YABLOKO’s leader Grigory Yavlinsky thinks that Cabinet reshuffles made by the President have not prospects.

These reshuffles are not indicative of any changes, vise versa they demonstrate preservation of the policy towards authoritarian rule in politics and creeping nationalization in the economy. This course has not prospects,” such an opinion of Grigory Yavlinsky was communicated to journalists by Eugenia Dillendorf, Press Secretary of Grigory Yavlinsky.

First deputy Head of the YABLOKO party Sergei Ivanenko, in his turn, told the journalists that he assessed the current Cabinet reshuffle as an indication by the present President of his possible successors at elections 2008.”

It will become clear in a year who out of these successors, whether Dmitry Medvedyev or Sergei Ivanov, can really become a successor,” said Ivanenko.

Translated by Olga Radayeva