Battle 2018

It’s simpler in Zimbabwe, but we will not praise Zimbabwe for this. Judge for yourself: before the elections that are scheduled for 2018, still a lot of time, and the local national leader has long been nominated for the next term. Moreover, three days ago, the nominated again reminded the fellow citizens of his intention to re -elect. “They,” the ruler said, “they want me to go to the polls, everywhere in the party ... Most people feel that there is no replacement, there is no successor of the same acceptable as I am acceptable.”

Here we could still add that the leader would not die of modesty, but this remark will sound, perhaps, ridiculous. For the president had already hit the 94th year, at his post he began to serve his homeland at the same time, when the Olympics took place in Moscow, and such a light ailment as modesty, he was generally unknown. Having run in the new millennium, he dryly and honestly informs the people that they have indispensable and his name is Robert Mugaba.

Yes, but still it turns out not good, since the winner is known in advance. It is not clear that he will live to victory or leave the undefeated. However, the brisk spouse of the triumph claims that the conservative to the most part of his electorate Zimbabbwe will vote for the “corpse of Mugaba”, and it should be listened to her opinion. In short, and after death there is no intrigue.

It is another matter that is sitting under the sanctions, the native Byzantium with its genuine, that is, hybrid democracy. Here everything seems to be like in Zimbabwe, but this is only at first glance. There is an indispensable one, and the elections should take place in 2018, and its victory is inevitable, and the mystical afterlife notes in the comments of people close to it, no, no, and it will sound: they say, there is no Russia without Putin. However, it is unlikely that anyone will be dared to say anything definite about the president’s elections. Without risking the chatter talker as arrogant as it is irresponsible.

Here, life accustomed people to secret and slow, piquant, seductive removal of its covers. Let us recall how we wondered, Putin will go for a third term or for some obscure goals will observe the Constitution. Let us recall Medvedev, who worked Putin and tormented us, guessing about his future career: will he continue to correct Putin’s position or Putin will return to Putin? But Byzantium is adorned with modesty, and we received answers to all these damned questions with great delay, having suffered plenty. Envying those who are informed much better than us. The people Zimbabwe.

Now it's time to languish with the mystery of the fourth period of Vladimir Putin. That is, we know for sure who will certainly win in 2018, but we do not know whether he will win or will not go. We don’t even know how he wants to win: “beautifully”, with the participation of some young and early rival, or as usual. Surrounded by decrepit sparring partners, which he has repeatedly used as a pear for beating.

Vladimir Vladimirovich himself, as it were, hesitates, but also fun, playing with us. It happens that he is sad, sharing the cherished dream: I want, he says, to successfully complete his career. And then, you see, you come somewhere abroad and you see nothing but the airport and representatives of the receiving side. It happens that he smiles silently when the beloved People's Artist tells him if thoughts about resignation surge, raise his eyes to heaven and hear: "Do not even think!" But more often he is simply silent, unlike both Mugaba and any American, for example, the president who is always ready to go for a new term if the law allows. Putin hides his desire to the last, which once again emphasizes the dissimilarity of Byzantine customs with American and Zimbabvian.

Fresh sensation , shocked by the minds and hearts of independent experts, from the same row. For something on the night of February 17, Sergei Kiriyenko, together with the deputy head of the AP internal policy department, Sergei Novikov, was made a briefing , during which the Nine Media correspondents were ordered to report two news on different days. With reference to an anonymous source.

The first on Friday appeared, and we learned that the decision of the St. Petersburg governor to transfer the Isaacievsky Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church was not agreed with the president. The second was published yesterday, and in it, in different ways, the journalists of publications admitted to Kiriyenko notified readers about Putin’s nomination in 2018. The last time, and therefore a daring task was allegedly set before the authorities: Vladimir Vladimirovich should gain more votes than during the previous campaigns, and the turnout should be organized impressive. Well, different cute details were reported in passing: there will be no Navalny, to attract young people they will come up with a computer game, etc.

The collectively set out the news has already generated a scandal, and not those who entered the Kremlin, colleagues paniculish colleagues, but this is not the most interesting in this plot. The story of the nomination itself is much more curious, for which the bosses are pretended by an anonymous source. And we, falling to the source, are stronger to comprehend what we have heard and do not comprehend.

If this is true and Putin heeded his voice from above, then why will this truth not be led in the squares, but whisper to journalists? Or are we carefully prepared by the fourth time so that they do not die of joy ahead of time? Or the good news from the lips of the first deputy head of the Kremlin administration - this is the wiring and our Mugaba leaves, but the Russians are still pity and feed from the spoon with an optimistic exclusive so that they would not die ahead of time from grief? That's why Peskov, responding to the good news, declares that we are happy early. Putin, he says, promised you nothing yet, he has a different agenda. The question is, why then journalists gathered in the Kremlin with a deaf February night?

And then, that democracy, which must be appreciated by overcoming longing. Byzantine type, yes, but also with a unique taste of the current hybrid Russian life. Unthinkable without one large, albeit all the led by secrets, and different small Chekist tattoos. So we choose a beloved leader in the framework of the soviet spy special operation, so that no one can guess: we choose or not.

It seems that we are choosing, but you can’t vouch. Probably in 2018, however, maybe tomorrow. Probably, this will be his last term, however ... to pain, his own face on the TV suddenly merges into a wrinkled dark spot against the background of a mysterious landscape, and the features of unknown, but painfully familiar to our distant friends, who are also sitting under sanctions, appear in the face. The population of Zimbabwe.