Keep Us Strong WikiLeaks logo

Currently released so far... 97115 / 251,287

Articles

Browse latest releases

Browse by creation date

Browse by origin

A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Browse by tag

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
ETRD EAGR ETTC EAID ECON EFIN ECIN EINV ELAB EAIR ENRG EPET EWWT ECPS EIND EMIN ELTN EC ETMIN EUC EZ ET ELECTIONS ENVR EU EUN EG EINT ER ECONOMICS ES EMS ENIV EEB EN ECE ECOSOC EK ENVIRONMENT EFIS EI EWT ENGRD ECPSN EXIM EIAD ERIN ECPC EDEV ENGY ECTRD EPA ESTH ECCT EINVECON ENGR ERTD EUR EAP EWWC ELTD EL EXIMOPIC EXTERNAL ETRDEC ESCAP ECO EGAD ELNT ECONOMIC ENV ETRN EIAR EUMEM ENRGPARMOTRASENVKGHGPGOVECONTSPLEAID EREL ECOM ECONETRDEAGRJA ETCC ETRG ECONOMY EMED ETR ENERG EITC EFINOECD EURM EENG ERA EXPORT ENRD ECONEINVETRDEFINELABETRDKTDBPGOVOPIC EGEN EBRD EVIN ETRAD ECOWAS EFTA ECONETRDBESPAR EGOVSY EPIN EID ECONENRG EDRC ESENV ETT EB ENER ELTNSNAR ECHEVARRIA ETRC EPIT EDUC ESA EFI ENRGY ESCI EE EAIDXMXAXBXFFR EETC ECIP EIAID EIVN EBEXP ESTN EING EGOV ETRA EPETEIND ELAN ETRDGK EAIDRW ETRDEINVECINPGOVCS EPEC ENVI ELN EAG EPCS EPRT EPTED ETRB EUM EAIDS EFIC EFINECONEAIDUNGAGM EAIDAR ESF EIDN ELAM EDU EV EAIDAF ECN EDA EXBS EINTECPS ENRGTRGYETRDBEXPBTIOSZ EPREL EAC EINVEFIN ETA EAGER EINDIR ECA ECLAC ELAP EITI EUCOM ECONEFINETRDPGOVEAGRPTERKTFNKCRMEAID EARG ELDIN EINVKSCA ENNP EFINECONCS EFINTS ECCP ETC EAIRASECCASCID EINN ETRP EAIDNI EFQ ECOQKPKO EGPHUM EBUD ECONEINVEFINPGOVIZ ENERGY ELB EINDETRD EMI ECONEFIN EIB EURN ETRDEINVTINTCS EIN EFIM ETIO ELAINE EMN EATO EWTR EIPR EINVETC ETTD ETDR EIQ ECONCS EPPD ENRGIZ EISL ESPINOSA ELEC EAIG ESLCO EUREM ENTG ERD EINVECONSENVCSJA EEPET EUNCH ECINECONCS ETRO ETRDECONWTOCS ECUN EFND EPECO EAIRECONRP ERGR ETRDPGOV ECPN ENRGMO EPWR EET EAIS EAGRE EDUARDO EAGRRP EAIDPHUMPRELUG EICN ECONQH EVN EGHG ELBR EINF EAIDHO EENV ETEX ERNG ED
KMDR KPAO KPKO KJUS KCRM KGHG KFRD KWMN KDEM KTFN KHIV KGIC KIDE KSCA KNNP KHUM KIPR KSUM KISL KIRF KCOR KRCM KPAL KWBG KN KS KOMC KSEP KFLU KPWR KTIA KSEO KMPI KHLS KICC KSTH KMCA KVPR KPRM KE KU KZ KFLO KSAF KTIP KTEX KBCT KOCI KOLY KOR KAWC KACT KUNR KTDB KSTC KLIG KSKN KNN KCFE KCIP KGHA KHDP KPOW KUNC KDRL KV KPREL KCRS KPOL KRVC KRIM KGIT KWIR KT KIRC KOMO KRFD KUWAIT KG KFIN KSCI KTFIN KFTN KGOV KPRV KSAC KGIV KCRIM KPIR KSOC KBIO KW KGLB KMWN KPO KFSC KSEAO KSTCPL KSI KPRP KREC KFPC KUNH KCSA KMRS KNDP KR KICCPUR KPPAO KCSY KTBT KCIS KNEP KFRDCVISCMGTCASCKOCIASECPHUMSMIGEG KNNB KGCC KINR KPOP KMFO KENV KNAR KVIR KDRG KDMR KFCE KNAO KDEN KGCN KICA KIMMITT KMCC KLFU KMSG KSEC KUM KCUL KMNP KSMT KCOM KOMCSG KSPR KPMI KRAD KIND KCRP KAUST KWAWC KTER KCHG KRDP KPAS KITA KTSC KPAOPREL KWGB KIRP KJUST KMIG KLAB KTFR KSEI KSTT KAPO KSTS KLSO KWNN KPOA KHSA KNPP KPAONZ KBTS KWWW KY KJRE KPAOKMDRKE KCRCM KSCS KWMNCI KESO KWUN KPLS KIIP KEDEM KPAOY KRIF KGICKS KREF KTRD KFRDSOCIRO KTAO KJU KWMNPHUMPRELKPAOZW KEN KO KNEI KEMR KKIV KEAI KWAC KRCIM KWCI KFIU KWIC KCORR KOMS KNNO KPAI KBWG KTTB KTBD KTIALG KILS KFEM KTDM KESS KNUC KPA KOMCCO KCEM KRCS KWBGSY KNPPIS KNNPMNUC KWN KERG KLTN KALM KCCP KSUMPHUM KREL KGH KLIP KTLA KAWK KWMM KVRP KVRC KAID KSLG KDEMK KX KIF KNPR KCFC KFTFN KTFM KPDD KCERS KMOC KDEMAF KMEPI KEMS KDRM KEPREL KBTR KEDU KNP KIRL KNNR KMPT KISLPINR KTPN KA KJUSTH KPIN KDEV KTDD KAKA KFRP KWNM KTSD KINL KJUSKUNR KWWMN KECF KWBC KPRO KVBL KOM KFRDKIRFCVISCMGTKOCIASECPHUMSMIGEG KEDM KFLD KLPM KRGY KNNF KICR KIFR KM KWMNCS KAWS KLAP KPAK KDDG KCGC KID KNSD KMPF KPFO KDP KCMR KRMS KNPT KNNNP KTIAPARM KDTB KNUP KPGOV KNAP KNNC KUK KSRE KREISLER KIVP KQ KTIAEUN KPALAOIS KRM KISLAO KWM KFLOA
PHUM PINR PTER PGOV PREL PREF PL PM PHSA PE PARM PINS PK PUNE PO PALESTINIAN PU PBTS PROP PTBS POL POLI PA PGOVZI POLMIL POLITICAL PARTIES POLM PD POLITICS POLICY PAS PMIL PINT PNAT PV PKO PPOL PERSONS PING PBIO PH PETR PARMS PRES PCON PETERS PRELBR PT PLAB PP PAK PDEM PKPA PSOCI PF PLO PTERM PJUS PSOE PELOSI PROPERTY PGOVPREL PARP PRL PNIR PHUMKPAL PG PREZ PGIC PBOV PAO PKK PROV PHSAK PHUMPREL PROTECTION PGOVBL PSI PRELPK PGOVENRG PUM PRELKPKO PATTY PSOC PRIVATIZATION PRELSP PGOVEAIDUKNOSWGMHUCANLLHFRSPITNZ PMIG PREC PAIGH PROG PSHA PARK PETER POG PHUS PPREL PS PTERPREL PRELPGOV POV PKPO PGOVECON POUS PGOVPRELPHUMPREFSMIGELABEAIDKCRMKWMN PWBG PMAR PREM PAR PNR PRELPGOVEAIDECONEINVBEXPSCULOIIPBTIO PARMIR PGOVGM PHUH PARTM PN PRE PTE PY POLUN PPEL PDOV PGOVSOCI PIRF PGOVPM PBST PRELEVU PGOR PBTSRU PRM PRELKPAOIZ PGVO PERL PGOC PAGR PMIN PHUMR PVIP PPD PGV PRAM PINL PKPAL PTERE PGOF PINO PHAS PODC PRHUM PHUMA PREO PPA PEPFAR PGO PRGOV PAC PRESL PORG PKFK PEPR PRELP PREFA PNG PGOVPHUMKPAO PRELECON PINOCHET PFOR PGOVLO PHUMBA PRELC PREK PHUME PHJM POLINT PGOVPZ PGOVKCRM PGOVE PHALANAGE PARTY PECON PEACE PROCESS PLN PRELSW PAHO PEDRO PRELA PASS PPAO PGPV PNUM PCUL PGGV PSA PGOVSMIGKCRMKWMNPHUMCVISKFRDCA PGIV PRFE POGOV PEL PBT PAMQ PINF PSEPC POSTS PHUMPGOV PVOV PHSAPREL PROLIFERATION PENA PRELTBIOBA PIN PRELL PGOVPTER PHAM PHYTRP PTEL PTERPGOV PHARM PROTESTS PRELAF PKBL PRELKPAO PKNP PARMP PHUML PFOV PERM PUOS PRELGOV PHUMPTER PARAGRAPH PERURENA PBTSEWWT PCI PETROL PINSO PINSCE PQL PEREZ PBS

Browse by classification

Community resources

courage is contagious

Viewing cable 07MOSCOW3399, RUSSIAN OPPOSITION FACES MORE FRACTURE

If you are new to these pages, please read an introduction on the structure of a cable as well as how to discuss them with others. See also the FAQs

Understanding cables
Every cable message consists of three parts:
  • The top box shows each cables unique reference number, when and by whom it originally was sent, and what its initial classification was.
  • The middle box contains the header information that is associated with the cable. It includes information about the receiver(s) as well as a general subject.
  • The bottom box presents the body of the cable. The opening can contain a more specific subject, references to other cables (browse by origin to find them) or additional comment. This is followed by the main contents of the cable: a summary, a collection of specific topics and a comment section.
To understand the justification used for the classification of each cable, please use this WikiSource article as reference.

Discussing cables
If you find meaningful or important information in a cable, please link directly to its unique reference number. Linking to a specific paragraph in the body of a cable is also possible by copying the appropriate link (to be found at theparagraph symbol). Please mark messages for social networking services like Twitter with the hash tags #cablegate and a hash containing the reference ID e.g. #07MOSCOW3399.
Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07MOSCOW3399 2007-07-11 12:50 2011-02-18 00:00 CONFIDENTIAL Embassy Moscow
Appears in these articles:
http://rusrep.ru/article/2010/12/05/drugayarossiya/
VZCZCXRO9413
RR RUEHDBU
DE RUEHMO #3399/01 1921250
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
R 111250Z JUL 07
FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 2002
INFO RUCNCIS/CIS COLLECTIVE
RUEHXD/MOSCOW POLITICAL COLLECTIVE
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 MOSCOW 003399 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/07/2017 
TAGS: PGOV PHUM PINR RS
SUBJECT: RUSSIAN OPPOSITION FACES MORE FRACTURE 
 
1. (C) Summary: Other Russia's second annual conference was 
n...

C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 MOSCOW 003399 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/07/2017 TAGS: PGOV PHUM PINR RS
1. (C) Summary: Other Russia's second annual conference was notable more for its non-participants and divisions than for the results it produced. Following on the heels of former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov's decision to leave the coalition, several leading opposition figures chose not to participate. Although Other Russia delegates adopted a political platform and agreed to select an opposition presidential candidate in October, political commentators reacted skeptically to Other Russia's call for fielding candidates in the December Duma elections. The weekend gathering drew the usual Kremlin-backed protestors. A year after its formation, Other Russia's "big tent" has shrunk. While the coalition remains united against Putin, its inability to coalesce around a positive political agenda and the dominance of National Bolshevik leader Eduard Limonov has left it more marginalized. End Summary.
2. (U) The two-day Other Russia conference, held in Moscow July 7-8, was intended as a show of unity among opposition parties, groups and movements and designed to build on events of the past year, including the recent "successful" protest marches in Moscow and St. Petersburg. It featured discussion of the coalition's platform and procedures for selecting a unity presidential candidate through a primary process this fall. Participants included coalition leader Garry Kasparov and Eduard Limonov, founder of the banned National Bolshevik Party. Poloff, who attended the conference, was among three dozen participants in attendance on day one, which focused on the content of the platform and procedures for selecting the unity candidate. Day two of the conference, which focused on the work of the past year and strategies for victory, included the participation of regional delegates, increasing the size of the conference by a couple hundred.
3. (C) Instead of highlighting Other Russia's unity, the conference was notable for its no-shows. Four days prior to the conference, former Prime Minister Kasyanov formally split from Other Russia, insisting (in an implicit swipe at former Central Bank Governor Grashchenko) that "only responsible political organizations should name presidential candidates." Moscow Helsinki Group's Lyudmilla Alekseyeva, INDEM's Georgiy Satarov, and All-Russian Civil Congress leader Alexander Auzan, who had been closely linked to Other Russia, also did not participate in the conference. They attributed their no-show to the split between Kasparov and Kasyanov, as well as the inability of Other Russia to produce a united opposition. Public statements by Alekseyeva and Satarov left their future involvement with Other Russia unclear. Likewise, independent Duma Deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov continued his on-again, off-again relationship with Other Russia, boycotting the conference amid rumors he is seeking a place on SPS' party list. In public statements, he objected to taking part in a coalition that included nationalists and the radical left.
4. (C) According to former Prime Minister Kasyanov's advisor, Oleg Buklemishev, Kasyanov has completely parted from Kasparov and the two are not in contact. While Ekho Moskviy Editor Aleksey Venediktov attributed Kasyanov's departure from Other Russia to his fear of precipitating corruption charges that go beyond the recent investigation into the privatization of a dacha, Buklemishev insisted it was solely due to Kasyanov's frustration with Kasparov's "unrealistic" electoral game plan and refusal to unite around a presidential candidate now. As far as Kasyanov is concerned, Other Russia "no longer exists." However, Buklemishev did not rule out the possibility of a civil society brokered compromise and rebirth of an opposition coalition.
5. (U) Other Russia continued to face harassment by pro-Kremlin groups. Political theater was on full display over the course of the conference. Conference participants on day-one faced members of the pro-Kremlin youth groups "Young Guard" and "Young Russia" who picketed in front of the Holiday Inn where the conference was held. The protestors shouted that the coalition was funded by Boris Berezovsky. At the end of day-one about 50 homeless men and women were bused to the conference site in a mocking show of support for Other MOSCOW 00003399 002 OF 002 Russia. Conference participants on the second day were met by more Pro-Kremlin demonstrators whose shouts that Other Russia was dead with Kasyanov's departure were accompanied by an orchestra playing funeral dirges.
6. (U) During the conference, Other Russia adopted its political platform, and agreed to select a unity opposition presidential candidate in October. The 10-point platform contained non-controversial items that address those issues on which members of the coalition agree, such as limiting the president's constitutional powers, direct elections of governors and Federation Council members, and prohibiting control of mass media by the government or big business. The points also included more radical economic planks such as revising the privatization programs of the 1990s, providing compensation to those who lost savings and investments during the 1990s, and investing energy export revenues in pensions, while also supporting non-controversial calls for an increase in the birth rate and investment in research and technology. The platform made a pitch for Russia to lead a new union of post-Soviet states to address their common interests. Calls to include points directly addressing such issues as corruption, national security and military reform went unheeded as Kasparov urged members to keep points of conflict out of the platform and focus on points of agreement.
7. (U) For the first time, Other Russia leaders discussed the possibility of fielding candidates for the December Duma elections, in defiance of the group's unregistered status as a political party. Limonov, whose National Bolsheviks have been banned as a political party since the Yeltsin administration for its extremist ideology, urged Other Russia participants to participate in the elections as a tactic to promote conflict with the authorities and to illustrate the limits to the political space in Putin's Russia.
8. (C) Mainstream political observers have reacted to the Other Russia conference with predictions of its imminent demise, emphasizing the limits of Kasparov's leadership and the difficulty of maintaining cohesion among the disparate political participants. Many have highlighted the growing role of Limonov, whose self-styled Trotskyist mien and popularity among youthful radicals alienates the Russian mainstream and whose calls for "red" politics fall flat among a populace largely focused on political stability and economic advancement. Venediktov, noted that Kasparov was attempting to create a "protest generation," modeled on 1960s movements in the US and France, which would shift the focus away from Limonov's National Bolsheviks. However, he agreed that the thinning Other Russia ranks deepened the perception that the opposition movement was isolated on the political fringes.
9. (C) The absence of many key opposition figures in the conference reveals the weakness of Other Russia's big tent approach. While the coalition was united by its opposition to Putin and the actions of the Kremlin, its members have been unable to coalesce around a positive vision for the future and a process for moving forward. This ideological and strategic incompatibility and the fact that most members do not conform with the views of Limonov, a key member of the coalition, will make it easier for the Kremlin to paint Other Russia in extremist tones. While Other Russia maintains the ability to launch street protests and to provoke GOR reaction and overreaction, it has not developed into a vehicle to challenge Russians' support for Putin. BURNS