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The results of the year. And I'm fighting because I'm fighting

January 10, 2016 Alexander Osovtsov

Portos, of course, was cunning. He fought for a reason, but because D'Artagnan accidentally saw that his bandage was sewing with gold only in front, so her back was covered by a cloak not worn out of weather. But that duel, like the other two, did not take place with Athos and Aramis. But the custom of fighting, either to cover the wrong side deprived of gilding, or just like that, has been preserved in some places.

In particular, the whole of 2015 was held in Russia under the auspices of numerous fights, and these were not at all noble noble fights and victims. Mostly the Russian government fought, both within the country and beyond. He fought vilely, trying to attack stealthily, and cruelly, in the blood, or even to death.

In Russia, repressions against the opposition and simply dissenters are actually put on stream, it is difficult to call them massive only because this phrase is associated with Stalinism, that is, millions of shot, tortured, worn out into camp dust. But last year, the administratively detained account goes exactly hundreds, or even thousands, political prisoners - for dozens. Among these latter there are already those who are sitting or under trial only and exclusively for the expression of their civil position, no other actions, at least remotely related to damage to society or personality, Dadin, Polyudova, Ionov, Halperin even attributed.

It is clear that the whole year went with a sense of terrible loss - Boris Nemtsov was killed. It is very significant that neither the official nor any other version of this crime is discussed as the alleged criminals - the contractor, organizer, customer - nobody except representatives of the power vertical of the Russian government. The driver Lee Geremeyev, whether Geremeyev himself, Kadyrov, Putin - all indicated either compose this vertical, or is strung on it.

Take another case-with Vladimir Kara-Murza the Younger. Many, and Volodya himself, and I, too, believe that it was an attempt to kill. Who could commit it? Who, in addition to the authorities, who, except the Kremlin and the Lubyanka, could need to kill the coordinator of the Open Russia, led by Khodorkovsky? What could this attempt on this attempt, except for political? Obviously, no.

It is important, the Kremlin aggression in 2015 from the political sphere spread to the socio-economic one. Refusal of indexing pensions to working pensioners, mockery 4%, rising prices and tariffs, special Plato for truckers, non -payment of salaries of teachers, reducing jobs in healthcare - this list can be continued and continued. Most of all, this resembles the behavior of a gang of gopniks, shaking money for breakfasts from pockets for children, in order to buy a bottle, but after all, the costs of weapons and security forces are growing and growing. And used for their intended purpose-again for a fight.

The Kremlin’s fight with Ukraine is now in a state of apparent attenuation, but people continue to die almost every day. No Minsk agreements are implemented, while Putin again promised not to send the Russian Donbass to the clutches of Ukrainian nationalists. I don’t know how Ukrainians relate to the prospect of getting the so -called frozen conflict in the east of their country, but I can recall that if desired, the Kremlin is extremely easily “defrosting” such conflicts. Who does not believe - ask at least in Georgia, even in Odessa.

But, perhaps, a huge surprise of the past year was that the Kremlin regime is ready to get involved in fights not only in the post -Soviet space. Russia is now fighting in Syria, it is not clear why and for what, and is fighting so that it is already inexplicably inexplicable for what purpose it almost entered into a hot conflict with Turkey, limiting itself to cold. It is periodically reported that the deliveries of Russian weapons “Hezbollah” did not take place thanks to the bombing of Israeli aviation. In general, it would be nice to get out of this Syria somehow in such a way as not to fight with someone who has no reasons for the conflict with Russia, except for the feudishness of its leadership.

Well, of course, all this happens against the backdrop of an ongoing conflict with the whole West, sanctions and antisanctions, periodic statements about the ability of Russia to show all Kuzkin’s mother ... No, sorry, this was the last time, now to turn into an atomic ashes.

In general, the impression of the past year is sad and simple: the Russian regime is trying to solve all issues of internal and foreign policy only and exclusively by violence and the threat of violence, often forgetting even about the causes and entering into fights and inability to act differently.

Of course, there is something that is related by Putin with Portos-a lack of money to gild the bandage on both sides. But otherwise, everything is very different, starting with the fact that tall, cheerful and, in essence, the good -natured musketeer risked primarily himself and, most importantly, lived in the 17th century. In the XXI, a similar manner, especially for the head of state, few in the world seems acceptable. And, I repeat, no one has the illusions about the main Kremlin brawlers about honor - no one has left - already in the budget law for 2016, the American Congress instructs the national intelligence to study the issue “On the use of political murders as a form of implementation of state power in the Russian Federation”. Moreover, Congress requires a report on this topic for the period from January 1, 2000. Not at all a random date.

Alas, while the Kremlin’s drury is more concerned about the American Congress than the inhabitants of Russia. It remains to express a careful hope that in 2016 the Russians will change their attitude to this issue. After all, it is they who concerns them in the first place.

And ethically and physically.


Photo: Russia. Sochi. January 8, 2016. Russian President Vladimir Putin (in the foreground) during training with the Russian Judo team in the Southern Federal Sports Training Center of the South Sports teams. Alexey Nikolsky/Press Service of the President of the Russian Federation/TASS