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
Dmitry Medvedev says decline in defense expenses will not affect the army’s modernization and social sphere
Under the conditions of crisis the budget sequester will be substantial and will gradually affect all budget items
The list of the President’s top hundred men is announced
Dmitry Medvedev
There will be selective appointments from this list
Alexey Gordeyev and Alexander Kozlov are nominated to governor of Voronezh and Orlov regions respectively
Candidatures will be approved without problems; Gordeyev’s team will have to leave the agriculture ministry
Just Russia deputies introduce a bill on assigning job quotas to graduates of higher educational establishments
Just Russia will keep voicing populist initiatives
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
Supreme Court deputy chair Alexander Karpov resigns
Vyacheslav Lebedev
Lebedev’s positions will remain stable in the near future
Valery Zorkin reelected head of the Constitutional Court
Valery Zorkin
Zorkin will retain his post in the next three years
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
Justice ministry registers Pravoe Delo
Pravoe Delo will not carry out systemic activities with potential voters in the next few months
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
Alexey Makushkin is appointed chief of the government’s analytical center
Makushkin may lean on siloviki and Sergey Chemezov like his predecessor
Alexander Chernogorov is appointed deputy agriculture minister
The probability that Chernogorov will be promoted to minister is low
Deputy PM Alexander Zhukov commissions the interior ministry and federal tax service to organize deportation of jobless migrants
Alexander Zhukov
Zhukov will not increase his media activity and may leave his post in the next few months
State Duma passes law on abolishing election deposit at elections of all levels
United Russia, Communist Party
This measure will make it possible to finally limit the number of election participants at all levels to representatives of several leading parties
Bill on giving back the right to file criminal cases against special individuals to the Prosecutor General’s Office is submitted to State Duma
Yury Chaika
Alexander Bastrykin
Bill is likely to be rejected or its content will be diluted
Actions in support of the domestic automobile industry and increase in taxes on imported cars
United Russia
These events will somewhat neutralize unfavorable information background that emerged after protest actions in the Far East
Federation Council head Sergey Mironov suggests that collection of signatures by all registered parties should be abolished at all elections
Sergey Mironov
Proposal may be approved but in the form of UR’s initiative
Igor Chuyan is appointed head of the federal service for alcohol market regulations
Alexey Gordeyev
Anatoly Serdyukov, Mikhail Mokretsov
Chuyan’s rivals may receive influential posts in the service
Pravoe Delo submits documents to the justice ministry for registration
Pravoe Delo
The party will be registered without hindrances
Vladimir Piligin, head of the State Duma committee for constitutional law, says the minimal number of members of a party to be registered by the justice ministry will be decreased just by 5,000 to 10,000 members so far
Deputies will not further decrease the figure unless they are reminded to do so by top authorities
Justice minister Alexander Konovalov says among judges there should be those who came not only from law enforcement bodies but also lawyers and human rights activists
These words will remain pia desideria in the near term perspective
Staff cleansing in the St. Petersburg branch of the communist party is completed
Gennady Zyuganov
Ivan Melnikov
St. Petersburg’s branch of the party may weaken noticeably
Court rejects suit on finding a decision to dissolve SPS party invalid
Pravoe Delo
If this decision is appealed against, it will be dismissed
Dmitry Medvedev says he has proposed amendments to the Civil Procedure Code broadening possibilities of the Prosecutor General’s Office in civil process
Yury Chaika
This authority will not become serious compensation for the loss of investigatory functions
Changes in the procedure of agreeing regulatory legal acts worked out by government bodies
This will result in emergence of additional conflict field between deputy PMs
Gov’t decides to establish a national company for developing the grain market
Viktor Zubkov, Alexey Gordeyev
Deputy PM and agriculture minister will agree on parity control over the company
Dmitry Medvedev’s decree on establishing the federal service for regulating the alcohol market
It is quite possible that agriculture ministry and federal tax service will try to gain control over the new entity
Boris Kovalchuk retires as director of national projects department of the government staff
The department is likely to be disbanded or enlarged
Vladimir Shamakhov retires as deputy chief of the government staff
Andrey Belyaninov
It will be easier for Belyaninov to lobby interests of his entity at the government staff level
Teimuraz Bolloyev and Anatoly Grebenyuk are appointed deputy heads of Olympstroy state corporation
Dmitry Kozak
Viktor Kolodyazhny
Teimuraz Bolloyev will become an éminence grise in Olympstroy
Andrey Kazmin retires as head of Russian Post
Andrey Kazmin, Alla Aleshkina
It is quite possible that law enforcement agencies will try to find out reasons of sharp deterioration of Svyaz Bank’s financial standing
Oleg Mitvol is elected head of Green Alternative public movement
Oleg Mitvol
Vladimir Kirillov
Mitvol will try to oppose the new organization to the Public Council of Rosprirodnadzor
Alexander Fedorov is appointed deputy justice minister
Viktor Cherkesov
The new deputy minister will be mediator in alliance between Viktor Cherkesov and Alexander Konovalov
Staff reshuffle in the Russian emergencies ministry
This reshuffle is technical and it will not affect Sergey Shoigu’s control over the ministry
Vladimir Tokarev is appointed deputy minister of regional development
This post is temporary for Tokarev; he may join organizations belonging to Gennady Timchenko or Bank Rossiya
