In the Kremlin

Empty chores

December 21, 2011 Alexander Podrabinek

By and large, the power is inexpressible, but her scent is excellent. Having panicked about the unexpected consolidation of society, the tandem makes maximum efforts to extinguish a wave of public protests. The meaning of their activity is to in any way to take the attention of society from those issues that were raised at December rallies throughout the country. Switching public attention to interesting, burning and even scandalous topics - any other than canceling the results of the December 4 and holding new honest elections to parliament.

Here is the nomination of Mikhail Prokhorov as a presidential candidate - let everyone discuss everything whether he is managed from the Kremlin directly or coincides as if by accident. There are unexpected discussions on NTV with frank questions of glamorous journalists, so that everyone is surprised and discussed: does a living life return on TV again? There are discussions in the Kremlin administration of the current moment with his own intellectual servants, which Viktor Shenderovich told about; and a wide premiere gesture congratulations to Alexei Venediktov on his birthday; and Medvedev’s thoughts that the political system must be changed; And Putin's conviction that nothing needs to be changed.

Power fussed. It provokes discussions, creates a revival in political life, and every day acts as a newsmaker. It is no longer so important who and what will say, if only it was under the control of the tandem and did not remind citizens about their demand for honest elections. In an interview with Russia-24 television channel, Prime Minister Putin said that it is not necessary to reduce the 5 percent passing barrier in the parliamentary elections, because "otherwise we will get a difficult to control, incompetent parliament." Maybe this is not even a reservation on Freud, not a random emission from the darkness of the subconscious, but quite thought out that the parliament should not be controlled with difficulty, but easily. Here everyone would have to get involved in a discussion: 5 percent is a lot or a little; Who and with what on earth should manage parliament; Putin is stupid or cunning, etc. Of course, in the theoretical discussion about interest, the fact that this figure now matters does not matter, because the elections are falsified from beginning to end. But let citizens warmly argue on abstract topics, so beloved in our Fatherland. If only they did not go out into the streets.

It may well get to the point that the authorities will sacrifice light and heavy figures, just to save the party. The resignation of Gryzlov and the NTV permission to show the Moscow rally on December 10 is seeds. They will really reduce the passing barrier to the Duma, return the “elections” of the governors, remove Lenin’s corpse from Red Square and do something else that is a bay-out, which is why the dumbfounded voter will say: “They give it! They are really public pressure. We won! ” After that, according to the tandem, the voter must calm down, entrusting the suddenly corrected crooks the opportunity to continue to rule the country.

This is the calculation of Putin and the company. They think to buy society with promises of reforms and even, what the hell is not joking, the reforms themselves, but only to those that will not question their opportunity to remain in power for an infinitely long time. They expect that society will accept their handouts, following two popular considerations-“better than anything” and “if only there was no war”.

The desire to avoid victims is reasonable, but it is impossible to get freedom as a bar's gift. This will be only an illusion, a deception, a layout of freedom, as it turned out to be an ineffective layout of the democracy that fell on us as a result of the “perestroika” bummed upstairs. Everything fell apart very quickly and began to return to its circles. Our society, having seriously performed at the turn of the 90s, quickly stroked and entrusted the fate of the country to the former party apparatus, who left his sinking ship in time. Then this caused a storm of enthusiasm in society - the nomenclature of this level and to our camp! And it was necessary to be horrified and cleared of red filth.

It is possible that such defectors will appear now, because there is no more reliable way to ruin the movement than to lead it. Therefore, a society that demanded honest elections must be on a guard and not succumb to temptations. We must not forget that in the first place today are not such trifles as reforms or a change of odious personalities in power, but the repair of the main tool of democracy - elections. A tool with which you can regularly change power and build the future of the country. Then the current chores of tandem will be really empty.

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