According to journalists, the Russian president during the next campaign will impose on voters a sense of duty towards the state and rely on the rhetoric of Russia’s “spiritual superiority” over other countries.
The Presidential Administration of Russia has created preliminary “ideological guidelines” by which Vladimir Putin will go to the presidential elections in 2024. Presumably, the pre-election campaign of the Kremlin president will be based on the “ideology of conservatism”. This was reported by the Russian edition of Meduza in an article dated March 17, citing sources.
According to journalists, in the upcoming elections, Vladimir Putin will position himself as a “guardian of traditional values.” The Kremlin also intends to bet on Russia’s rhetoric of “spiritual superiority” over other countries.
The source told the publication that the “conservative nationalist ideology” for the presidential election campaign of the President of the Russian Federation began at the end of May 2021, even before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At that time, the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation believed that the topic of “anti-Western conservatism” should replace the promotion of “Russian world” ideas in the discourse of officials and propagandists.
They wanted to impose on the Russians the image of Russia as a “state of its own”, which preserved traditions and had relatively little interaction with the outside world. At present, these ideas have been corrected and the theme of the “Russian world” to which many countries of the former USSR belong, according to the Kremlin, should become part of the concept of “state in itself”. “
Meduza’s interlocutors said that one of the ideological foundations of the campaign will be the developments in Russia’s DNA project. It is assumed that he will refer to some “value constants” that have allegedly been characteristic of Russia throughout its history. These include “community, a sense of duty and super-goals, existential stability, and the primacy of the intangible over the commercial.”
Russian officials believe that there will be no problems in the presidential elections in 2024 because society has a demand for conservatism.
Recall that on March 14, Vladimir Putin said that all current international problems began after the collapse of the USSR. According to him, the West is constantly trying to shake up Russia and expects the country to fall two or three weeks or a month after the sanctions are imposed.
On March 31, former Kremlin speechwriter Abbas Gallyamov said that Putin could cancel the presidential election because it would be difficult for him to gain Russian support without a victory over Ukraine. In this case, the head of the Kremlin can declare martial law in the country.
Source: Focus
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