Analyst View: Reaction to President Medvedev's address

Analyst View: Reaction to President Medvedev's address

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev called on Thursday for extensive remodel of Russia's political system, perplexing to damp protesters who have staged a biggest demonstrations given Vladimir Putin rose to energy 12 years ago.

Following is greeting to a comments he done in his final state of a republic residence to both houses of parliament.

VLADIMIR RYZHKOV, A LEADER OF OPPOSITION GROUP PARNAS

"It is an answer to a (the protests), though it is not enough, it is half-hearted. The categorical direct of Bolotnaya (Square, where a protests took place) was to throw a choosing formula and call for new elections to be conducted according to new rules. Instead, he is perplexing to safety a deceptive Duma. This will not be supposed by multitude and will not be supposed by those on Prospekt Sakharov (where a antithesis skeleton a subsequent criticism on Saturday).

ELENA PANFILOVA, TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL

"I would contend that mass vigour from multitude has worked."

"The protests are a solitary reason for a authorities to dramatically change a rhetoric. Nothing would have altered in a final month if a protests had not happened. For example, there was no speak about domestic remodel a month ago."

STANISLAV BELKOVSKY, POLITICAL ANALYST

"This is a Kremlin's greeting to Bolotnaya Square. The Kremlin understands that a active members of a domestic category of prepared people no longer support a stream authorities and a stream domestic system, though in my opinion, it is all feign and an try to speak pided any care of critical domestic questions, to pull courtesy pided from them.

"All this was required to legitimize a formula of a Dec 4 choosing and a entrance presidential election, and to make a active apportionment of Russian multitude forget about how deceptive these processes are. It is an conscious distortion and it is misguiding.

But though it is good. It repeats a stairs taken by Mikhail Gorbachev during a finish of a 1980s. Gorbachev afterwards attempted to tweak a complement to save it, though we can't get toothpaste behind in a tube. Any benefaction from Gorbachev done his management blur and increasing final for democratization. This means that we have entered a date of Perestroika-2 and no Putin recession will happen. The complement is decomposing. They are frantically perplexing to find ways to safety it, though these pell-mell measures only brings it closer to a end."

ILYA YASHIN, A LEADER OF THE "SOLIDARITY" MOVEMENT

"The presidential election is now function and not one genuine antithesis claimant has been registered. If a authorities severely wanted change, they would also revoke a series of signatures indispensable for a election. Society will not swallow their line that there will be normal and satisfactory elections in 6 years.

ALEXEI MUKHIN, DIRECTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR POLITICAL ANALYSIS

The debate was not dictated for a far-reaching public, it was dictated for one person, Vladimir Putin... His debate was a pierce to stay inside a straight of energy combined by Vladimir Putin and he done it transparent he wants to play an active component in Putin's new team.

YEVGENY MINCHENKO, DIRECTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL ANALYSIS

"I consider a comments are dictated to alleviate adult a people who went to Bolotnaya Square and are display adult in other protests around a nation to tell them: 'We hear you'. That's wonderful, however, we would all like to hear some-more petrify details. Unfortunately these announcements of Medvedev per democratization - we don't know how they'll occur or when."

MARIA LIPMAN, CARNEGIE MOSCOW CENTER

"It looked a bit absurd with a boss who had deserted his authorised legitimate right to run for a second tenure articulate about his prophesy and his skeleton for Russia's growth for as prolonged as 10 years and democratization."

"Confronted with mass protests and with a decrease in popularity, a care realizes that a standing quo is not an choice any longer and if it's not a standing quo afterwards possibly of dual ways is accessible - to moment down or open adult and there has been no denote given a protests that a supervision is prepared for a crackdown. On opening up, we have seen some justification of liberalization."

(reporting by Thomas Grove, Maria Tsvetkova, Denis Dyomkin, Daria Korsunskaya)

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