Kremlin’s CIS Spin-Doctor Fired

Modest Kolerov, the head of the Russian Presidential Administration’s Department for Inter-Regional and Cultural Ties with Foreign Countries, was fired by President Vladimir Putin yesterday, Russian daily Kommersant reported on October 24.

Kolerov was known as Russia’s chief ideologist and spin-doctor in relations with CIS states, specifically tasked with reigning in the “color revolutions” after peaceful protests swept out entrenched leaderships in Ukraine and Georgia. Kolerov was previously head of Russia’s “Regnum” news agency.

According to the newspaper, quoting an unnamed source in Putin’s Administration, the Kremlin was dissatisfied with Kolerov’s “excessive radicalism” in relations with neighbouring states, which brought no results.

“He initiated vigorous activities in post-Soviet states, specifically in Georgia, Transdnistria and Estonia, but they have not brought improved relations with Russia,” Kommersant quotes the same source.

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