Peculiarity of Russian tripartism
The experience of some developed democratic countries has showed that the regular consultations in the triangle "business - labour - state" stabilise the political system on the top of the interparty competition structure. In Russia the tripartism technology was adopted at the beginning of the 1990s. Some weakness of the formal trade unions has predetermined the possibility for the business to be dominant in the system of tripartism relations. In the course of the following "counter-attack", the state has overridden the business, and thus it has assumed the right to speak on behalf of the labour by calling the business to be "socially liable". As a result, the Russian tripartism mechanisms have obtained some special properties that were not provided by the idea. The article emphasises some advantages and disadvantages, and also further trends in the development of the Russian tripartism model that has already been formed.