No conditions for Putin’s cooperation with irreconcilable opposition – Peskov

(Interfax – MOSCOW. April 15, 2013) Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov does not see any conditions for the cooperation of the head of state with what is known as the irreconcilable opposition so far.

“Largely this depends on the extent to which the irreconcilable opposition will be able to generate a more or less constructive agenda. Unfortunately, so far we cannot witness that,” he said on a Sunday night current events show on Russia 1 channel.

“You can shout but shout about something meaningful. It is senseless to simply shout out of emotions,” he said.

Peskov disagreed with the opinion that the so-called disappointed city people are opposed to the president. “I am not an adept of the theory that Putin has some kind of a conflict with affluent dissatisfied Muscovites. This is not an essential conflict. These are sooner relations that sometimes have a positive note, and sometimes a caps lock tone,” Peskov said.

Putin “is the president of these angered Muscovites and the Russians who support him and those who probably don’t support him,” he said.