Thinking plasticine

The first foreign visit to Viktor Yanukovych was generally good. The tall guest only confused Kosovo with Serbia and Montenegro, and North Ossetia with South, but these were trifles: they are so similar. But Viktor Fedorovich answered the main question, so worried about the world public: why did he choose Brussels, not Moscow?

“Today is March 1,” he explained. “Therefore, March 1 is Brussels, and on March 5 there will be Moscow.” And, fixing this indisputable thought in the minds of listeners, he weightily added: "Our relationship with the EU will inevitably affect Russia and vice versa."

Well, we wondered.

Still, political scientists are far from politicians. Experts are schemes people. The word "Brussels" arises in the news feed, a signal light flashes in the brain, and, obeying the reflex, the simple -minded independent observer expresses the opinion that the new president of Ukraine has chosen the European path. Another who is more frequent writes about a distracting maneuver and recalls Yushchenko, who visited Moscow immediately after Putin was twice defending Yanukovych. The third, the most sophisticated, gives the Ukrainian guest a multi -vector strategy and really does not advise putting his finger in his mouth. For the newly elected "Professor" is a head.

But in fact, everything is wrong, guys. Everything is simpler, although not devoid of mystical content. Follow the thought: on the calendar on March 1, right? Therefore, Brussels. And in four days there will be Moscow, because it will come on March 5. Although it is also not necessary to complicate the thought, because he himself does not know why he first decided to mark himself in Europe. A person who turns his tongue with such difficulty also does not think quickly. With a thieves' eye on the calendar, press secretary and image advisers.

He knows something else. In the east, Russia, in the west of Europe, and between them a rather large and poor country that chose it as president. This country will drop it in a maximum of five years if it does not master the money from the IMF in the framework of the project to receive macroeconomic assistance; from Russia, daring the question of the Black Sea Fleet; And ideally, also from European partners and from America. How easy it is to calculate, the “West” in this list is more than Russia, so March 1 for Yanukovych came a little early than March 5. Immediately after the inauguration, where the Russian president did not go, somewhat wounded by a violation of previous agreements. The fact that the first thing the neighbor will visit Moscow.

In short, in Ukraine, the era of Yanukovych begins. The time of a strong business executive, whose life ideals were formed in his youth and were in leaning money from the gaping passers -by. Plasticine time. From Viktor Fedorovich, if you help him financially, you can sculpt anything. Although the liberal-nationalist is cleaner than Yushchenko, at least a faithful friend of Russia such as Bogdan Khmelnitsky. But he can have problems with the vocabulary, therefore, on historical topics, equally geographical, it is better not to speak out for him.

In part, this era will resemble the times of Kuchma, not without reason Leonid Danilovich has been so perked up in the last days. But only partly, since Kuchma, who built a foreign policy on the principle of "affectionate vegetables of two queens sucks", was smart, which can not be said about Yanukovych - with all the desire and desire to respect the democratic choice of the Ukrainian people. You can’t compare it with the Old Man, whose style is expressed in direct aggression and well -calculated hysteria. And Viktor Fedorovich is much more static and more reminiscent of the stone under which the water does not flow, but lying so firmly that he, as it were, personifies stability.

A kind of petrified plasticine, frozen in anticipation of cash downwear. The Yanukovych era will become the time when Ukraine rests from ideology. From the Holodomor and Bandera, the battles of Konotope and disputes about the historical path. Kravchuk led the country out of the “scoop”, Kuchma introduced to the charms of clan capitalism, Yushchenko tried to arouse memory and pride in the huge, and the brother with extinguished criminal offenses stared at the calendar. In the country of authoritarian one could talk about stagnation. In a state where the President’s power is very limited by the Constitution, and the elites, not to mention the oligarchs, are accustomed to liberties, there will be no stagnation. Time will only stop for a short while, but will run unnoticed.