Modest Kolerov during the Round Table dedicated to the progress in implementing the president's message, Moscow, April, 13, 2001.
Photo: Sergey Mikheev
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Putin Appoints Velvet Counterrevolutionary
Russia’s leading political consultant Modest Kolerov was appointed Tuesday to head the recently established presidential department for interregional and cultural ties with foreign countries. Directly subordinate to Dmitry Medvedev, head of the president’s administration, the new department is expected to focus on the independent states created in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Kolerov, who is generally known as “the stainless antifascist and counterrevolutionary,” is expected to prevent Velvet Revolutions in the post-Soviet countries.
Russian President Vladimir Putin sealed the order on Kolerov’s appointment three weeks after setting up the department. The experts attribute this move to the Kremlin’s desire to avert Velvet Revolutions in the post-Soviet countries. The above supposition is backed up by the editorials regularly posted on the web-side of Kolerov’s Regnum news agency, which unmask “the enemies of Russia” in their attempts to initiate Velvet Revolutions in the adjacent countries and incubate plots to undermine sovereignty of Russia.
Modest Kolerov told Kommersant his “position on the geopolitical interests of Russia has been unchanged for many years.” “Russia must stand up for its interests in the post-Soviet territory,” Kolerov emphasized, adding “president’s administration has not peered into his political teeth,” he just turned out “a called-up professional.” Kolerov denied answering the direct question whether he was intending to oppose revolutions in the CIS countries, but pointed out that his weapon was just “culture and spirituality.” He also didn’t elaborate on the objectives set before his department.
Apart from Regnum, Kolerov also co-heads (with Gleb Pavlovsky, president of the Effective Policy Foundation and aid to the head of the president’s administration) the so-called project committee, which unites Russian political consultants. Commenting on the Kolerov’s appointment, Pavlovsky said the new department will have to “get around the problems in the post-Soviet territory, where the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has failed. Russia is to prove to the neighbors that it is bearing European values even to the greater extent than the European Union itself.” “In Russia, the West starts pre-empting the Elite, following the principle applied in the post-Soviet countries,” Pavlovsky added. “Today, the authorities are going into the real competition on this market. Modest will head the process.”
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Mar. 23, 2005
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