We are building on Senate Square

The reincarnation of the military leader into a political figure in modern Russia has been taking place more than once. By ear, the names of Alexander Lebed, the late Leo Rokhlin. There are also examples of the fresher - Governor of the Kaliningrad Region Admiral Vladimir Egorov, Ulyanovsk Governor General Vladimir Shamanov. Of the latter, a member of the Federation Council from the Primorsky Territory Colonel General Valery Manilov. And so Admiral Vyacheslav Popov joined him: the former commander of the Northern Fleet was ordained the Murmansk Duma in senators.

The first generation of generation politicians crossed swords into the oral in the romantic period of public searches - what to do, who is to blame, whom to call to Bonaparte? The mentioned swan and Rohlin at different times and in their manner of butt with the president, having won the laurels of the carbonarians in the circle of their fans. These and other governors and deputies in stripes on the crest of popular adoration carried out the so -called protest electorate on his shoulders. Egorov and Shamanov was helped by a residual protest directed against the first president and his team and authorized by the second president. Manilov and Popov - a variant of civilized employment of military leaders offended by the resignation. Only a very naive person will see in the appointment by the Senator the same Popov call to the Kremlin and personally to the president. The disciplined admiral is carefully planted in the Senate chair exclusively with the permission of the personnel of the presidential administration, who are in the will of the will of the regions.

They say that Vyacheslav Alekseevich himself chose whether he would go in a blowjob whether to go senators or where else (the benefit of the proposal was). Maybe so. But most likely, from the very beginning, he was made to understand that his future is directly dependent on loyalty to the authorities, which, by the way, appointed him the chief defendant for the death of Kursk (no one was injured from the senior).

Outwardly, of course, everything looks beautiful: a courageous Admiral, undeservedly crushed by Moscow, a victim of the Kremlin intrigues, finds understanding with peripheral legislators, which, in turn, just as courageously challenges the central government - they say, we will not let the good name be given away. But the beautiful picture can be recognized only on condition that the Murmansk Duma and personally Governor Yuri Evdokimov, for the sake of the Admiral’s good name, consciously sacrifice the interests of the region (well, what kind of “pusher” from the person who disliked the Kremlin - from such a thing in ministerial corridors will shy away from the leper).

We will still not suspect the Murmansk Duma of collective insanity. Moreover, they have a fresh example of colleagues from Buryatia before their eyes. They suddenly found an eclipse, and they decided to send their envoy to the Federation Council of one former Prosecutor General, similar to Yuri Skuratov. Moscow cured the ailment of Buryat parliamentarians in two days. Climbing the Kremlin, they explained to them only with the sanction of the Kremlin itself. The rest is punishable by amateur performances.

Now Admiral Vyacheslav Popov is a senator. Again a respected person. And the risk of his uncontrollable political self -development is no more than the probability of turning the Primorye’s envoy into Valery Manilov into a defendant of the Kremlin policy in Chechnya. In fairness, we note: there is still the difference between the mainpurian and the fighting admiral. But over time, the efforts of experienced image makers and it will be erased without a trace. Such a place, so it paints a person.

The employment of Vyacheslav Popov is a symptom of the healing of society. His return to the origins. In particular, to the Petrovsky decrees that eradicated independent political thinking in the military minds. Political forces (from left -wing to right), dreaming of recruiting the "martials of the military" into their ranks, from now on may not wander through the garrisons in search of the right candidate, not seduce promoted commanders in the first places on party lists. It is enough to contact the appropriate subdivisor of one of the departments of the presidential administration (as, say, the directors are contacted by the Film studios) with the corresponding request, and you will be selected by a reliable general or admiral with an adjustable degree of opposition: from a communist to a monarchist. With the desired type of charisma - from the roaring General Lebed to the intelligent General Vorobyov.

It is not at all disgraceful existence that another person involved in recent resignations in the Northern Fleet - the former chief of staff of the SF Mikhail Mozak. It was rumored that he was offered the position of assistant to the presidential envoy to the North-Western Federal District. This, of course, is not a chair in the Senate; In addition, such a place binds the name of the admiral to the acts of the executive branch in the most stringent way. From this branch, especially in a month or two, when they begin to forget about you, you won’t jump into big policy.

But, I think, Mozak’s thoughts are not about this today. The case of Kursk is not yet closed. The need for defendants can always arise. And now with the elevation of Popov one remains one-single. So the loyalty of the harsh mozzhaka is guaranteed to the Kremlin to a greater extent than in the case of Popov. And suddenly the deputy suddenly came to the former chief of staff or some other Sinecure, it will only mean that the political fanaberia, indicated by the admiral in the press, passed safely as childhood illness.

I must admit that the Kremlin managed to eradicate the craving for independent walking into politics at the Russian military leaders. Only we build. Even if it is separate.

She was drowned by the border.ru, 12/01/2001

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