“We are not a party of beggars,” said Boris Nadezhdin, a member of the SPS Political Council. This statement served as an argument in favor of supporting the monetization initiatives of the Russian authorities. In general, at the council, criticism of the current regime was preferred to talking about the horrors of the future. Thus, another member of the Political Council of this party warned against calls for an “Orange Revolution”, citing the fact that in our country it will lead not to a “holiday”, but to a “dictatorship”. In other words, the SPS prefers to do nothing so that things don’t get worse