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The U.S. winner-takes-all is subject to gridlock (probably a good thing) 
where House and/or Sanate is almost evenly divided. The new Russian 
election system could introduce what that idiot Nader refused to 
do---some horse-trading of votes for incremental change in laws from 
whichever larger political party the swing-vote affiliates with.  
Drastic change in laws without such horese-trading, occurs only during 
and in the close aftermath of great national catastrophe's such as the 
1929 Great Depression, or under the leadership of someone like the 
charismatic Teddy Roosevelt who created the National Park system and an 
environmental protection constituency.


 Russian administration to set up three-party political system

11/10/2004 13:07

*The two-party system, the US model, is considered the best and most 
efficient political structure of the society*

It has recently transpired that the Russian administration is currently 
working on the establishment of a new liberal party. The project is said 
to complete the formation of the three-party system, which also includes 
United Russia and Fatherland parties.

Regional divisions of the new political association have been reportedly 
established in 57 Russian regions. The key figures of the new liberal 
party have been exposed too: the Minister for Economic Development and 
Trade, German Gref, the Finance Minister, Aleksey Kudrin and the 
chairman of the Russian Audit Chamber, Sergey Stepashin. The Fatherland 
party will take up the role of the leftist group, the new liberal party 
will be the rightist faction and the United Russia party will be in the 
center. United Russia members will have very good opportunities for 
political maneuvers, cooperating either with the Fatherland or with 
liberals, according to necessities.

Russian analysts believe that the new plan of the Kremlin administration 
is not bad at all. It perfectly fits the statement released by the 
Russian president on 13 September 2004 at the session of the Cabinet of 
Ministers. Vladimir Putin said at the meeting with the ministers that 
national parties would be a part of the anti-terrorist struggle. In 
addition to it, the two-party system, the American model, is considered 
the best and most efficient political structure of the society.

Another message from Russian media outlets also proved the fact of 
complicated procedures underway in the Russian political life. Eight 
Russian political associations have reportedly announced their intention 
to set up the Coordinating board and establish a joint party. The 
information about that was released from vice speaker Sergey Baburin, 
the Fatherland faction. State Duma deputy Viktor Cherepkov believes that 
the party would be formed to create the "open and constructive 
opposition." It is noteworthy that the chairman of the Duma faction 
Fatherland, Dmitry Rogozin, did not take part in the work of the session.

The situation is becoming quite ambiguous: Sergey Baburin obviously 
tries to win the support of his partner in the bloc, to be on equal 
terms with Dmitry Rogozin. In the event Rogozin's party declines such 
cooperation, Sergey Baburin and his association People's Will will have 
to move on alone, which will inevitably weaken and split the country's 
patriotic coalition.

If the Fatherland party fits the scenario of Russia's new political 
picture, it brings up the idea that Sergey Baburin does not act 
incidentally. His actions are aimed at restraining Dmitry Rogozin's 
ambition. Furthermore, it seems that the so-called "manual 
administration" in the field of the party construction is gathering 
pace. However, the immature state of the Russian democracy, the absence 
of political parties' links with public associations makes such policy 
extremely minor in the scale of such a huge country as Russi