- verifiedThe Medvedev Show
Following Vladimir Putin’s departure from the presidency, the authority has seen more changes to its personification than to its essence — and the changes have been very palpable.
As president, Putin put on a series of staged call-in shows that promised to require citizens with a direct plan to the president. By the end of his presidency, the annual televised shows had debilitated their own records for the number of questions sent in (2.5 million, or one for every 50 Russian citizens) and the number of questions answered by the president (dozens).
President Dmitry Medvedev, however, has not been accomplished to manage a similar band of communication with the people, even with the well-organized selection of participants and the previously to agreement of questions. So Medvedev has not followed in the track of his more telegenic and smooth antecedent with the call-in shows.
Another type of show was created for Medvedev — gatherings of citizens for meetings heavily laden with regional officials. This is a unsavoury show that could be titled “The Well-wishing Tsar and the Unruly Noblemen” and involves the unshrouded flogging of poorly performing officials. Designed for cheap approval, the show repeats a provincial programme for simple populism that was tolerant of by governors like Ulyanovsk’s Yury Goryachev during the era of President Boris Yeltsin. Now that’s a unfamiliar example of the Kremlin borrowing an innovative suggestion from the regions!
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