2018 Election: Yavlinsky on his meeting with Putin
2000. I ran in the presidential election and came in third. Literally a month later, Putin invited me and asked, "Tell me, if you became president, what would you do first?" And within three months, my proposals on the tax system, reserve funds, and budget structure were implemented.
At a meeting with voters in Pskov, I explained, using a specific example, that if millions of people in Russia support a certain policy, it is respected. But if only Zyuganov and Zhirinovsky exist in politics, then it is their policies that United Russia implements, because it has no policies of its own. That's the mechanism.