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And tomorrow?

December 16, 2010 Anton Oresh

Putin knows everything, but commented later. Medvedev is in the know, but will speak out later. Sobyanin at a diplomatic reception tells how warmly we will meet guests at the World Cup in 2018. This is the reaction of our rulers to what happened in Moscow on Wednesday. From all over the city, from different metro stations there were reports of skirmishes, about attacks, about detained, wounded, about groups of Caucasians and radicals.

My friends told how masked guys ran past them - many guys - and there was not a single policeman around. However, on every corner you cannot put a policeman. At each station and at each car you do not organize a guard.

But what in this case means "everything is under control"? This does not mean anything! You can’t control the elements. They make up each other's meetings at the Manezhnaya or at the Kyiv station-and the whole city knows that on such and such a battle will be a battle at such and such. The city goes to a siege. Shops do not work, close the metro, the streets are blocked, thousands of riot police, buses, dogs. But they still gather, go, chant, beat each other. It is very difficult to stop, even despite the fact that time and place are called in advance, in a few days.

But soon they will stop calling time and place. They will begin to catch each other without warning, anywhere, anytime. And what will happen then? The police will run after teenagers on escalators? So will everyone grab everyone in a row? Close shops and metro stations? On duty on the platform? And we will be afraid to enter this metro and generally appear in crowded places? To be afraid of the Caucasians and at the same time "Slavic brothers"? We somehow did not think that we would be in wartime in the front-line city.

But do not lose heart - after all, we are lucky! Winter is on the street, but it would have been in the summer, the people would have come an order of magnitude more - and by the cold, the “churok” is not to catch the hunt for everyone.

And most importantly, our luck is that the Russian football championship has already ended and will resume only in three months. And imagine that every week we would have eight matches and each match would be a potential explosion. How do you like the game "Anji" - "Spartak"? Or a match of two Spartaks in Nalchik? However, the arrival of the Terek or the same “Anji” is also a worse Manezhnaya to the capital, I assure you! But the dashing trouble began. For three months, the audience will just reach the desired condition. Every weekend and every Wednesday (or perhaps on other days) we will have interethnic massacre with the participation of a riot police that traveles traffic jams on the metro and drives around the city with sticking out languages, and by March the warring parties are just trained to turn the football arenas into a colos.

And our leaders somehow comment on it later. When a crowd of advisers writes a suitable text to them. Because they themselves have nothing to say besides empty banners. Because they have no idea what to do with it. Because Vasya Yakemenko is responsible for working with youth. And for the national question they are responsible for the police and the migration service collecting tribute from visitors.

They thought that there was no terrible Limon’s beast and that the steepness of power is when the five hundred riot police are on a hundred “disagreed”. Then they really have everything under control. But as they said in my favorite film "Big Lebovski", "then shit of fatter surfaced." 

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