Emptiness advice

Mikhail Fedotov, Chairman of the Presidential Council for the Promotion of the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, does not agree with the conclusions of Freedom House about the worsening of the state of civil rights and freedoms in Russia over the past year. Fedotov believes that, on the contrary, the human rights situation in 2010 improved. Khodorkovsky’s sentence, in his opinion, is not an indicator. Apparently, it is not an indicator of “triumphal lawlessness”, and the beating of journalists, and “elections”, and much more, which made 2010 a noticeable step on the stairs leading Russia down.

There are no questions to Fedotov. A man was quite conscious and enthusiastically as a time ago, the guardians got into service, taking his place somewhere between the judges Danilkin and Borovkova. With the same eyes, mowed by lies, he will now say that the President’s hindering is improving the situation with freedom of speech, and most importantly, leads to the tennization of the country. This is a personal choice. Nothing personal. Only service. That is why there are no questions either to the official of the administration Fedotov, or to the judges Danilkin and Borovkova. These people no longer have and cannot have a reputation.

There are questions to those members of the Presidential Council working under the chairmanship of Fedotov, who have a reputation. I do not mean such characters as, for example, TV presenter Pushkov or InSorovets Jurgens. These are very different people, but each of them in the Fedot Council is clearly in its place. But how comfortable are Dmitry Oreshkin and Svetlana Sorokina, Yuri Djibladze and Elena Panfilova, Alexey Simonov and Mara Polyakova today? Not to mention Tamara Morshchakova, whose reputation and actions in the crisis moments of the nineties and zero can serve as a tuning fork for public people.

Today, such a tuning fork was the act of the editor of the “New” Dmitry Muratov, who publicly left the Public Council “Under Kolokoltsev”, not considering it possible for himself to serve as a public cover of the cop and gabs.

When the “Privatevevsky” council was created, the situation was different, although at that time many members of the Council considered it necessary to explain the reasons for their participation in this dubious organization.

The last month has sharply changed the situation. The shift of the chairman clearly turned the Council into a guard, talking about the slinization that covers censorship in the media, sleepless justice, corruption and rezage. But this is not even the main thing. At the time of the creation of the Council, one could hardly imagine a sincere person hoping for the Medvedev thaw or modernization, or whatever they call it there.

Perhaps such people are today. But calling them sincere and decent every day is more and more difficult.

The Presidential Council should give advice to the president. Give advice to an empty place? Cover this empty place with your reputation? Maybe leave this honorary duty to Fedotov, Pushkov and Yurgenas? They have such a job.