Posted on 06/11/2005 12:16:41 PM PDT by BringBackMyHUAC
Currently VCIOM is the largest research organisation is Russia, engaging in socio-economic, socio-political and marketing research through mass polling, omnibuses, expert and elite studies, in-depth interviews and focus groups and other methods. The Centre provides a full technological cycle of research work - from planning research programmes to presenting analytical reports.
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Definition of Terms, Identification of Players
Political consultants in Russia generally have broader job descriptions than their counterparts in the West. Most of the firms engaged in “political technologies” in Russia offer a wide range of services from conducting focus groups and organizing opinion polling to producing paid political advertisements and designing media strategies for campaigns.
Also involved in the mix can be a variety of "dirty" and "not-so-dirty" tricks ranging from digging up dirt on rival candidates and organizing the transportation to the polls for elderly voters to registering "double" candidates (people with the same or similar name as a rival) to issuing counterfeit campaign materials under a rival candidate's name. In a practice that is regarded as strictly unethical in Western democracies, political consultants are often hired specifically to work against a particular candidate....
In addition to the term “tekhnolog” in Russian, there is also the moniker “prshchik.” This term generally has a negative connotation and is used to describe people who conduct “black public relations.” The terms "black public relations" and "dirty technologies" are used more or less interchangeably to describe a broad range of dirty tricks from very simple ones, such as pasting leaflets of opposing candidates on voters' car windshields with hard-to-remove glue to more complex and elaborate hoaxes such as creating websites containing compromising materials about rival candidates. Few consultants ever refer to themselves as "prshchiks," although the term is much bandied about in the press...
Who are the consultants? Many leaders of the political consulting profession spring from the Moscow-based, Soviet-era political elite. They were part of that section of the intelligentsia that performed "services," such as political consulting and image making for the elite.11 A random sampling of the backgrounds of some of the best known figures shows how some members of the old elite adapted themselves quickly to the new world of elections and multiple political parties.
Take, for example, Igor Mintusov and Yekaterina Yegorova, the founders of the Nikkolo M consulting agency. They worked at the Moscow-based USA and Canada Institute. In the 1980s, Yegorova reportedly prepared background information about American political leaders for the Communist Party apparatus.12 In 1995, Yegorova and Mintusov reportedly established a relationship with Aleksandr Kazakov, who was then the head of the presidential administration’s territorial department. This relationship resulted in the firm gaining important clients and contracts.13 Although Nikkolo M was founded in 1992, Mintusov did not officially resign from the Institute until 1996. Kazakov went on to become first deputy head of the presidential staff under Anatolii Chubais. And it was Chubais, who ran Russian President Boris Yeltsin's successful 1996 presidential campaign.
Another leader in the field, Vyacheslav Nikonov, the head of the Politika foundation, is also former member of the Communist Party elite and grandson of former Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Nikonov was a top speechwriter at the Central Committee in the late 1980s where he wrote speeches for Mikhail Gorbachev and former KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov.14 He founded the Politika foundation in 1993 together with Yeltsin-era adviser Georgii Satarov, who now heads the INDEM foundation. The same year, he was elected to the State Duma on the Party of Unity and Accord party list. In 1996, he was co-chairman of Yeltsin's re-election committee. He is also the author of "From Eisenhower to Nixon: From the History of the Republican Party" and "The Republicans: From Nixon to Reagan," among other books and articles.
Aleksei Koshmarov is another former member of the Soviet Communist Party elite who spent the bulk of his early professional life working at the Moscow-based Committee for Youth Organizations.15 Koshmarov likes to joke that his firm is close to the Kremlin, because Novokom’s office is located just a few kilometers from Red Square.
In an interview in 2002, he admitted that he maintains close ties to deputy head of the presidential administration Aleksandr Abramov, ties that were established during their Komsomol days.16 He became general director of Novokom in 1992. According to "Moskovskie novosti," Koshmarov boasted at a conference in 2000 that he created the populist image of the notoriously anti-Semitic former Krasnodar Krai Governor Nikolai Kondratenko.
Koshmarov played a leading role in the successful 1996 campaign of Vladimir Yakovlev to become governor of St. Petersburg, and in 1998 he spearheaded a highly controversial effort to elect a pro-Yakovlev majority to the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, an effort that included a wide range of dirty tricks including the widespread use of "double" candidates. He remains an adviser to Yakovlev. He also headed the unsuccessful 1996 campaign of Volgograd Mayor Yurii Chekhov to become governor of Volgograd Oblast.
Communist Nikolai Maksyuta won that race, despite the Kremlin's support of Chekhov. Image-Contact President Aleksei Sitnikov -- who is younger than Nikonov, Yegorova, or Mintusov -- hails from Novosibirsk and was initially a bit of an outsider in Moscow politics. But he was able to capitalize on his ties with fellow Novosibirsk native and former Railways Minister Nikolai Aksenenko. In an interview, Sitnikov acknowledged having a warm personal relationship with Aksenenko and said that “one of the great events in his life was helping [Aksenenko] to create the Unity party.” However, Sitnikov insisted that his firm was awarded business and contracts based on its merit, noting that it won a contract to reorganize the Railways Ministry together with two Western firms in an open tender and after Aksenenko had left office.
Sitnikov founded Image-Contact in 1989 and, according to his website, the company has conducted more than 300 election campaigns at all levels, including unspecified participation in the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections. Some of Sitnikov's colleagues have alleged that he enjoyed close ties with former Kremlin powerbroker Boris Berezovskii, but Sitnikov denies this. However, he admits that he organized Berezovskii’s winning campaign for the Duma in Karachaevo-Cherkessia in 1999 and that he has met with the tycoon in London during business trips, in addition to his role in the creation of Unity, which is widely seen as a Berezovskii inspired and funded Project-17.
While many leading political consultants got their starts in the business around the beginning of competitive elections in 1989, the profession itself is considered to have really begun in Russia in 1993. “Before [seven or eight years ago], there was no profession such as political technology," Dianov said, "and no one knew what public relations was or they thought it was some kind of swear word.”18 It was not until 1993 that the application of so-called “election technologies” became widespread.19
...Many political consultancies grew more through informal, personal contacts than through more formal means of seeking new clients such as advertising. For example, Novokom's Koshmarov explained that his firm got its first big campaign -- representing Yakovlev in the 1996 St. Petersburg gubernatorial race -- through a referral by “friends.” 20 Later business flowed to the firm from its good contacts with Aleksandr Abramov, deputy head of the presidential administration under Putin. Sitnikov explained that he was hired to manage Sergei Darkin’s successful 2001 campaign for the governorship of Primorskii Krai because he was an old acquaintance of Darkin’s from their days as leaders in the Komsomol. 21
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The communist BIOS on my computer is always causing me trouble on startup.
LOL!
In other news: the second apple has fallen on the head of Sir Isaac Newton. "This confirms the law of gravity", said the prominent scientist.
2x2 still equals 4. What else would you expect?
WCIOM is basically operated by Putin administration. It used to be a real polling organization, until a few years ago when Putin became unhappy with the results of their polls. Putin then invented an excuse to take over the organization, all the polling people left WCIOM in protest and Putin administration stuffed WCIOM with their loyalists, most of which did not have any polling experience.
For a real Russian pollster, check levada-center.ru. (English version, unfortunately, has been under construction, for at least a year.) That's the organization founded by people who were forced out of WCIOM.
Ive talked to Russians about Americas image in the world and the media. In a way they think much like we do here. Conservative Russians recognize the falsehoods and liberal Russians wallow in them.
I asked one of my friends if they were asked what they think of America. He said he couldn't answer because there were expected answers and what he really believed.
TEll that to Begala Soros Carville Moore Baldwin, and any of the other members of F A G.
I would expect America's expert Russia-watchers to bring these connections to the attention of the American people. Something is very, very wrong in Russia, as the bios of Russia's pollers, and the bios of Russia's political consultants in post #1, very clearly suggest.
==Putin then invented an excuse to take over the organization, all the polling people left WCIOM in protest and Putin administration stuffed WCIOM with their loyalists
Typical. It's funny how Putin loyalists are almost always connected to the Communist Party Apparatus/KGB/FSB.
By the way, his OPEN SOCIETY group in Russia is pushing their own brand of "democracy" and using their own brand of "SOROS APPROVED" polls in order to take over Russian politics.
Hey, the MOVE-ON group here in the USA is another "fine" example of soros-approved democracy at work. Oh, how they hate President Bush just like they hate President Putin. HMMMMMMMMMmm, why is that????
Just maybe the Russians, like so many conservative Americans, DO NOT WANT SOROS-STYLE DEMOCRACY... the kind that lines his pocket$ so he can continue to fund and push the gay agenda, create anti-Christian groups, legalize all drugs, all child porn, all sexual prostitution and drive down the age of consent for sex( hetero and homo, to about age 5). Plus, the creepy guy wants to punish and abolish the conservative politics.
Soros ... the evil that just keeps popping-up all over the world.
WATCH FOR IT!!
It seems the Communist elite control just about everything of any importance in "Russia." ==
It is bull.. The influence of commies in today Russia is near to zero.
Also involved in the mix can be a variety of "dirty" and "not-so-dirty" tricks ranging from digging up dirt on rival candidates and organizing the transportation to the polls for elderly voters to registering "double" candidates (people with the same or similar name as a rival) to issuing counterfeit campaign materials under a rival candidate's name.==
This thing was invented during Eltsin times by liberal advisers. It is rather new russian capitalism in action.
Take, for example, Igor Mintusov and Yekaterina Yegorova, the founders of the Nikkolo M consulting agency. They worked at the Moscow-based USA and Canada Institute.==
Usa and Canada Institute is the one member of Russian Academy of Science.
I would expect America's expert Russia-watchers to bring these connections to the attention of the American people. Something is very, very wrong in Russia, as the bios of Russia's pollers, and the bios of Russia's political consultants in post #1, very clearly suggest.==
Are you Anatolii Golytsin II?
He brought to attention of american people the "perestroika" deception before you. Now you with same:)).
Remember many known figures in Russia was something years ago. (Not only in Russia. Look to president of Poland or Checkia for example).
Since russian people themselves rejected commies and USSR hence some of russian elite who did from above that developed thier rejection way before 1991 so when they were someone in soviet administration.
Thier positions in soviets helped them to decrease soviet power from within.
That is what happened. Soviet Union was destroyed from with in. By Gorbachev's then Eltsin's teams with support of russian majority.
Those teamers of Gorby and Eltsin of cause was figures in soviet administration firstly. Since Gorby and Eltsin themselves was top figures in same soviet administration. Thier posture and power in there was thier weapon in struggle.
SO we cann't rebuke people who struggled against commie power that they were someone in soviet administration many years ago.
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