Paul Goble
Staunton, Jan. 24 – The Presidential Administration has announced a competition to get political strategists, increasing unneeded because of the declining number of competitive elections, to serve as social architects who can design special programs for particular socio-economic groups (социальныеархитекторы.рф/).
Some 3,000, driven either by economic necessity or a desire for preferment, have applied, and an initial group of five will be chosen and provided with special training (meduza.io/feature/2025/01/24/chem-zanyat-polittehnologov-v-strane-gde-pochti-ne-prohodyat-vybory-v-kremle-nashli-otvet-sotsialnymi-proektami-v-regionah).
According to Meduza, the Kremlin views this program as both a means to retain the loyalty of these people and a way of compiling an accurate list of them if things should develop so that competitive elections will emerge and political technologists will be needed to advise and guide campaigns.
But some observers fear that this effort will fall short both because of the very different skills needed for social architects and because of the reluctance of regional officials to spend large amounts of money on such people from Moscow. Thus, there may be a show of activity but very little in the way of a mass campaign.
Nonetheless, this is an intriguing example of the Kremlin’s recognition that its own policies have rendered some people no longer needed and that it must take steps to find them employment lest those left without their former work crystallize into groups supporting or even forming a new opposition.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Kremlin Launches Program to Transform Political Strategists into ‘Social Architects’
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