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Press-archive
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Press release
on 20.01.2000
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The first defeat of
Vladimir Putin: 82% of listeners of the "Ekho Moskvi"
radio station would prefer Grigory Yavlinsky to Vladimir Putin.
Results of an interactive poll.
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The listeners, who called the "Ekho Moskvi" radio
station on January 20, 2000 to participate in a poll, indicated
that they would vote for Grigory Yavlinsky (82%) rather
than Vladimir Putin (18%), if the second round of the presidential
elections was held today.
The broadcast arguments of the listeners voting against
Putin can be summed up as follows: "he unleashed the
war in Chechnya", "he used military actions in
an electoral campaign", "he was and still is a
KGB man".
Yavlinsky was characterised as a politician capable of
withstanding the hasty actions of the authorities and really
extricate the country from the current crisis.
"This is the first poll, where Vladimir Putin has
suffered a large defeat." That is how Alexei Melnikov,
deputy of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma, reacted
to the results of the poll at the "Ekho Moskvi"
radio station. He added: "This is the initial reaction
of the politically active part of society to the union between
the pro-government and communist factions in the State Duma."
This telephone express-poll, conducted as part of the "Rikoshet"programme,
was on Thursday at midday: the radio station received 6,595
telephone calls.
"Ekho Moskvi" broadcasts its programmes to 40
cities in Russia, the CIS countries, the Baltic states and
the USA.
At the moment this poll can be found at the "Ekho
Moskvi" site.
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"Yabloko, Fatherland
- All Russia and the Union of Right-Wing Forces did not receive
any official reactionfrom
Vladimir Putin on the Duma conflict",
stated Sergei Ivanenko.
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The issue surrounding the actual reaction of the acting
President of the RF Vladimir Putin on the conflict in the
State Duma remains open.
"We have still not heard him (Vladimir Putin) speaking
about this directly: we have merely heard interpretations
from other people. But if he thinks that this is normal
or considers that this situation should remain unchanged
in future, then we shall draw our own conclusions”, the
Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko faction Sergei Ivanenko told
journalists on January 20, 2000.
As Grigory Yavlinsky was not present, Sergei Ivanenko
participated in the meeting of the Co-ordination Council
of the three factions today.
Fatherland – All Russia was represented by its leader
Evgeni Primakov and the Union of Right-Wing Forces was represented
by its leader Sergei Kiryenko. Sergei Ivanenko said that
the position adopted by the three factions should not be
interpreted as a desire to obtain some posts in the Duma
through this action: “Our protest is connected to the style
that has been engrained in the Duma, when the interests
of the parliamentary minority are totally neglected, the
style of dictatorship and neglect of the will of 18 million
voters who brought us to parliament”.
He also noted that the package of priority draft laws that
had been developed by the working group on the legislature
of the three factions would comprise five to seven documents.
One of them had already been agreed upon.
According to Ivanenko, it concerns amendments to the law
on the status of the deputy of the State Duma that envisage
a “reduction of the level of deputy’s immunity and elimination
of benefits and privileges”.
Asking how the three factions are going to submit their
draft laws if they continue the boycott of Duma meetings,
Sergei Ivanenko said that there is a certain procedure for
introducing draft laws, and that any deputy can do it. This
procedure does not stipulate personal participation in the
Duma meeting by the deputies.
Based on Interfax reports.
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