In the opposition

Rules of the game

May 22, 2008 Viktor Shenderovich

“The Lord gave Moses only one commandment:

"NOT" with verbs is written separately. "

The rest are examples ... "
Joke

In the alphabetical list of the signator of the Charter of the National Assembly, my last name stands immediately before the name of the Stalinist Oleg Shenin.

I think this neighborhood pleases us equally.

Of course, it would be more comfortable for me to see near my last name well, let's say, Viktor Sheinis, a well -known “apple tree”, dear to me. But she is not there, as is not higher on the list of Chubais, and below - Yavlinsky. And there are Shenin and lemons. And as campaign material, not the Vedomosti newspaper, but the Duel newspaper lay on the tables.

But here it is, the text of the charter, written in Russian - and signed by the participants of the Assembly! Therefore, the hard -stone Shenin swears, not sparing his life, to protect civilian freedoms; A lover of Che Guevara Limonov declares his readiness to abandon violence as a method of political struggle, and Islamic Marxist Heydar Jemal is about to stop fighting Jews ... For this, it was worth living!

I share a grin of skeptics, but only partly.

You say: these and others, much more exotic characters of the Assembly outweigh in the political plan of Kasparov and Illarionov (see Makarkin's article ). Don't think. Will they violate the obligations taken as soon as possible? Some - very much. For this reason, you do not want to enter into a dialogue with them? But this is already strange. Is it really in the Kremlin, where our liberals in the law run on the first whistle, no one violated public obligations?

On the participants of the Assembly - dirt and blood? On some ideologies - huge, but, as far as I know, personally, Stalinist Shenin did not give orders that entailed the death of hundreds of people. And no matter how relate to Limon's escapades, Eduard Veniaminovich did not steal anything from the budget, but for the characters stylistically close to us from the Putin’s economic bloc - cute, not talking vulgarities about Vietnam and Che Guevara - I won’t ruin ...

So why communicate with Limonov and Shenin is ashamed, but with Putin, Gref, Kudrin, Medvedev - no? Strange ideas about intelligence. Go away, nasty! - This is the logic of maid of honor, not politicians.

Gentlemen! Here is the text that fixes the list of rules of an honest political game and states their absence in today's Russia. Do you agree with the written? Apparently, they agree, because there is nothing in the Charter that you would not say separately - Yavlinsky, Belykh, Ryzhkov, Kasyanov ...

But as soon as the matter comes from party and personal interest to the possibility of a real unification, with the real threat of subsequent excommunication from the Kremlin tits-here the thin noble French game begins. I? Here with these? Never!

National Exotics, mentioned by Makarkin, like its heavy communist variety, will not go from Russian politics-this is the local climate. However, this kind of characters run around the periphery of European political life, and no one forbids them to try their strength in the elections. This is a risk, but much less than the risk of a ban. Political extremals are much more attractive to the public in the halo of martyrdom! This is the alphabet.

We may like or not like the participants in the competition, but the written fixation of the rules is a thing is much more important than personalities, and this is also an alphabet.

The man who hid the dump in the middle of the bog tournament start playing at Chapaeva should know for sure that this number does not rush! The rest are examples, as in an anecdote, put into an epigraph.

It was honest elections, and not the victory of the democratic candidate, who was the goal of the committee-2008 that had late in Bose ... It did not work.

It turned out in Ukraine. Here is a paradox! Yanukovych, who tried to crush the country with a lie and riot police, today is a full -fledged figure of the democratic process, because as a result of the Maidan in Ukraine, they won, first of all, the rules of the game.

And according to these rules, the losers are not trampled.

The Kremlin became the champion of Russia 2008 precisely because the Russian (democratic including) Elita silently agreed to forget about the rules, including the rules of decency.

Today, normal people (we will clarify: not “liberals” and not “patriots”, but simply those who believe that it is not good to steal) - there is no way to seriously affect the political life of their own country. But today there is, at least, the opportunity to call black black and begin to consolidate. Not around Yavlinsky, Limonov, Bukovsky, Kasyanov or Gerashchenko, but around the normal coordinate system!

What is a great danger to Russia today-several dozen old wrestlers with genetics and Zionism, so vividly described by Alexei Makarkin, or unspoken consolidation of society (alas, liberal society, primarily) of the authoritarian status quo-in a slavish hope that under Medvedev will all this be dissected itself?

“A slave dream is a market in which you can buy a master,” wrote a hedgehog. Apparently, many today have joyful days: it seems to them that they managed to buy an unzer master ...