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There will be no standoff In Russia most likely the state structure will change 2008-08-07 / Olga Viktorovna Kryshtanovskaya – doctor of sociological sciences, head of the Center for the study of elites at the Institute of sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Today it is considered good form to assert that we do not have an elite. I will stipulate right from the start: using this term, I am referring to the ruling group in society. It may be good or it may be bad, but it does exist. We – a subdivision of the Institute of sociology of the RAS – have been researching this group since the year 1989 in monitoring mode. The latest changes, associated with the election of a new president of the country, have practically not impacted on either the Federation Council or the State Duma, therefore our latest research was focused on the bureaucracy of the federal level. That is, what was being spoken of was the government and the administration of the president.