The results of the week. We came for Zimin. Expected

There is no doubt that the closure of the Dynasty Foundation Dmitry Zimin, which may follow after the attack undertaken by the Russian authorities, is one of the main events of the outgoing week. Just because this fund has been holding an important niche in that part of Russian society all over the past years, which still does not identify itself with the ruling regime and tries if it does not resist this regime in various ways, then at least somehow fenced off from it. And it is more or less obvious that in the foreseeable future to fill this niche, to replace Dmitry Borisovich with his “post” who wish to find.

The attack on the main philanthropist in Russia is carried out according to all the classic canons of the genre. One unit of the Kremlin announces the Dynasty Foundation “Foreign Agent”, and another breaks the page in the FB belonging to its founder, and publishes false information on it, allegedly explaining the reasons for the dissatisfaction of the authorities. Zimin, they say, has financed this opposition, what do you want?

Last Wednesday, the Liberal Mission Foundation, led by Evgeny Yasin and created by the same Dmitry Zimin, conducted the next celebration of the winners of the Polit -Lose -Bank. On the sidelines and from the stage, the words of support sounded, people expressed a careful hope that this ceremony would give, not the last, indignant, were indignant. Say, how did the villains dare?! They have nothing left for the saint!

Meanwhile, the grounds on which the current Russian authorities decided to destroy the main really educational project of the country, in my opinion, are absolutely obvious. Because real education is not only (and not so much) the distribution of grants by a promising scientist, the publication of thematic books, and the support of entire scientific areas. Although in this field the Dynasty Foundation achieved amazing successes (the most detailed and detailed analysis of the activities of the Foundation gave Sergey Parkhomenko and Mikhail Gelfand on the pages of Hedgehog). Enlightenment of this scale, first of all, forms a certain environment (far from only scientific), creates a social atmosphere in which you can breathe and create. And this environment does not combine with the main ideological trend of the Kremlin. The trend for wildness, obscurantism, to destroy living thought and freedom of expression in the broadest understanding of these words.

In one bowl it is not possible to mix Zimin and Kurginyan, because these substances cannot interact literally at the molecular level. And most importantly, this incompatibility is blatantly obvious and poses a direct threat to the uniformity of the Russian public swamp. Dmitry Zimin is the same antidote that can ultimately neutralize (or at least weaken) the action of the poison, daily, hourly injected today into our public consciousness. So they try to take him out of circulation. In order not to violate the power of the authorities to form a substantial agenda, so that he does not spoil with his educational activity of a uniform picture of the “Russian world” based on the patterns of Kremlin propagandists.

It is funny that commenting on the attacks on the Dynasty Foundation took up not only from the camp of the enlightened public. The State Duma deputies, as they should, immediately set to search for excuses for the barbaric decision of the Ministry of Justice. And, you will laugh, they found them overnight! He, they say, holds his money abroad! Why not the Zimin not transfer them to Sberbank? And there would be no complaints about the activities of the Fund ...

And, I am embarrassed to ask, does the Central Bank of the Russian Federation do not hold our common money abroad? Would you like, gentlemen of the deputies, to recognize the Central Bank with a “foreign agent”? No? Then fall off from Zimin!


Photos Sergey Savostyanov/TASS and Maria Olendskaya/Hedgehog