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Russian Press at a Glance, Thursday, July 21, 2011
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Russian Press at a Glance, Thursday, July 21, 2011http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110721/165308442.html 09:18 21/07/2011 A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
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Support for the Communists and the Liberal Democratic Party is growing at the expense of United Russia and A Just Russia, but the State Duma elections in December shouldn't shatter the current four-party configuration dominated by United Russia, according to a survey released Wednesday. (Moscow Times)
Police on Wednesday detained 19 opposition protesters who staged a sit-in on Lubyanskaya Ploshchad in support of fellow activist Taisia Osipova, on trial on murky drug dealing charges in Smolensk. (Moscow Times)
Apart from governors, Russian government ministers will lead regional United Russia party lists at the State Duma elections. (Kommersant)
ECONOMY & BUSINESS The Central Bank decided to withdraw the license of AMT Bank where deposits worth over 15 billion rubles ($533mn) were placed. (Kommersant, Vedomosti)
Investigators are trying in vain to establish who owns Domodedovo Airport. (Vedomosti, Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
The Kremlin demanded that state companies ensure the responsibility of board members for decisions they make. (Vedomosti, Kommersant)
SOCIETY The Dunaisky-66 tow boat captain, Alexander Yegorov, was questioned over his failure to come to the aid of the boat that sank on July 10 on the Volga River, killing over 100. Investigators say he should have tried to help passenger. (Kommersant)
A French company and an Israeli company could become involved in ensuring security at North Caucasus resorts. (Vedomosti)
IT Russia’s largest cell phone operators and Rostelecom have proposed that all 4G frequencies be given to them. (Kommersant) Choice is when Medvedev and Putin are both on the ballothttp://rt.com/politics/press/gazeta-ru/choice-medvedev-putin-ballot-percent/en/ Published: 21 July, 2011, 07:45 Edited: 21 July, 2011, 07:58 40 percent of people surveyed by the Levada Center would like to see both names on the ballot By Lev Makedonov Russians are confident that the current head of state, Dmitry Medvedev, and his predecessor, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, will both be listed on the presidential ballot in 2012. This is not a conscious choice: on one hand it is driven by protest sentiments, on the other by indifference, say sociologists. The number of Russians ready for “a third option” – Dmitry Medvedev and the current prime minister’s presidential nomination – is rising, show public opinion surveys conducted by the Levada Center. Forty percent of Russians have answered the question, “Who do you think will run in the presidential election?”, by saying it will be both Medvedev and Putin. One in four believes that Putin will run for president, and almost one in six believes Medvedev will put his name on the ballot for a second term. The same survey asked Russians about the people they would like to see as candidates. The difference in the results gives reason to conclude that Russians do not have a formalized political choice, Aleksey Grazhdankin, an expert with the Levada Center, told Gazeta.Ru. For example, only 15 percent of respondents would like seeing Medvedev’s name on the ballot, and 27 percent of respondents prefer Putin. The numbers did not change much since the last time a similar poll was conducted this past March. Compared to that period, Medvedev lost 3 percent, while Putin did not gain a single percentage point. The percentage of people opposed to the current tandem has reduced slightly, from 25 percent to 23 percent. Meanwhile, the share of those who would like both officials to run in the presidential election, or those who are indifferent, rose from 16 percent in March to 19 percent. The option in which both are nominated is, in the eyes of the Russian voters, regarded as their only opportunity to take part in determining the country’s fate, say sociologists. “The fact that this option is being proposed shows demand for real competition and the ability to be involved in making a decision regarding the next president,” explained Grazhdankin. “We cannot yet be talking about the feeling of being insulted, which arises when the public is not asked who will be the next president. The feeling of self-worth, including civil, is a value present only in narrow layers of post-Soviet Russian society.” A plebiscitary democracy which, according to the sociologist, repeats “the Soviet bloc of communists and non-party members” with United Russia and the All-Russian People’s Front, does not meet the Russians’ demands. Based on recent polls, 65 percent of citizens would not want to become members of the All-Russian People’s Front. “Political outlook assessments fluctuate within a measureable range – between 20 percent and 40 percent, which shows that Russians easily alter their perceptions, which is also shown by the previous surveys,” noted the Levada Center expert. According to him, respondents simply seized the proposed theoretical “third option.” Among them are those who are completely indifferent and those who do not want to see Putin or Medvedev become president. Talking strictly about the chances of Medvedev and Putin’s nomination, the desirable and the realistic (or the proposed) are practically the same in Russians’ eyes. Nearly 18 percent are confident Medvedev will be nominated. Meanwhile, 24 percent of respondents expressed confidence that Putin will try running for a third term. Meanwhile, respondents were and remain confident that the final decision is not theirs to make. Putin and Medvedev have already decided among themselves which one of them will run in the election, say 64 percent of Russian citizens. Twenty-five percent are confident of just that, and 39 percent believe that the president and the prime minister have “most likely” already decided on “the 2012 issue.” Only 3 percent firmly believe that the question has not yet been settled. The survey was held between June 23 and June 27 and included 1,600 Russians in 130 constituent territories in 45 regions. The statistical margin of error amounts to 3.4 percent. Kommersant: Polls foresee parliamentary majority for United Russia http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n255202 21 July 2011 | 08:25 | FOCUS News Agency Home / World Moscow. Next line-up of Russia’s State Duma will consists of the same four parties, which are represented there now, while the ruling United Russia would lose its constitutional majority, as stated in the latest poll results, presented by the Russian Public Opinion Research Centre. In fact, on the eve of the 2007 elections the sociologists again envisaged lower results for the ruling party. Experts think that the new election forecast will be again different from the real results, Kommersant writes. According to the poll, at the moment the United Russia enjoys 49% public support, while the Communist Party – 12%, followed by the Liberal Democratic Party – 7%, and the Just Russia Party – 5%. 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