Already soon!

That's what.

I have not written here for two and a half years. In the sense, it wasn’t precisely here that he wrote - this “here” was not there, it was only now formed - but in general he did not write anywhere. Some were interested in: "Why?" He answered directly, frankly and essentially: "Because it is disgusting and strange to me."

A joke about a boy who first spoke at a very mature age, starting with a statement that “the scrambled eggs are burnt” - remember? He, this boy, to the question of why he was silent earlier, shrugged: they say, before the fried egg was normal ... Well, in some way, this is my case: with the difference that the fried eggs were not seen at all. Neither burnt, nor, on the contrary, unfinished, neither exactly “A Point”, as the French say. A hungry boy was sitting without any scrambled eggs, you know? So he was silent.

What political journalism do you want when there is no policy in the country? In the proper sense of the word: how

? Yes, I know, I know: I myself always considered this technique cheap - to dance from a quote with a “scientific” decryption of the term. But the Russian encyclopedic dictionary in this case is already painfully correct and formulates in the case (although, if I were the editor of the publishing house “Big Russian Encyclopedia”, I would still try to cope with two “activities” in one vocabulary article) ...

On the case, yes. Direct, dictionary, you can’t say better. In our local present business. “Determination of forms, tasks, content of the state” - is this all where in the activities of modern Russian power? “Relations between social groups” - to what extent does the political class who decomposed or decomposed in modern Russia worry? Nowhere and in any.

There is no this in the surrounding Russian political reality. No!

So, after all, “there are no pens, there are no legs - no jam” ... Ah, damn it, this is another joke, I won’t tell. Moreover, he is very evil.

Better I will say completely seriously: I did not hire in Kremlinologists. I did not choose this profession. I did not study her. I am not able to admire her classics and achievements. I do not know how to enjoy her. I do not expect to succeed in it. I despise her heroes and sympathize with her to the fellowers.

I always seemed humiliating and at the same time ridiculous efforts to extract deep politicalological conclusions from the priority of the arrangement of members of the Politburo on the rostrum of the Mausoleum. Exactly with the same feelings, I monitor, as they repeat from year to year of attempt to revive and develop this ancient art, peering into the seedling of the listeners of the next presidential message, eating the eyes of the adored leader.

And the protocol reporting of the Vesti program on how exactly and in which composition a group of leaders of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation meets at the Vnukovo-2 airport of our dear Vladimir, you see, Vladimirovich Putin, who is returning from the planned short-term vacation in the “Bocharov Ruchee”, I am not interesting in the same way as it is not interesting to an ordinary “non-professional” viewer. Because complex calculations and long -term forecasts based on observations of this important state procedure are not worth, of course, not a penny.

But for the past few years, it has been assumed that a person who was still agreed to call himself a political journalist in Russia, just such observations, conclusions and forecasts will earn his bread, his glory and his creative satisfaction. And continues to be supposed, according to the sincere conviction of most colleagues, so far.

The same day after day. Kremlinologists of the latest generation gather in groups of three (one writes - two read; sometimes, however, the ratio is the opposite) and collectively ask the key question of modernity: “Who advises it?”

By the way, three years ago, in the winter of 2003,

(then paper, of course) came out exactly with such a cover. The administration of Vladimir Putin just exceeded the middle of the first presidential term: it turned out that the plot was more appropriate, more precisely, more precisely, there was nothing more to look for the long-awaited first issue of the magazine for the main theme of the long-awaited issue of the magazine, which we finally presented to the most osent public.

We did not look for. So it was on that cover and stood with a gigantic heading font: “Who advises him?”

And a little lower-some clarifications, again in the form of questions.

Tell me now: three years later, one of these issues is outdated, lost relevance, sounds an absurd relic of the naive “early years of Putin's formation”? By no means.

Even the mention of the “old Yeltsin Guard” does not look like an anachronism, if you recall the origin of the same Surkov-how did the second number in the last published

Russian politicians, compiled by tireless lovers of rating everything that comes to hand.

Well, maybe the term "new course" in application to Putin has been a little forgotten. And even then: who will forbid us to consider this a metaphor, a transparent hint of the eternal Roosevelt dreams of the current head of the Russian Federation ...

Now tell me something more important: do you know the answers to these questions? Well, at least one of them? ..

So I'm talking about that.

Three years, as it had not happened, and in our political science and politicalalytic economy, everything is still, as in the American psychological drama about the jury: “Your honor! Our verdict is “no” to the first question, “no” to the second question, “no” to the third question! .. ”

Are you interested in an economic course and curious about who paves it?

Then pay attention here. At first, from a very authoritative source, at times and really close to a truly informed one, information is flowing to the public about how two influential members of the government

, guaranteeing many years of stability to investment in the Russian economy. How long and mercilessly they torment the head of state with this project. How they finally receive a blessing from him to go to the World Economic Forum with triumphal reports on the guaranteed success of their initiatives.

But in the meantime, it turns out that while government liberals wandered around the back streets of our forbidden city, the Ministry of Finance completed work on amendments to the Tax Code ensuring reform

. Namely, the reform that rejects the very idea of ​​the invariability of the rules of the tax game. Reform that establishes the presumption of tax guilt as the basis of relations between the entrepreneur and the state. A reform that issues a tax official for the boundless operational expanses of the creative interpretations of the law and interpretations of his spirit “for the good of the sovereign treasury”, to the extent of the understanding and ingenuity of this very official.

Do you tell you anything else about the course?

And about the procedure for making the most important political decisions - can I not be in such detail? Can I just remind you about what quality and reliability a decision was prepared to reform the notorious benefits (so that they all climb)? And how the moment was chosen to “open the old social abscess” ... And how financial and legal instruments were honed for this opening in the most painless and non -conflict way ... and how this autopsy was finally triumphantly took on ... and that this autopsy showed ...

Already about strategic planning, a scrupulous miscalculation of consequences and a comprehensive analysis of development options that characterize the work of this sophisticated state machine? Or is it still? Okay, I will not.

And about access to the presidential ear - you probably are concerned about this pressing problem of Russian political everyday life - will you allow me to mention very short? Literally in a word: I will simply utter the word "Ukraine" - and I will stop there. And I will not hang any hyperlinks here. What? After all, each of you already has half a dozen of your favorite stories on the Ukrainian theme, and the wiped Operational plot about two congratulations to Yanukovych from the head of the Russian state has long been the most funny among them.

Here, after all, stories - for every taste, temperament and circle of associations. Someone likes about how in the last minute the Russian prosecutor's office rushed to put on the wanted list one state of Kyiv. And someone more likes the unknown pork cartilage, which our long-suffering homeland, apparently, tried to redeem from Ukraine for forgiveness to her multi-billion dollar gas debts and for the allocation of further millions to the absurd campaign “Muscovites vote for Yanukovych”.

So how?

Still: who?

Who advises him?

A?

Listen, do you care?

Are you still interested in this?

If we are talking about the advice of such a quality that we find in the Russian political process, about the tips leading to such shameful political results-does it still matter who exactly, in what form and under what circumstances are all these nonsense to the supreme main primary?

Maybe this is just the case when the answer is not important, but the genuine content of the formulation of the question itself?

In fact: “who” is “who”, and not at all “what,” it means that we are still talking about informal groups of influence, about dubious shadow persons, and not about full-fledged political institutions. We are talking about fellow countrymen, classmates, relatives along the Labrador Koni Labrador, business partners to the past, the current and, God give him to the future.

“It is“ to him ”“ to him ”,“ self -significant ”,“ incomprehensible in the permissive wisdom ” - the only one that only depends on who at any moment and only in his understanding, in the whim of anger, in anger, or in pronunciation of human weakness is able to turn the whole country to the side or even try to turn its natural development. And not at all about the power system, not about a rationally arranged and calculated structure, which itself would obey an understandable historical logic and would be able to subordinate the country to it.

“Advises”-that’s the point that “advises”, that “humanly” helps, “sympathizes”, “does not leave worries”, “worries with all your soul”, that is, again leads beyond the management procedure, formalized order. That is, about the rational arrangement of the case, about sequential planning, transparent control can simply not be remembered. Reasonable technology, calm administrative mechanics is again replaced here by the viscous matter of intrigue, sweaty fuss in the bureaucratic stall.

What should happen so that they understand: in the modern world, at the speeds that gained the development of civilization, it is impossible to rule a large country according to these rules, within the framework of this game, this expanding ritual. You can only try to keep your right to stay under management.

Again, these eternal automobile analogies: it is impossible to meaningfully and prudently control the steering wheel if you do not hold it, but hang on it, frantically clinging to the rim and trying to not get out of the cabin on the bumps.

So what should happen?

And then it owes what has been happening in the last months before our eyes.

Politics becomes a form of real human activity. Full life and passion, which does not at all resemble dull wiping of hardware rubber.

She involves large groups of people, many of whom are still not aware that they were drawn to politics. Nobody still undertook to explain to them yet: why they go outside and gather a protesting indignant crowd is just a politician.

She knocks down energetic, decisive and most often angry citizens into communities, many of which are not yet called parties, since their activists themselves have not yet understood that the goals facing these formations are the most political nature. It simply seems to them so far: the right to be called a political party is given certain straps in the Ministry of Justice as a receipt. They simply had no time to make sure: this right was mined in real business and then presented to the state body as a failed fact, which the official can only dutifully register.

She pushes forward and up new leaders forward and up, many of whom still do not believe that politics has now become their own profession. Moreover, their fate.

But for this, all, perhaps, should be observed carefully.

So we will watch. And let's talk in more detail. After all, you can already write about this. Not so disgusting and strange, right?

In short, further - as on the air: "Stay with us."

It will be interesting. It looks like so. Already soon.