Putin will become the State council’s chairman

At the seminar held on the 24th of November in “Noravank” foundation were discussed the latest shifts in RF government and the possible ways of development in Russia’s political system in the nearest future. According to the “Noravank” foundation expert Ruben Safrastyan, the appointment of the RF present Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov to the post of the Deputy Prime Minister, entrusting him with the functions of military-industrial complex curator, witnesses to the preservation of the same strategic line both in the domestic and foreign policy of the country. All the members of the seminar agreed that soon, on the eve of presidential elections 2008, the circle of politicians pretending to the high-ranking governmental positions in Russia will be more obvious.

Taking into account the importance attributed by the Putin administration to the realization of national projects financed by off-budget sources, during the meeting were expressed a few opinions concerning to S. Ivavnov’s potential role in the process of making reforms in Russian army and restructuring RF military-industrial complex. The foundation’s expert Vahagn Aglyan particularly stressed up that the transfer of RF military-industrial complex planning and controlling functions in S. Ivanov’s competence as well as the Defense Ministry’s real leverage in the sphere of arms export could make quite a good ground for the career growth of the Deputy Prime Minister in the future.

The director of “Noravank” foundation Gagik Harutyunyan expressed an opinion that the talks about V. Putin’s political successor have a somewhat conditional character. According to some evidences and objective suppositions, V. Putin is not going to leave great policy. Moreover, it seems that “he will not be allowed to go” by his companion-in arms. In this aspect one should consider not only the standard versions of electing Putin the president of Russia-Belarus union state but also the scenarios which have likeness with the Chinese ones but in reality they are quite Russian (in the context of “monarchic” or “communist” traditions): For example in 2008 Putin may be “elected” by Duma or “appointed” RF president (different mechanisms are possible) to the post of the State Council’s Chairman (of course, after preliminary constitutionalizatin and considerable enlargement of this structure’s powers).