The show begins!

Well, dear fellow citizens, make yourself comfortable. Stretch your legs, cover yourself with pillows, and don’t forget to stock up on various drinks and goodies. We are in for a most exciting spectacle. It’s still better to send the children to bed. Because such a frank demonstration of a wide variety of human vices - greed, betrayal, cowardice, stupidity and many others - will definitely not benefit them. But what do we still have to see? Oh, if only I knew exactly the answer to this question... It’s only clear that it won’t be boring. However, in any case, you will have to overcome the feeling of disgust in yourself, because, I tell you, a battle of spiders in a glass jar is nothing compared to what it would be like if, say, Boris Gryzlov and Sergei Mironov or Vladislav Surkov and Sergei Sobyanin were placed in this jar.

Imagine: Boris Vsevolodovich is trying to climb up the glass wall, and Sergei Mikhailovich grabs him from behind and bites his calf muscle, and Boris Vsevolodovich hits him on the head with his free leg, and, in the end, they both roll to the bottom of the jar and continue there biting, scratching and kicking. At the same time, both sniffle disgustingly, squeal and grunt. And Vladimir Vladimirovich himself holds this jar in his hands and with undisguised horror and disgust watches what is happening inside. And most of all, of course, he wants to throw her against the wall. But you can't. Because his children are there. In the political sense, of course, he himself once pulled them out of various dark corners and placed them in the most prominent places. Now they are his hope and support. And he has no others. And those that exist are either the same or even worse.

We will have to constantly observe scenes like the one described above over the next two years. True, there are optimists who believe that everything will end much faster. But let's not rush things.

It is clear that the battle between the two political giants, the leaders of our parliamentary chambers, was initially predetermined by the very birth of a new mega-party - the alliance of the Party of Life, Rodina and the Party of Pensioners. United Russia became worried. This excitement is due to a lack of understanding of what is happening. After all, my dear Father declared many times that there is no closer to him than “United Russia”. And he took care of her, cherished her in every possible way: he fed her, gave her water, put her to bed. He assigned his smartest boy to look after his beloved child. And suddenly, overnight, everything changed.

Last Saturday, the leader of United Russia, Boris Gryzlov, fell at the feet of the leader of the nation with a silent question. Or maybe not with the mute. They say, what have we done wrong? For so many years they resignedly and humbly carried out all the orders that came from behind the Kremlin wall, raised their hands in chorus, never mixed up anything, gave their voice only on command, did not show unnecessary initiative, obeyed the boy... So why do you, dear Father, need another "United Russia"?

To be honest, I don’t know exactly what Father answered Gryzlov. He probably just stroked his head, calmed him down as best he could and said something like: “Really, why do I need another “United Russia”... I myself, Borenka, don’t really understand what’s going on around me.”

However, Gryzlov’s new opponent, Chairman of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov, is not in the best position right now. He, too, is confused. How could it happen that the Father gives the go-ahead for the creation of a new party, publicly demonstrates it, and then the goat governors, at the behest of various Kremlin intriguers, take it and remove it from running in the Sverdlovsk region and in Tuva. How shoud I understand this? “Treason! - Mironov screams at every corner, - the collapse of the power vertical! A new conspiracy of regionals and part of the Kremlin Administration! Undermining my authority, which has been sanctified by the Father more than once! That is, I mobilize various resources, tell my supporters that everything is under control in the Kremlin, and I, like some Yavlinsky, are being removed from the run?! What is this, according to concepts!?”

Oh, Sergei Mikhailovich is right, and he’s right – a conspiracy. Of course, there is a conspiracy against him in the Kremlin. Or rather, not against him personally. Mironov, as they say, simply fell into the hands.

The creation of a powerful new party alliance was initiated by that part of the presidential Administration controlled by the powerful deputy head of the Administration, Igor Sechin. Of course, with the support of the most formal leader of this most important presidential structure, Sergei Sobyanin. It is clear that they don’t give a damn about all these Mironov’s “Lives”, “Motherland” and “Pensioners”. It is important for them to break other people’s plans and create an alternative political reality. In other words, they do not want to play a game called “Dmitry Medvedev,” whose candidacy is now being lobbied with inhuman zeal by the second Kremlin clan, whose representatives are usually called “liberals.” (Which, of course, is a pure mockery of traditional terminology). This group is today headed by another deputy head of the Administration, Vladislav Surkov, his former boss Alexander Voloshin and the head of RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais.

It is clear that the actions of the “siloviki” also contain revanchist motives - after all, the resignation of Prosecutor General Ustinov and the failure of the plan to establish full control over Transneft were serious blows to their positions.

The weakness of the siloviki clan is that they do not have their own successor. (Or there are too many of them). Therefore, the only acceptable game for them is called “Vladimir Putin – Third Term.” All that remains is to persuade Rothschild. But in order to persuade him, he needs to demonstrate strength and real political resources. This is why Mironov and all his party rabble are needed.

Of course, Vladislav Surkov got scared when he realized that Igor Sechin’s plan seemed to be supported by the president. And he immediately began to pretend that he also had something to do with strengthening the Party of Life. According to the Daily Journal, he himself initiated the publicization of his speech to the “vital” activist in March of this year. They say, look when I came up with this. However, this is a rather weak bluff, especially considering the fact that in reality Surkov is forced to resist the strengthening of the “Party of Life”. At least in order to demonstrate their position and power to the leadership of United Russia. In this regard, with a high degree of confidence it can be argued that the removal of the “Party of Life” from the elections in the Sverdlovsk region and Tuva was his doing.

It is clear that this intrigue is only at the beginning of its development. It is also obvious that any discord in the Kremlin team (and even more so a full-scale war) serves to quickly collapse the entire notorious Putin vertical. There is no doubt that this process is gaining momentum.

By the way, dear fellow citizens, I am afraid that it will not be possible to calmly watch the play to the end. At some point you will have to get up from the couch and take part in this farce. Because the role of an outside observer is good for everyone, except for one thing - the lack of opportunity to influence the result. And it matters to everyone - we can continue to live here.