Peak hour №1 01.08.1996 (1996)

Guest of the program: Igor Bunin, CEO of the Center for Political Technologies Foundation, political scientist.

Main topics and issues discussed in the studio: 1. Did your team develop the presidential election campaign? 2. About preparing the ideological program and working with the election headquarters. 3. Is it true that back in December your center considered B. Yeltsin's chances hopeless? 4. About the four main directions of the election program. 5. About the emergence of the concept of "monarch" as a status? 6. Were there any mistakes in the presidential campaign?

Who made them? 7. Is a communist revenge possible or is this their final defeat? 8. Was it possible to predict that B. Yeltsin's promises to end the war in Chechnya before the elections would not come true?

Who put impossible promises into the president's mouth? 9. How do you think the president's functions will change in his second term? 10. About the phenomenon of the president "falling asleep".

What is this connected with? 11. What are the chances of the State Duma of the Russian Federation being dissolved? 12. What do you know about the composition of the future government? 13. Who will we see among the candidates in the presidential elections in 2000? 14. What is more dangerous: making an incorrect forecast or making a forecast that will suit the customer? 15. What prevents forecasts from being made in Russia? 16. Has Russia become more predictable? 17. What advice would you give to the thousands of research workers at research institutes who have not received their salaries for months? 18. Do you advise launching small boats from a large ship and swimming out themselves? 19. Will A. Lebed be able to stay on Yeltsin's team?