Our business is a side

What do I think about the beginning of the successor operation?

That's exactly what I think. One person decides - he chooses his successor, he is not my wife, say, chooses. His country, his power, his successor, his Labra-Dor-he is more prominent. Logical?

Well, even if someone seems illogical to someone, it is in any case-so.

And, you see, “so” in Russian and in Ukrainian is not the same thing at all.

So, the first conclusion. It is confirmed what is known in advance - and still, it is always very useful to confirm again and again. Yes, we have the presidential election, or rather, the choice of the president. The choice of many candidates, but with one voter.

Banality? But, gentlemen, if you admitted that this is a banality (and I agree - yes, of course, banality), then after that all other discussions are some ... well, say, insanity, no? You (we), the most picket of picket vests, are not Putin’s personal friends, especially not his home psychoanalysts - so where, damn, we can know who he will choose? But, mercy, he doesn’t choose in vacuum, not by pure arbitrariness, but taking into account the objective situation, by the way, and taking into account the mutually exclusive opinions of the “society”? Yes, of course. But-again-where are we, picket vests, can we know how he takes into account these very opinions and the objective situation in the country and the world?

Old Mikhalych from Anna Karenina, whose political philosophy so delighted Tolstoy (he contrasted his rational fatalism with unreasonable “twitching” of various liberal -professional people), believed that “Alexander Nikolaich” was an anointed of God. Rather, Mikhailch probably didn’t think too much about it. The king is from God, well, what is there ... From here - logical fatalism in relation to power.

We know that Putin is an anointed of Yeltsin, we know many more or less believable, funny and non -supporting details of the origin of power. But all these details in no way cancel the main, simple and difficult fact: Russian society, like it to its individual members or not, just like 130 years ago,

a) submissively power

b) deafly separated from power

c) basically fatalistically refers to this.

130 million “Mikhalychi” are fatalistically accepted (with a grin, with a grin-the 21st century in the yard), 10 million “Sergey Ivanychi” (the liberal described by Tolstoy) bug-shumas-goals are crooked ... And they also accept. Yes, even (in-Tel-t-tu-a-l!) Trying their nostrils to catch some smell from some of the Kremlin kitchens and interpret this smell-to the best of their intelligence, of course.

No, it's not in Medvedev, even - it’s scary to say! - Not in Putin itself. And not in the Chekists, and not in cyclists, and not in mode. The case is in Ivanovo.

Of course, not in Sergey Borisych. The point is in the usual, normal Ivanovo, of which there are several million in Russia. What can I say ... in fact - we are all Ivanovs, even I (well, not at all Ivanov, I’m not even trying to join it!) - And you also understand, Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich. By behavior, by understanding, by position.

"The country of slaves is the country of gentlemen." Don't like it? Well so? Well, anyway what to do - tolerate. But by the way, the country is wide open - you (not you personally, but nobody personally), it does not hold! Like, but ashamed to admit? And you scold the slanderers of Russia - it will immediately become easier. It seems that they admitted that you are from the country of satisfied slaves, but recognized "with the transfer to enemies." So everyone does - patriots.

It is impossible to redo this. Proven by Gogol, Lermontov, Tolstoy. It was proved by liberals until 1917, the Bolsheviks, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin. It is proved by Russian history - is it clear to you? It is proved, if only because Putin is not kicking, not Napoleon, not Stalin, not a genius, not a tyrant, not an executioner, not a usurpator, did not make a coup, did not break anything through his knee, no one resisted him (it was rocking - it was, yes). Putin is not a creator of history. He is "Chekist, intelligence major and a wonderful family man." He is normal, medium, one-for-nas. Not “Byaka Putin” canceled the elections - do not be children of Novodvorskaya! Not “Buka Putin” “closed democracy” - do not be the children of Kasparov! Not the “darling of Putin” adapted “for itself” Russia - he himself adapted to Russia, under what is now called the “Russian system”. As said (like) Putin Sergey Dorenko: “We have the right people, Sergey! ..” It would not be correct! Putin himself is the flesh from the flesh, the bone from the bones of this people. Yes, of course, it is an element of the KGB system, but the cage of the folk organism, too. The contradictions here - as if to someone (for example, I) I did not want - no. In general, not Putin created Russia - you see, what a thing! This Russia created Putin, its “regime” - because such a regime is organic. Organized by our large raw material country, with old imperial glitches, with traditional “Orthodoxy-self-fence”, with fatalistic (and therefore courageous, drunk, beautiful, lazy, kind, rampant, limp, frantic, etc.) people. Your track is a rut of our history, you can’t jump out of it, no matter how much blood, how many muscles are neither tear. Eurasia-s ...

Russia is a good country. They say: "Well, we will ever live normally!" No. We will not "live" - ​​we live. We already live (or, if you like, we still live). Not all. Not the majority. But here I, the author of this article, can not imagine "all." I am a typical representative of the middle class. Average-by income (according to the Moscow measurement, by Moscow!), By education, by worldview, in moral and intellectual qualities. I work, I earn on my work, I use everyday freedom (and it is more important than political!) And I respect the climate of this country. I don’t admire - no, I don’t like neither police dirt, nor bureaucratic cold, nor public ice. I do not fall into xenophobia - no, I do not curse Europe for the fact that there is clean and warm. Of course, they are to blame for this, they, of course, are to blame for our dirt and cold, but I - unlike M. Leontiev, A. Pushkov and A. Gordon - forgive them, I have a wide Russian soul ...

So, our climate does not delight me, the stranger does not offend me. But the climate of this country (our country? Well, what else? “But we lie down in it and become it./ That's why we call it so freely - I recognize it”).

Therefore, do not ask who the president will be a successor. Not your sadness. Whoever needs it will be. Our business is small - to lower the ballot (by the way, you may not lower it, you can also lower it - democracy, you understand). No, I can, of course, pull the smell from the black kitchen of the Kremlin - and speculate. I am a professional. But over these days, professionals have already said so much that I have nothing to add on this issue.