Russian game in Democracy...

AFAIK, our university is to participate in conference with Mironov (speaker of the Council of the Federation). I've already seen all planned questions.... I feel there are prepared answers for these questions already. Are they crazy? Why should anyone make a conference (and why should anyone spend money on this conference), when this conference is a pure farce? I know, in Soviet time there were elections with one surname in ballot papers. Is anything changing?
I hate such games in democratic country and hate these clowns who parasitizes on usual people...