The power and its competence

Grigory Pasko, journalist

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There’s a strange organization in Russia. It’s called the «Public chamber». In the image of this strange organization, the Putinite power has created for itself the likeness of representatives of civil society: the benefit from this likeness is nil, but then, should the occasion present itself, one can always tell Western leaders that in Russia too there is democracy.

And the members of this strange organization, at least the greater part of them, are rather strange as well – few people in the country have ever heard of them. But, apparently, they were able in some way to catch the eye of the curator of this «chamber from the Kremlin», advisor to Putin himself and «gray cardinal Vladislav Surkov».