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Договор об общественном согласии 1994 года: политика административной консолидации гибридного режима власти
The article is devoted to the analyze of preparation and realization of the 1994 Agreement on Public Consent as an example of administrative consolidation of hybrid political regime in Russia in the mid-1990s. The Agreement on Public Consent was aimed to enhance the political regime established after the autumn crises of 1993 and adaptation of new Constitution as well as to make Russian federal and regional elites accept new political order. The mechanisms of administrative consolidation policy are researched on the case of the Presidential Executive Office as a key provider of preparation and realization of the Agreement. The Executive Office thoroughly controlled the process of preparation of the Agreement providing advantage for actors who were loyal to President. The Office staff achieved success in signing of the Agreement by a majority of political and public persons of that period due to lobbying the Agreement through apparatus and public canals. Concessions made in the process of negotiation did not change the main conditions in favor of parties. The Executive Office constructed a hierarchical net of Agreement participants providing key positions for the federal bureaucracy. The Consent Commission established within the Agreement in fact was formed on the base of the presidential apparatus. So, the majority of the Commission consisted of the actors accepting new political regime. The Commission itself became an instrument of communication between branches of power and elites at all. The Kremlin tries to impose on actors the model of behavior which was relevant to new political reality. The Commission was used to constrain an opposition by controlling an agenda of public consent. Nonetheless the process of consolidation was not completed so the Agreement fade off when the Chechen conflict and the crucial electoral campaigns began in 1995–1996.