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The
Chuvash regional branch of Yabloko and the Chuvash Organisational
Committee of the Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) decide
to create a coalition of democratic forces
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On July 27, 2000, a meeting was convened,
attended by Evgeni Lin Chairman of
the regional branch of Yabloko, Deputy Chairmen Valeri Makarevsky,
Moisei
Polyakov and member of the Political Council Nikolai Solovyov;
and by the
co-Chairmen of the Chuvash Organisational Committee of the
SPS, Ramil
Khairutdinov, Chairman of the regional branch of the "Democratic
Choice of
Russia" and Chairman of the regional branch of the
"New Force" movement
Vladimir Vasiliev.
Participants of the meeting adopted a principled
decision on the creation of
a coalition of Yabloko and the SPS in Chuvashia. This agreement
resulted
from a requirement to consolidate the democratic liberal
forces of
Chuvashia, pool efforts to consolidate in Chuvashia basic
common values - a
civil society, market economy and law-governed state.The
closest goals of
the coalition will involve participation in the by-elections
to the State
Council of the Chuvash Republic and the elections of the
heads of local
self-government and representative authorities of local
self-government,
including the elections of the mayors of Cheboksari and
Novocherkassk in
December 2000.
SPS and Yabloko believe that it is necessary
to propose a single list of
candidates for the posts of deputies of the State Council
of the Chuvash
Republic, representative authoritites of local self-government
and the heads
of local self-governement. In addition, Yabloko and the
SPS will coordinate
their actions in a number of other issues, including the
discussion and
adoption of the Constitution of the Chuvash Republic.The
participants of the
meeting have decided that it is necessary to draw up within
a fortnight
preliminary lists of candidates, develop principles governing
the formation
of the coordination body of the coalition and draft a joint
plan of actions.
Based on the reports of the Press Service
of the Chuvash regional branch
ofYabloko
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Sergei
Ivanenko: meeting between Putin and oligarchs unlikely to
influence the development of relations between business
and the authorities
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The Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction,
Sergei Ivanenko, thinks that the
meeting between the President of Russia Vladimir Putin and
representatives
of large-scale business on July 28, 2000, was convened as
part of a
consultative process and was virtually a working meeting.
Ivanenko said that
this was a "useful discussion" for both sides.
At the same time, in an interview with journalists
on July 28, 2000, he
expressed his opinion that it was highly unlikely that the
meeting would
have a serious influence on future relations between business
and the
authorities. He added that the idea of establishing a council
of
entrepreneurs under the RF Government of the RF was nothing
new. Such
structures had existed in the past. However, added Ivanenko,
the members of
such councils "did not meet regularly and virtually
failed to resolve any
problems."
With respect to the "most significant
declaration made by the President,
that there would be no revisions to privatisation results,"
Ivanenko noted
that "such declarations have been made weekly on a
regular basis and this
arouses concern". He added: "All this demonstrates
that there is a problem."
Based on Interfax reports.
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Sergei
Ivanenko: the State Council will become one of the consultative
structures under the President
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Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko faction,
Sergei Ivanenko, thinks that the
State Council can only be a consultative body under the
President of the
Russian Federation: "In general I do not attach great
importance to this
structure," said Ivanenko in an interview with journalists
on July 28, 2000.
He also pointed out to journalists that at present there
are "multiple
councils, and the State Council will probably become another
one".
At the same time Ivanenko thinks that the
presence of governors as members
of the State Council may elevate the status of this body:
"It will probably
be more elevated than other councils of this type."
In his opinion the
governors - "and this issue was preliminary discussed
as such" -will join
this council.
At the same time Ivanenko ruled out the
possibility of the transfer of some
of the functions of the Federation Council to the competence
of the State
Council, stressing: "This would be unconstitutional."
He thinks that the
Yabloko faction was unlikely to conduct broad discussions
about the
formation of the State Council at the faction’s meetings,
noting: "Each of
our deputies has a possibility to speak out on this issue,
something which
we will probably do.
Based on Interfax reports.
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