In the Kremlin

Medvedev as a thing in himself

November 13, 2009 Vladimir Nadein

Of course, the speakers of Medvedev are simply bad. But only this one cannot explain the hopeless despondency, which is permeated by his next message to the country. He probably made his personal contribution to the long -awaited dialogue between himself and the people.

The president said, of course. The people, as he should be, was silent. Not surprising. These are the realities of the television world. However, for knowledgeable people, the performance began a little earlier than the schedule. Everyone was already sitting, and for a long time, when V.V. personally appeared in the aisle. Putin. He walked next to the Orthodox high priest. The Patriarch was in gold and silver, but the radiance seemed to come from the national leader. Therefore, the near ranks (distant ones did not show) joyfully jumped to their feet, turned around smiling faces to the aisle and burst out with stormy applause, as if tearing from the very hearts.

People in expensive jackets and solid memory gathered in this hall. Memory did not allow them to forget at least for a moment to whom they owe their steep jackets. There was a government selected by Putin. There were supreme judges appointed by Putin. The Prosecutor General and his deputies put forward by Putin. As well as deputies of both chambers - both from the main party, which gave himself to Putin’s full disposal, and the opposition, pleasant to Putin in all respects.

Putin sat between Gryzlov and Mironov, and an insanely gilded gate swung open, and our president appeared between the sashes of an unthinkable height in the proper proportion.

He carefully looked at me ... However, perhaps this is my mania of greatness ... He strictly looked at the television camera, that is, at each of us. Then he looked at the papers in front of him. Then he said something from which I sucked under the spoon.

He said that it would begin "again." He said that in the near future the process of gaining the status of the leading world power will begin again in the near future. But - on a new basis. Without oil and gas, without nuclear weapons. Because "all this was not created by us." Russia said, Medvedev, "again a comprehensive modernization is needed." Before that, he warmly responded about the Stalinist jerk from Russia Lapotnaya to Russia nuclear. And then he added that we will modernize Russia "on the values ​​of democracy."

From time to time the camera showed the hall. Especially when clapping. Here, too, stormy and prolonged, only I forgot in which place they excited them. Either when they mentioned democracy, or when they said the word "modernization". Because these are completely different things. I will try to explain my confusion on a specific example from a personal fate.

My mother was born shortly before the Lenin Revolution, and left shortly after the collapse of the USSR. Her whole life passed during modernization. In the middle of modernization, the war took the beloved husband. In the 49th, when they fought in Korea, she was proud of her first new crepeles dress. In the 53rd, the first cabinet appeared-before that, all the little hung on cloves in the wall. In the 66th, she almost died with happiness, buying a swing-coal. I always worked. After itself she left 15 thousand rubles, which inflation turned into dust. I could also tell something about my peers and to myself. After all, we also went to an excellent piece of modernization. But I don't want to. Firstly, ashamed. And secondly, there is no one.

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And all this - again? In half with Putin-Medvedian democracy?

Messages about the country's position in our everyday life were introduced by B.N. Yeltsin. Putin continued them, at first causing universal interest, so far it was not clear that all this was chatter. And the oaths that "we will not delay the country to bureaucrats, let them not hope." And curses to the thieves. And fairy tales about Portugal, which we are about to. And the willingness to persuade your Kremlin output before the dictatorship of the law.

Medvedev brought the meaninglessness of promises and assurances to the limit, which will not be easy to surpass.

The president lamented a lot of crisis. And then he interrupted, and he did not allow. In general, the analysis of the behavior of the authorities before and during the crisis is just a miracle. Everyone remembers that both of them, both Putin and Medvedev, solemnly proclaimed: Russia is an island of stability. Let Wall Street burn with a hellish flame-we will warm up the fire. Many, believed, overheated. Thousands of businesses collapsed, naively increasing volumes. Hundreds of thousands of naive families lost their savings, tied themselves with a bondage of car and apartment debts, which once became unbearable. From the island of stability, we turned into a country more painfully all of all prosperity that fell from the stairs. Politicians who start the country into such a dead end, must be driven. So they did almost everywhere. And only our lop -eared electoral cabbage prescribes a soft fasting chair: “Do not look for the perpetrators,” Medvedev said. - We ourselves did not do enough to prevent the crisis. We ourselves did not reorient production for the real needs of people. ”

Well, that “we” are not related to Rosneft and Gazprom - I already understood this. We assume that my mother, bypassing me and my grandchildren, directly conveyed her share of Sichin and Abramovich. But production! ... I remember well to myself that I did not oriented and reoriented any of the domestic factories. Grigory Yavlinsky - That yes, tried. Even before the appointment of D. Medvedev, the head of the Kremlin Yavlinsky, then the leader of the “Yabloko”, wrote a book. Such a small one, but literally screaming. About the fact that Russia has expired the most recent years in order to urgently get off the needle and diversify production. And for starters (for the very beginning and as an indispensable condition for success!) - to stop arbitrariness with property. Yavlinsky was not heard. Why do you think? Because there were only 3 thousand copies of the book’s circulation and was not enough for everyone? Or, in view of the incomplete, for that hour, the end of the case saw the dough?

However, it is not necessary to create the illusion of exclusive insight G.A. Yavlinsky. Together with him, they were just the same on the day of the day of the radio and the newspaper, which had not yet been completely drowned in the cooperative "Lake". There were governors, there were separate deputies and deputy ministers who proposed specific plans. All of them filled with a broken from power.

And now: "Do not look for the guilty." And it’s worth it, according to Medvedev, to join a positive program. This program consists in the fact that it is necessary to change the regulations of capital construction and create a technological base of competition. But God forbid touch the political "system that has developed." And then the angry grin: "And with those who will interfere with us, we will figure it out." It is very similar to a popular slogan from the previous modernization: "If the enemy does not give up, he is destroyed."

So young; Why did he forget so little and learned so little?

On the eve of the event described, there were many fortune -telling, what other demonstrations our speaker will offer corruption and corrupt officials. Nothing special. That is, nothing memorable. In addition to, perhaps, aphorism, which caused revival in the humane hall: “You can’t decide on the landings with lands, but you need to plant it,” - nothing special.

The continuity of the Boards has become a characteristic feature of this day. Medvedev called on science to take up arms against the flu. Involuntarily recalled L.I. Brezhnev, who turned to the president of the Academy of Sciences Alexandrov with a proposal to "invent a flu bomb." And about the armament of the army: "There is no need to reason - you need to acquire." And about war veterans, who, “no matter how difficult,” but must be provided with housing. And it is difficult because there are already 30 thousand of them. There were 20 million, 0.15 percent remained - but still the power is not in the rise.

Until now, there were 15 presidential messages about the situation of the country. This is the 16th. It lasted more than an hour and a half. Given the fact that the security service carefully felt at the entrance of each of the hundreds of honored guests, at least three hours were required for the fees. And to leave after checking-no, no. Not every elderly bubble can withstand this. But Medvedev entered the excitement. He sincerely liked to string good wishes on the great bureaucratic verbs: they must, must.

The government should ... our poor nearby government owe so much that it is even scary to list. It should stop theft in the Caucasus, but give the Caucasus more money for prosperity. It should prepare the democratization of the elections, but in fact, do not change anything. Armate the army with new missiles that can fly, and with new submarines that can emerge. Provide world championship on the Internet. Open new inexhaustible energy sources. More! Higher! Further! Deeper! Even deeper!

Neither Medvedev himself nor his assistants know how to speak with the people. A lot of political ambiguities. A lot of stamps filled. Clothing with secondary details, excess terms, semantic inconsistency, violation of logical sequence. Some kind of rotten, insincere pomp: "They won-we will win." All this, along with claims to increased intelligence, makes an oppressive impression. Putin, against the background of his substitute, looks like a Cicero. And - Sophocles. And - Stolypin. Most likely, it is in this comparison that the political highlight of the second presidential message was concluded. The confused, spitted, internally contradictory composition of the Kremlin humanities has only one obvious result. It is enclosed in the conclusions of those who were sitting in the chairs of the noble St. George Hall.

Medvedev was not listened at all like Putin. Putin is clear. Medvedev is still a thing in himself. For the period from the message to the message, the president seemed to leave several times like a challenge to an omnipotent prime minister. And now deeply wealthy, insightful to extreme cynicism, well -fed, but not at all overeating by the power of the patricians, once again pretended to be who to hold on and whom to throw. The conclusion is obvious even for those who will not be allowed to the Kremlin salary at the Kremlin. Putin, who watched with a slight squint, observing the attempt of the president enchanted by himself to play the Russian John Kennedy, can today with a light heart in Stalin's drink a bottle of Kinzmarauli.

It is very likely that just about the day of November 12, 2009 they will subsequently say: "She drowned."

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