President Putins Internet Conference.Part 1
March 6,2001
Moscow.
Интернет-конференция Президента России
6 марта 2001 года
Москва.
V. MALKIN (Strana.ru, Moscow): Mr Putin, first of all I would like to thank you for receiving us and for agreeing to answer our questions and questions from our readers. We have already received more than 16,000 questions, and they continue coming in real time. Of course, we will be able to ask only a small number of these questions. We have tried to select the most important questions that are of objective interest to the majority of our audience, but still, we will be unable to ask all the questions.
B. KENDALL (BBC, Moscow): The BBC and I personally are very glad to have the opportunity to take part in this event. We too have thousands of questions. And my first question perhaps reflects the concerns of many people. Jonathan Jones from Texas, US, asks: What is more important to you, democracy or legality? And I would like to add a question from Dmitry who is 16 years old and lives in Nizhny Novgorod, who writes as a representative of the new generation: I am very worried about the political situation in Russia. I know communism will never come back, but still some of your moves put me on my guard. What path should Russia follow today? VLADIMIR PUTIN: As regards the relationship or priorities in the sphere of democracy and law and order, it is a somewhat odd question because in its classical interpretation the word democracy is inseparable from legality. If society is guided by universally accepted rules set out in regulatory documents, which is another way of saying laws, and if these laws are passed according to democratic procedures, this is a democratic society. I think it is unprofitable and harmful to separate one from the other. So one of our main areas of effort is to improve the legal framework of the state and the judicial system in the country. As for the concerns some of our citizens or those who sympathise with our country abroad may have about the path our country will follow, I can say one thing. As long as I am the head of state we will adhere to democratic principles, we will develop the political structure of society, we will develop civil society, and we will seek to put the institutions of state under public control. We will do it steadfastly and consistently. And I am sure that the country simply has no alternative to democratic development and the market economy.
V. MALKIN (Strana.ru, Moscow): Here is indeed a frequently asked question. Before you the word reform was usually used in combination with the word economic, and one did not exist without the other. With you in office, there has been more talk and you have named it among your priorities about the reform of the state system as such. Does it mean that economic reform has been carried out or, on the contrary, that it is impossible to carry through without a reform of the system of state power?VLADIMIR PUTIN: If by reform one means a final transition from a planned to a market economy, in a sense that result has been achieved. But this is not the ultimate goal of reform. The ultimate goal is to ensure a high rate of economic development and on that basis growing prosperity of the people. A lot still needs to be done to put such a mechanism in place. But obviously it cannot be achieved without an effective state and its institutions. This is related to the question put by Bridget, namely: it is impossible in a democratic society to pass corresponding laws without a measure of consensus in society. Why has our economic reform been practically marking time for almost eight years? Because in a democratic society, when the countrys Parliament had to make the decision and there is no consensus in society and inside Parliament itself, no laws can be passed. That is why we were treading water. Both these spheres are closely interconnected. And it is impossible to achieve results in economic reform without transforming the way the state functions.
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