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Center for Political Technologies (CPT)

The Center for Political Technologies (Центр политических технологий) is one of the oldest non-governmental think-tanks in Russia. The Center's associates constitute a skilled and coherent team working in the areas of political and business consulting. In diverse ratings of companies engaged in political and business consulting and PR, CPT has always been rated among the top three to five competitors. It is also one of the most frequently quoted think-tanks in the Russian media. CPT has a permanent staff of 70 people working in 13 departments, led by Dr. Igor Bunin. It also attracts part-time experts on a project basis.

Dr. Igor Bunin, a well renowned expert in politics and Public Relations and CPT's founding director, leads a team of experienced professionals, which specialize in politics, sociology, psychology, public relations, marketing, and advertising. The core of the CPT team was built in 1991 and the organization was officially registered in the same year. Alongside Bunin, the founders of the think-tank were Mark Urnov, Alexei Salmin and Boris Makarenko.

In 1993 the expert group published a collection of articles “Liberalism in Russia”. During the hard times of autumn 1993 CPT experts suggested the idea of organizing a constitutional referendum in parallel with the first State Duma elections. In 1994, after the parliamentary elections, CPT published the book “The Multiple Party System in Russia: the Experience of Building”, which gathered complex analyses of the Russian Party system. In the same year two founders left the CPT - Mark Urnov took a job in the Presidential Administration (he headed the Analytical Department) and Alexei Salmin became President of the Russian Public Policy Center.

In the beginning of 1995 CPT experts generated the idea of uniting loyal political forces into a political party, which would be headed by the Prime-Minister Victor Chernomyrdin. For the next five years, the CPT worked closely with the “Our House – Russia” political party. Later, in 1996, CPT experts suggested the only possible strategy for Yeltsin’s presidential campaign was maximum confrontation with the communist candidate. During the whole campaign CPT provided consulting services to Yeltsin’s campaign headquarters.

By 2001 CPT began to do business and PR consulting. Major clients of the think-tank included Transneft, Yukos and Norilsk Nickel. Since 2001 CPT has maintained a unique daily renewable website of analytic comments POLITCOM.RU.

In 2002 CPT brought to life a project of government importance. CPT experts contributed to the preparation of the All-Russian Census (the first Census in Russian post-communist history). Together with the KROS company CPT was awarded with the prestigious in Russia Silver Luchnik prize in the “Best PR Project” nomination. Furthermore, in 2002 CPT took part in the governor’s elections in Krasnoyarsk and worked out the campaign strategy, which brought victory to Alexander Khloponin.

In 2002 CPT experts contributed to the preparation of the Russian Census (the first Census in Russian post-communist history). In 2002, CPT worked on the campaign strategy for winning candidate Alexander Khloponin in the governor’s elections in Krasnoyarsk.
CPT is a founding member of the Association of Political Consulting Centers and the Russian Public Policy. It is also a member of Russian Public Relations Association (RASO). The president of the CPT is Igor Bunin.

Contact information:

Bolshoy Zlatoustinskiy pereulok 8/7, 81-95, 101000 Moscow, Russia
Tel: (495) 624-2063, 624-2069, 624-1502
E-mail: info@cpt.ru
CPT official web-site

POLITCOM.RU website