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The results of the week. Putin goes to you
In the Kremlin
The results of the week. Putin goes to you
June 7, 2013 Alexander Golts
The main trend of the current historical period in our country is the growing absurdity, which is ordered not to be considered by the absurdity. For example, the third business of Khodorkovsky, according to which the malicious oligarch paid the scientific examination of his second sentence. The examination ordered by the then President of the country Dmitry Medvedev. It turns out that it was he, the formal chapter and the guarantor, and not only a few experts, were bought by a prisoner of Krasnokamensk in order to form public opinion profitable to Khodorkovsky. But does it bother anyone? Not at all. There is no doubt: to enter this absurdity to the court, the indictment “two -legged”, and maybe the “tenth” who needs it is guaranteed. Sergei Guriev took this as a very real threat.
The “big” process in the “swamp business” began. Apparently, a significant part of the accusations is built exclusively on the testimonies of police officers who are beaten de unbridled demonstrators. There is no other evidence. But this does not bother anyone either. To whom the “two -legged”, to whom the “ten” is again guaranteed. In Kirov, the accusation against Navalny crumbles before our eyes: witnesses caused by the prosecutor, or godlessly confused in the testimony, or completely abandon them. However, no one has a doubt that the judge will stab any sentence that will be lowered from above.
It seems that the chief chief of the country finally determined in its attitude to the subordinate people. The smaller part, those who require the rule of law, freedom and the return of political rights, he considers the State Department to be agents. The majority, which is quite satisfied with the picture of the world, which the zombie draws, he despises. That is why once repeats the same technique once: when it comes to an unpleasant, but famous person, pretends that he does not know this. What, according to the head of state, demonstrates the nullity of opponents. After all, even if Putin is caught on lies, as in the case of Sergei Guriev, whom he supposedly does not know and which the bloggers proved), he recently called by name-patronymic, this will not affect his ranking. Putin's Russia is watching porn on the Internet, and does not draw information there. And even if the fact that the head of state lied publicly will become widely known, the Putin's majority will not be offended at all, but is only imbued with respect for his dexterity.
And now, based on hatred of one and deep contempt for others, Putin decided to hold the early elections of the mayor of Moscow. The calculation is all the same impudent - let them catch the sleeve, this does not even mean anything. All calculations are obvious: for three summer months, the remaining candidates, objectionable authorities, are unlikely to be able to collect the right number of signatures (each of which will always check the competent authorities with all conceivable care) or enlist the necessary percentages of the votes of municipal deputies. Well, if this miracle happens, then the opponents of Sobyanin will have any opportunities to conduct an election campaign at all.
Putin is going on, so to speak, to you. He intends to fight the "angry townspeople" on their field, in opposition Moscow. You wanted the election - get it. True, they will pass according to the rules that he came up with. When everyone except Putin’s candidate flees with tied legs.
I have to state with regret that the Nationalist's confidence in the victory is reinforced by his calculations on the opposition’s inability to do at least something. If everything is as usual, then the first month we will argue about whether it is necessary to participate in the elections or boycott them. The consent will not be able to achieve, as a result, some leaders will call their supporters to the boycott, while others will begin negotiations on the nomination of a single candidate. As a result, they will quarrel a hundred times and will violate the previously reached agreements ten times. Then everyone will still go to be elected independently in order to get their own half percent of the vote.
However, it seems that this time there are chances that things will go differently. Because there are important reasons why Putin started these early elections. Like it or not, the next “Rocky” means that the chief boss is afraid of the future. And not only because the example of Turkey before the eyes: the protest can begin even without an apparent deterioration in the economy. But we have this deterioration just around the corner. Due to the inevitable growth of housing and communal services tariffs, the actual decomposition of health and education, pension reform, threatening to “reset” the accumulation of citizens. Despite the fact that all these problems are already making themselves felt in Moscow. Putting them to the head of the election campaign, showing that these tasks may have a solution, the opposition can at least attract the attention of citizens.
As for the eternal struggle of pride and ambitions within the opposition, that is, the hope that the obvious danger of repressions should finally push to the unification of opponents of the current government. Because the only alternative to unification, today, is emigration. And the last: talking about boycott seems to me, to put it mildly, not too rational. Experts say: the power strategy will be just to make the election campaign as invisible as possible, and the turnout in the elections is minimal. Then the wipers and plumbers become the most important resource that ensures victory. Why, one wonders, help the authorities?
The main thing to understand is that the time for decision -making is extremely few.