In the Kremlin

Egyptian darkness

December 19, 2012 Yuli Nisnevich

The darkness, which came not from the Mediterranean Sea and not as a result of the machinations of various enemies from near and far abroad, covered so not beloved, in their deeds, the current rulers of Russia. This darkness is generated by the miasm of the ruling regime, which has reached the last stage of its decomposition and, destroying itself, like a cancer tumor, corrodes everything that comes into contact with it. Compared to what is happening today in our life, even the existential absurdity of Kafka no longer seems so gloomy and hopeless.

At the finish of its existence, the regime naturally and predictably plows out of all the same extraordinary and more or less living, even those who fully support it, but want to show at least some unauthorized initiative and independence. The grayness, tightly fastened into the bureaucratic uniform, and meek subordination - only they are in demand today and in honor of the authorities of those who are in power.

With mild nostalgia, even the “political puppeteer” of the Surkov with his “controlled democracy” and other political technological kunshtuki is recalled. Or the “cute accountant” from St. Petersburg, who dared, albeit with trembling in his voice, to enter into a public discussion, if not from the very first, then with the second head the ruling pulling-tolerack. And in Khrushchev’s colorful Luzhkov, who was not he who publicly stated that he was not, but his wife is a successful Moscow entrepreneur, who “due to the loss of trust” was replaced by the faceless Sobyanin, whose wife, by a strange coincidence, also turned out to be an entrepreneur. And who will remember at least the names of most ministers of the current government and the heads of the regions?

Today, the political rubers of the regime are “simple, like faceted glass” Volodin, direct ideological heirs of the pathos Bolshevik heroes who dispersed the legal authorities and betrayed relatives and friends-Zheleznyak and Yarovaya, which is symptomatic, as well as similar to the omnivorous Komsomol carriers of the 80s of Burmats, convicted by bloggers in dissertation plagiarism, and others like them. Compared to these characters, even awarded for faithful service, the position of vice -rector Markov looks like a light of political thought. And what is the interpreter of the words and deeds of the leader of the Sterhs of the sands with an empty wandering look, like that of the Bulgakov Varenuha, who was forbidden to lie and rude, but only by phone?

The hopeless grayness of thoughts and the darkness of cases descend from gaping heights of power and cling to all pores of Russian life.

Corruption blooms with magnificent color and acquires more and more new forms, such as, for example, a corruption racketeering with the participation of state control, law enforcement and judicial authorities. Caste of the “untouchables” is no longer afraid of anything and acts brazenly and almost openly. And those who lose in corruption fights and are not directly included in the highest caste, are given the opportunity to freely leave the country so that during the investigation they do not bother the excess and do not swim to the surface, which affect the most-seni. This is of course humane than in China, where losers are destroyed physically. These are the current rules for the fight against corruption pandemia, which serves as the main system mechanism of the entire state machine and the main tool for inter -plane showdowns.

The struggle for the "national treasure", oil and gas, sharply aggravated and acquired the nature of the open war of everyone against all. Even the most, to put it mildly, ignorant, it became clear that the possibilities and terms of enrichment due to the sale of natural resources are melting before our eyes. Sichin is fighting with Timchenko, Dvorkovich or those who stand behind him - with Sechin, and Timchenko and Miller. More cautious, like a promise, fix profits and run from a sinking ship.

The state is falling apart right before our eyes, since the authorities who are in power to manage it are not able to. The most egregious situations are trying to resolve manually, demonstrating the complete impotence of the “vertical of power”. Instead of managing the state’s affairs, there are an advertising campaign competing in mediocrity that the leader of the Sterhs, then a nanovnovative lover of gadgets, who annoy even the most devoted supporters of the regime, and imitation of violent activity according to Soviet canons. At first - the punishment of the innocent, starting with those who were appointed responsible for the non -fulfillment of the behaviorally impossible election promises of the “national leader” for trillions of budget rubles that there is nowhere to take. And, as usual, the rewarding of the non -investigated, those who need to be caressed in order to propagate and demonstrate the "popular support" of the regime.

The current authority is not able to prepare to any external challenge, technogenic accident or natural cataclysm, and the post -fact is also not able to quickly and effectively respond, and the unreasonable people declare this. The collapse due to the snowfall, which annually becomes an unexpected spontaneous disaster for the authorities, this time on “connecting the two capitals of the country's main transport artery” is a visual manifestation and bright symbol of the collapse of the current government.

Despite the fact that our fellow citizens have long been trying to live on the principle of “we are on their own, and power in itself”, “even if you are not engaged in politics, politics will still take care of you”, which has become known thanks to Machiavelli, no one canceled. Yes, and how to cancel it in today's Russian realities.

The entire system of law enforcement and judicial authorities, which must protect people from crooks, thieves, bandits and other evil spirits, protects the ruling regime from people and, forgetting for the sake of personal selfish interests about professional honor and dignity, has turned into a tangle of gnawing agents of the organized crime group. Warriors did not even turn into merchants, as General Cherkessov cried out two years ago, but into candid extortionists and bandits. Today, our citizens are more than bandits and rapists, they are afraid of law enforcement officers, first of all, newly -minted policemen, who remain, if they take their attitude towards people, former “cops”. And no wonder. Every day, the Internet and even state media report on the next atrocities “on duty” of valiant law enforcement officers, their unbridled behavior on the roads and shooting at living targets, which leads to death of innocent people.

Things are no better in such hypersensitive areas of our lives as health and education.

In healthcare, there is a shortage of professionally trained doctors and qualified medical personnel, which inevitably leads to an increase in the number of medical errors, insufficient equipment of hospitals and a clinic with the necessary diagnostic and medical equipment and drugs, the actual destruction of the medical care system in rural areas and small settlements, on one side. On the other hand, a galloping increase in medicines and paid medical services, increasing bureaucratization with the so -called free medical care, indifference and cynicism, boorish attitude, administrative arbitrariness and corruption extortion. As a result The average life expectancy, even according to official figures, has barely reached 70 years, and for men it is only 64 years old. And according to the 2010 census, the population over eight years since 2002 decreased by 2.3 million people. So all the glory of Alfa-Samets, who personally allegedly solved the demographic problem, in fact turned out to be an empty ringing.

Only the lazy does not speak about a catastrophic decrease in quality and the actual collapse of primary and secondary education today. An accelerated pace, especially in recent years, has also degraded higher education. Here, the flow of bureaucratic requirements and fictitious quality indicators, which generates the nutrient medium for new forms of corruption and destroys everything non -standard and creative on its path, has already broken off the administrative horizons of universities and invaded professors and teachers directly. Today, university teachers should fill out many different meaningful, bureaucratic forms in paper and electronic form and prove their professional suitability not only by the number of “scientific publications”, which, as practice shows, are easily falsified and freely bought, but also certificates from the narcological and psychiatric dispensary, as well as the absence of criminal records. But what else can be expected if the Ministry of Education over the past years is headed by characters who have a very vague idea of ​​the real state of affairs in education? This was clearly demonstrated by the current minister, who stated that "receiving 20-30 teachers either of a low -level one or earnings in different places." He does not know for sure that the official salary of the professor is 12,050 rubles, an additional payment for the degree of Doctor of Sciences 7000 rubles and the most remarkable payment “Compensation of the PPS for Literature”-150 rubles, and universities pay a professor to the notorious 30-40 thousand in the form of a personal allowance.

And as long as the Professor’s wages are twice as lower than the undoubtedly also very important work of the driver of the electric train in the Moscow metro, there can be no talk of any increase in the human capital of the country. Namely, this capital, created, primarily in the field of education, is the main national property, resource and an indicator of the quality of development of a modern state.

But the most gloomy and dangerous is that a regime professionally unsuitable for managing state affairs, which seeks to maintain power by any means, raises the muddy flows of aggressiveness, ignorance and obscurantism from the bottom of society.

Through controlled by the media, he creates a traditional image of an external enemy for Soviet propaganda in the person of “insidious and aggressive US and NATO, which weave a global conspiracy against Russia”. Assuming that the possession of nuclear weapons and reserves of natural energy, in itself gives the status of superpower, the regime on the world arena behaves like an unbalanced punks from the gateway and does not understand that, with the current state of things in the world, only “scares hedgehogs with such a naked back”, causing perplexity and neglect-irony attitude. A characteristic example of such absurd behavior is the “symmetrical answer” of Minister Lavrov to the “Magnitsky Act” adopted in the United States. At the same time, in society there is an aggressiveness for the outside world and the desire for isolationism, for a special, which is different from the whole world of development.

The image of the inner enemy creates the regime as a black -intensive image of the enemy of "faith, king and fatherland." He deliberately split the society, encouraging the fundamentalist and nationalist obscurantism, the public attacks of the “Orthodox boredom”, the “mummers of the Cossacks” and other “radio studies for the Russian people” on representatives of a more educated and enlightened part of society, in which protest sentiments are growing. He uses television provocateurs and hacators in order to drown public consciousness in aggressive slopes of custom-made mammoth “investigations”, Wasserman “News” and Pushkovskaya “analytics”, low-grade entertainment programs and talk shows, in schizoid predictions and clicoes of vests and fortunetellers, traditionally produced in a large number On the eve of the crash of autocratic boards. And he naively hopes that he can keep this aggression and anger in society, a muddy stream under his full control.

Egyptian darkness covered Russia, and through it the threatening flashes of the blood-brown sunset of the ruling regime, fraught with the collapse of the state, are already emerging.

Author - Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor NIU HSE and RUDN

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