The device is tired

Why do officials in Russia no longer try to imitate the legality

The State Duma website published the conclusion of legal administration prepared for the third reading of the bill on undesirable organizations, according to which the leaders of the latter can be planted for up to six years. The head of the Department, Ekaterina Gorbacheva, is in a hurry to report that there is no legal, legal and linguistic nature on the “draft federal law of the federal law”. The political meaning of the persecution of unwanted organizations is understandable even to the official: he is needed so that no one in Russia doubts that the power is beautiful, eternal and located in reliable hands.

The only problem is that the bill at the time of publication of a document signed by Gorbacheva has not yet been adopted in the second reading. So the legal administration has no comments on a document whose text has not yet been approved by deputies. Probably because everyone understands that the deputies do not solve anything with us, especially when it comes to issues of "state importance." Such as the persecution of political opponents of the Kremlin.

Leonid Gozman recently described for the “new” his experience of the accused in the Russian court: he was fined for participating in an “unauthorized rally”. This is not the first time in Goseman’s track record, but in 2021 something broke in the system. The judge, according to him, was not at all interested in how much the text of the protocol corresponds to “evidence”, in particular, at what time Gozman walked around Moscow and whether it was captured by the tracking camera. If earlier the Russian courts tried how they knew how, but tried to observe formalities, now you can not worry about them. Like the official website of the State Duma, you can not worry about what kind of reading the bill is talking about there.

Yes, and why be shy about? Everyone understands everything: in Russia, life does not go according to the rules, but as you agree.

Life by law is a western value alien to us (for this reason, by the way, it is possible to adopt any impossible laws and selectively accuse them of violation of unreliable citizens). As for this, plumbers and academics, homeless and officials, taxi drivers and oligarchs are one. When the conversation begins that the young generation does not know, so it came up with some kind of “beautiful Russia”, we are talking about this knowledge. They constantly hint at him with the expression “well, you yourself understand everything” when they offer to break the law a little - for example, to participate in political agitation for the ruling party in the state institution. People who do not understand how “everything is arranged” here, and in the police areas they require a call to a lawyer, and in courts they are waiting for an acquittal, remind foreigners.

Two conclusions follow from this. At the first level, the system even ceases to pretend that some rules exist and work. If everyone knows that the violator will always evade responsibility, if familiar with the right people, but the innocent will sit down, then there is no reason to worry about different pieces of paper. The arbitrariness causes psychological addiction to all involved: the state apparatus begins to work on the principle of "and will do so."

At the second level, timid, and then increasingly confident voices are heard first: or maybe we can cancel all this nonsense? Democracy, separation of powers and fairy tales about the legal state. Grandfathers lived without democracy, and we will live. Like, the sovereign, only the word, and the estate-fortified Russia will tear off Western dresses and will be revealed in all its nature. But for now, there is no such order.