Yelena Rudneva Ever since falling out with president Putin, the once all-powerful businessman Boris Berezovsky has been talking about creating a new political movement to oppose the policies of the new powers that be in the Kremlin. Both politicians refused to join the URF party at its constitutional assembly held in Moscow last weekend, because of what they said were the undemocratic methods of the party's formation. Yushenkov and Golovlev met with Berezovsky at the end of last week in France. Sergei Yushenkov granted the following interview to Gazeta. We are going to create a political structure in opposition to the present-day political course on the basis of that organization.
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We do not propose anything new in ideology. We will gather support from the middle class. The structure and the process of creation of the new party will be based on principles which are absolutely different from those upon which the URF is based. Inside the URF there is super-strict party discipline, a strict hierarchy of party cadres, and the party s policy is aimed at implementing the Kremlin s policies. We do not agree with that, for today it is clear that for present-day authorities the interests of the state are a higher priority than those of the individual.