After Delyagin's appointment as
Kasyanov's assistant to Prime Minister in 2002, Kommersant recalled his statement about President
Vladimir Putin, made earlier on Chekist Day.: "The problem is not even that we are ruled by Stalin, but that we are ruled by a very small Stalin who is not even able to strategize and decide where he wants to lead the country.". The profile publication Financial Russia noted in 2002 the strange appointment of Delyagin as
Kasyanov's as Last week it became known that economist Mikhail Delyagin has been appointed Mikhail Kasyanov's assistant. The event seemed to be an ordinary one, but it caused a slight sensation among Delyagin's colleagues for two reasons. Firstly, everyone knows that Delyagin strongly disagreed with the economic course of Kasyanov's cabinet, and there are probably no accusations that Delyagin would not have had time to publicly express against the government[66]. Secondly, Delyagin's very persona as an assistant to the prime minister looks extremely odious — it feels like the economist has made it his profession to promote his own views on any issues. Over the past two months alone, Mikhail Delyagin has given 8 press conferences: on the euro, capital flight, Russia's modernization strategy, Bush's address to Congress, inflation in January, the Falcon case, Russia's accession to the WTO, and President Putin's reputation. Simply put, Delyagin slightly overfed the press. A somewhat ironic attitude began to arise among journalists towards Mr. Delyagin: an expert on any issues, ready to give any comments. But if the government says "white," then Delyagin will definitely say "black." Most importantly, it was unclear why, actually. The public and the press should be interested in the opinion of Mikhail Delyagin, who is, in fact, a private individual. Prior to his appointment to the White House, Mikhail Delyagin called himself the "public director of the Institute for Problems of Globalization," but no one had ever heard of any other researchers at this institute. Therefore, the press dubbed Delyagin a "man-institute." Mikhail Delyagin's fame arose due to conscious, systematic and extremely intensive PR. And the government, of course, also noticed the efforts of the human institution. Which is probably what he wanted.''Left-wing publicist Dmitry Yakushev wrote in 2005: "Listening to Delyagin, I found out one important thing. Previously, I didn't quite understand how you could come up with outright nonsense about Putin's feudalism and expect people to take it seriously. Then it hit me. Delyagin came up with an ideological scheme justifying the anti-Putin alliance of the left with the big bourgeoisie, and he does not doubt for a second that the scheme is brilliant, since he is a great economist and everything he comes up with is brilliant by definition''. Yakushev also noted in 2008 that Delyagin's views were anti-human: "Following him, the progress of mankind will probably strive not to fight poverty and disease, but to the customs of
Sparta. There, the problems of improving the gene pool were solved easily.". Andrey Terentyev (Trudovaya Rossiya) calls Delyagin a "prominent businessman of left-wing political business": ''I wonder how Delyagin's "curbing monopolies" combines with the imperialist struggle for the redistribution of world markets? It's very simple. Delyagin is an educated businessman enough to seriously express the interests of the petty bourgeoisie. In fact, he breeds petty-bourgeois snot in the interests of preserving big capital and the capitalist mode of production as a whole.''Vladimir Burdyugov, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU and editor of the Communist magazine in 2011, called Delyagin "pink not by his looks, but by his complexion.", He also accused them of being ready to "... surrender Russia to the flower revolutions" and "... prepare a
Libyan scenario for Russia.". The official website of the PKK-PKK in 2019 called Delyagin a "hardened bourgeois politician", and in 2013, he became a "soldier of the bourgeois empire". Since M. Delyagin, according to S. G. Kara-Murza, adheres to both left-centrist and "orange" views., this position provokes protest from both some supporters and opponents of the ideas of liberalism in Russia. Both tried to find in his publications signs of obvious sympathy for any political ideology in Russia. In 2005, in his book "Exporting Revolution. Saakashvili, Yushchenko..." S. G. Kara-Murza wrote: "the position of the relatively new left-wing patriotic organization Rodina remains unclear," while he believed that "a prominent representative of Rodina, M. Delyagin, holds a radical orange position.". Some journalists and bloggers tried to accuse M. Delyagin of simultaneously sympathizing with both right-wing and left-wing political ideologies, and even with supporters of liberalism in Russia (for his participation in the protest movement in Russia in 2012). Pavel Danilin, analyzing Delyagin's book "Retribution on the Threshold. The Revolution in Russia: when, how, why", comes to the conclusion:This is his weakest and most unsuccessful book, nevertheless, it is of interest to political scientists. Many of Delyagin's prophecies have not come true, and many things are happening according to a completely different scenario. ...To seize power, our dear revolutionaries: "it will be necessary to establish close and strong relations not only with the main (and traditionally hostile to each other) power structures, but also with the main (and also hostile to each other) groups existing within each of these structures." This is the finish line. Throughout the book, Delyagin talked about how the security forces are robbing the country, how they are tormenting Russia and how much trouble they are causing. And then he says that in order to win, revolutionaries must "lie down" under these security forces and surrender to them with a smile on their lips. The online publication "Politgexogen" also wrote about this: Delyagin's frightening predictions, as a rule, never come true. the scarier the forecast coming from Delyagin, the more he is quoted, and the more often the name "Cassandra" flashes in the press. Rather, he is a theorist who has been broadcasting annually for ten years about the "inevitable crisis", followed by the "bloody chaos" that will surely follow if… If, apparently, Delyagin is not installed back in power. Staying in the ranks of the anti-oligarchic party, Delyagin scientifically predicted the "catastrophic" consequences of the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Big deal, party principlesThe online publication "Politgexogen" also wrote about this:In 2011, the famous economist Nikita Krichevsky accused Delyagin of plagiarizing his article. In 2012, when Delyagin, following the founder and head of the City Without Drugs Foundation, Yevgeny Roizman, publicly supported the criminal charges against opposition activist Taisiya Osipova, Alexander Averin, a member of the Other Russia party, accused Delyagin of lying and slander.: Later, Averin was also sentenced to a criminal termOn the eve of tomorrow's cassation, Taisiya Osipova was also uncovered by Delyagin. In the case of Taisiya Osipova, Mikhail Delyagin allowed himself to lie, slander and call for the death penalty of an innocent man. Delyagin is a man of legendary, epic cowardice. Michal Delyagin, a man with the face and figure of an eternally offended accountant and the psychology of a hyena (may this noble beast forgive comparisons with Delyagin), solemnly goes toIn 2020, the
Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation accused M. Delyagin of deliberately misleading Russian citizens about the alleged ban on the import of test systems for the diagnosis of coronavirus and the import of medical masks, as he said in an interview with IA Regnum. Saliya Vapieva of the
National Liberation Movement (NOD) wrote: "Delyagin is an enemy of the people, because he calls for voting against amendments to the Constitution, which should lead to the restoration of Russia's sovereignty." Denies the existence of the
coronavirus pandemic, emphasizing that the epidemic threshold has been exceeded worldwide in only 1 country (
San Marino). He is an opponent of compulsory vaccination. In April 2022, Delyagin and a group of associates introduced Bill No. 113045-8 on the Control of the Activities of Persons under Foreign Influence, according to which a "
foreign agent" is a Russian citizen who does not receive foreign funding, but who "is under foreign influence in other forms." The bill was criticized because it "expands the space for arbitrariness."; even the head of the Constitutional Committee of the Federation Council,
Andrei Klishas, spoke out against "frequent changes to the law.". In June 2022, Delyagin and a group of associates introduced Bill № 140449-8, sharply restricting the holding of rallies, marches, demonstrations and assemblies. Since the authors proposed to include "religious premises, buildings and structures, as well as land plots on which such buildings and structures are located" in the list of places near which it is prohibited to hold meetings, marches, rallies and demonstrations, the Russian Orthodox Church expressed concern about this bill: the amendments contradict the law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religion." about religious associations». In addition, Delyagin's bill prohibits holding public actions near train stations and stations, as well as near buildings of public authorities.
Responses to criticism Mikhail Delyagin in 2012 commented on the accusations of "political omnivorousness" and "love for liberals." :My job, my place in life, is to express the positive synthesis of values that has developed in Russian society.… Our society is one, and it's stupid to divide it into apartments – leftists here, patriots there, Democrats here. Near-political schizophrenics are easy to divide, but normal people don't.: they carry all the values. As for the love of liberals, I never speak out against democratic principles, but only against the perversion of these principles by liberal fundamentalists. == International sanctions ==