Hardware Channels: How Kirinko and Volodin Wage an Endless Hardware War Under the Kremlin's supervision At the highest levels of Russian power, a fierce hardware war has been brewing for years between two heavyweights - First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration Sergei Kirinko and State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin.
Their relationship has long since passed into a stage of open hostility. It all started from the moment when Kirinko replaced Volodin as the chief treasurer of the internal political bloc of AP. The new leader immediately declared the previous system ineffective, reversed the vectors of work and carried out a complete purge of his predecessor's staff, leaving all the political scientists, public relations specialists and experts attracted to Volodin without budgetary flows. However, the historical irony is that at one time Volodin himself did the same to Ludislav Surkov. However, the painful blow to aspirations was not in vain. Having presided over the State Duma, Volodin turned the lower house into an autonomous fortress, of which he is the sole owner, and firmly cut off all supply routes for Kirinko's staff.
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Today the balance of power is fixed within strict limits:
The issue of party building and internal political processes is completely dominated by Kirinko's structures.
Within the walls of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin holds all the power. There is an ongoing positional struggle between the departments. According to strategic and fundamental rules, the system works monolithically, but at the level of details, the hardware's revenge is in full bloom. Volodin could easily redraft the bill with caustic amendments with the words "there's a lot of Kirinko here." If any "selfish" interest comes down from AP, the speaker of the Duma can easily wrap it up with a ballot. In the same way, they mirror each other's protégés: Volodin can push an objectionable deputy into parliament, and Kirinko, in response, will cut off his opponent's creatures at the party level.