislation
Igor Artemyev
Part of these initiatives will be supported by deputy PM Igor Sechin
Recognition of independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia
Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin
Ratings of president and prime minister will rise
Vladimir Putin’s interviews with CNN and ARD
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev will keep on developing similar theses in mass media
Dmitry Medvedev’s decree on establishing HR commission
Members of Vladimir Putin’s team will be mainly included in the president’s HR reserve
Official charges against Dmitry Dovgy, former head of the main investigation department of the Investigation Committee
Alexander Bastrykin
Yury Chaika
It is quite possible that Yury Chaika will lose his post this autumn
Alexander Romanchenko, department head of the Federal Subsoil Resource Use Agency, is interrogated by FSB
This fact is not an element of administrative pressure on the agency’s leaders and will not result in serious consequences
Sergey Mayev, head of the Federal Service for Defense Contracts, declares about revealing abuse of funds totaling more than 22bn rubles
Sergey Ivanov, Viktor Cherkesov
Anatoly Serdyukov
It is quite possible that Ivanov-Cherkesov tandem will try to turn Federal Agency for Procurement of Military and Special Equipment into a really functioning entity
Igor Sechin is appointed head of the government commission for fuel and energy sector
Igor Sechin
Gazprom
This appointment will not cardinally change administrative layout of forces in the Cabinet
Anton Ustinov is appointed secretary of the government commission for fuel and energy sector
Vladimir Ustinov, Igor Sechin
The core of radical siloviki will remain solid
Rumors about possible appointment of Anatoly Chubais to RCNT
Chubais’s allies are likely to be the source of such rumors that have little to do with reality
Oleg Sazonov is appointed head of the department of state regulation of domestic trade of the ministry of industry and trade
Viktor Khristenko
Alexey Gordeyev
Bill on trade will be cardinally revised
Vyacheslav Fetisov’s interview with Sport Express newspaper
Vyacheslav Fetisov
Leonid Tyagachev, Vitaly Mutko
Fetisov will continue publicly confront opponents
FC Zenit wins UEFA Super Cup
Vitaly Mutko
Vyacheslav Fetisov
Fetisov’s chances to retain his post this autumn will decrease substantially
Reforms in United Russia’s informational and propaganda bodies
UR
The party of power will increase informational and propaganda activities
Mikhail Khodorkovsky is denied parole
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the liberal revanche group
The oligarch’s possible appeal to the president for pardon is likely to be denied too
Vladimir Kulishov is appointed deputy head of FSB and national anti-terrorist committee
This appointment will not change administrative layout inside the entity
Establishment in the defense ministry of an organizing committee for preparing a founding conference of a new public All-Russian organization of veterans of the Russian armed forces (OOOV VS RF)
Dmitry Medvedev, Anatoly Serdyukov
Dmitry Medvedev’s supporters will continue attempts to broaden their influence on siloviki
Vladimir Putin accompanied by defense minister Anatoly Serdyukov visits hospitals where Russian pilots whose aircraft was brought down in Georgia are being treated
Vladimir Putin
Ex-president will keep on underlining his influence on security-related bodies
Federal drug control service head Viktor Ivanov becomes member of the national anti-terrorist committee
Viktor Ivanov
It possible that the verticals of the anti-terrorist and anti-drug committees will be combined
Dmitry Dovgiy, former officer of the investigation committee, arrested
Alexander Bastrykin
Yury Chaika
Struggle around reforms of the investigation bodies will sharpen
Stanislav Ananyev is appointed deputy minister of natural resources
Viktor Vekselberg
Ananyev will lobby interests of Vekselberg’s entities when reforming environmental taxes
Prosecutor’s office appeals against the court’s decision to disqualify Robert Dudley
Yury Chaika
Protest will be rejected
Valery Galchenko is appointed first deputy head of UR’s executive committee
Vyacheslav Volodin
This will possibly be followed by appointment of Radiy Khabirov in the presidential administration to supervise United Russia’s regional policies
Vladimir Putin’s statement regarding Mechel company
Igor Sechin, Sergey Chemezov
Igor Zyuzin
Rostekhnologii may attempt to take over this asset
Vladimir Putin inspects his first public reception office in Nizhny Novgorod
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin will continue establishing channels of direct communication with the population
Information is posted that presidential administration deputy chief Alexander Beglov will chair Almaz-Antei board of directors
Alexander Beglov
Viktor Ivanov
Rostekhnologii may start showing their interest in this asset
Energy minister Sergey Shmatko is appointed chair of Transneft board of directors
Sergey Shmatko, Bank Rossiya Group
This rotation is planned and it will not result in serious redistribution of spheres of influence
Two high ranking officers of the defense ministry are detained in Moscow
Anatoly Serdyukov
A new wave of cleansing on the middle level will start in the ministry
Information is posted that ground forces commander Alexey Maslov will soon be transferred to the post of Russia’s military envoy to NATO
Alexey Maslov
This rotation is possible not earlier than in several months
Some legislative initiatives of Just Russia are published
Just Russia
Just Russia will keep on trying to position itself as social-democratic party
Sergey Vasilyev is appointed chief of the federal registration service
Sergey Vasilyev, Vladimir Ustinov, Igor Sechin
Struggle around potential inclusion of the Federal Agency for Registering Real Estate, Federal Agency of Geodesy and Cartography and the Federal Registration Service into the Federal Agency for Managing State Property (FAUGI) will sharpen
Establishment of interdepartmental working group of the Prosecutor General’s Office on fighting inflation
Yury Chaika
This measure will help Chaika generate additional mass media interest
Alexander Shokhin, head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, criticizes Business Russia’s initiatives
Business Russia
Alexander Shokhin
Competition between two business unions will continue
Investigation Committee of the Prosecutor General’s Office files a criminal case against Sergey Ponomarev, head of the main center for special communications of the interior ministry
Alexander Bastrykin
Rashid Nurgaliyev
This move will not seriously affect Rashid Nurgaliyev’s positions
Dmitry Medvedev appoints three deputies of Investigation Committee head
Alexander Bastrykin
Radical security-related bloc (radical siloviki)
Positions of FSB in the entity will be weakening, but this will not lead to appointment of Dmitry Medvedev’s personal staff pool members to posts in the committee
Dismissal of Viktor Rykov, internal security department head of the Federal Drug Control Committee
Viktor Ivanov
Viktor Cherkesov, Alexander Bulbov
‘Cleansing’ of the committee from Viktor Cherkesov’s protégés will continue
Prosecutor General Yury Chaika issues order forbidding investigation of criminal case against members of the tender commission who elected housewife Irina Buksman a notary public in 2005
Yury Chaika
Alexander Bastrykin
This may trigger a scandal that may seriously undermine Yury Chaika’s position
Supreme Court Chairperson Alexander Lebedev says his entity is going to introduce a bill to simplify procedure of prosecuting persons of special status for prosecutors
Yury Chaika
If this bill is passed, Yury Chaika’s position will strengthen considerably
Dmitry Medvedev signs bill on public control in prisons into law
Dmitry Medvedev, Federal Prison Service
Vladimir Lukin
There is high possibility that Dmitry Medvedev will sign bill on advocacy into law if it is passed by parliament
Publication of quotes from finance minister Alexey Kudrin’s letter about certain aspects of formation of Rostekhnologii’s authorized capital
Alexey Kudrin
Sergey Chemezov
A decree on forming Rostekhnologii’s authorized capital signed by Dmitry Medvedev will be a compromise
Publication of provisions on the ministry of industry and trade and economic development ministry
Elvira Nabiullina
Viktor Khristenko
Debates over what should be considered customs and tariff regulation will sharpen in the near future
Dmitry Medvedev meets with Vladimir Lukin
Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Lukin
President will keep making high profile statements on the necessity to observe human and citizen rights and freedoms
Dmitry Medvedev commissions natural resources minister Yury Trutnev to revise industrial safety legislation
Yury Trutnev
Konstantin Pulikovsky
It is possible that authority of Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Atomic Inspection will be substantially cut
Andrey Isayev, deputy secretary of the United Russia General Council, says that inside party debates are better than those between parties
United Russia
Debates in the party’s regional branches will promote the already adopted decisions
