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Protest reformatting
The rally on March 10 returned to Moscow the vigor of the spirit and overcame it, as he rightly wrote V your own Facebook Cyril Rogov “Pushkinskaya Syndrome” is a short -term decline in the spirit, “everything is lost, Putin won. And the sun will no longer grow up. ” Thus successfully falling on the eve of the rally, two holidays gave time to sleep, relax and realize that, in addition to the predictably shameless return of Putin, on March 4, we brought us two good news at once: firstly, the strong corps of observers in Moscow slowed down the scope of falsification-up to the point that they talk about sample counting in some areas.
Of course, the final “slightly less than 50%” in Moscow is also a political decision that says that they decided to surrender the capital-undoubtedly, fearing the riots. So rallies gave the result - but without the effective work of observers this would not have happened: after all, it is they who in recent months give the main food for civil protest.
The second good news of these elections is the results of the municipal elections and the victories of independent candidates, which were underestimated at first due to the results of the “great vote”, the nomination of which was largely inspired by the events of December. These two topics: observers as a characteristic of the Putin regime and a new generation of municipal deputies as a look into the future - and became the leitmotif of the Saturday folk gathering on New Arbat.
It was such a reporting concert demonstrating the results of the work of a three -month -old protest stars: young deputies and observers lit on the stage. Sergei Parkhomenko in his last word from the stage noticed that his They ask for The scenes " Who All these People ” regarding the speakers on stage. These are the same new faces and leaders of protest, on the absence of which all these years blamed us. Perfoman Udaltsova (“Seryoga, come on!” - shouted in the crowd), of course, brightened up the rally, but the greatest delight of the audience caused the words that we first had a real chance to clean all this evil spirits - at least on a Moscow scale.
Became an Internet star before the deputy, Maxim Katz said O what u them Now There are 7 independent deputies Against 8 United Russia , and if they had several more candidates, they could already withdraw the head of the council, for example, having defeated the vertical of power in a single area of Moscow. But the main thing, by his example, he showed and loudly, throughout Moscow, said today that if such as him (referring to his slightly exaggerated image of the “Jewish boy”), without sponsors and political experience, can win, then the path to the local elections is opened to everyone.
Other speakers, whose names - have not yet remembered, talked about the Moscow City Duma, where since 2009, United Russia has Luzhkovsky 91%. The next elections in the MGD in 2014 - after only 2 years, and this will be a kind of truth: EP or her successor to party lists and disguised united Russia in single -mandate will have to break through with the battle, under the close attention of the corps of observers and having strong independent candidates against themselves and - I hope - new opposition parties.
In general, while the most tight analysts continue to troll the protest with the question: “What are you, in fact, are going to do next?” - Moscow has already given an answer. The protest that began in Moscow, having looked around, refused premature federal ambitions: yes, Big Russia has not yet supported us (but did not support? Putin outside the MKAD does not even know Churov), but nothing prevents us from restoring order in our own house.
After all, after all, it must be admitted that the protest in Russia can win now, in the absence of a single candidate from the opposition, only as a result of the coup. Otherwise, any active actions - at least even the capture of the CEC and the Kremlin - would only strengthen the Pro -Putin consensus in the regions frightened by Moscow riots.
And in this context, the “indisputable” victory organized by Putin and six years of his next name of stability is a great gift to protest, which guarantees the growth of his social base by the very fact of the Putin election, his daily presence on the agenda as - again - the president of Russia. And the opposition has time to gather forces and ensure-in the 2014 elections to the Moscow City Duma and the State Duma in 2016-a peaceful interception of power just at the moment when it will already be impossible to sit on the national leader who extended chairs.
He secured this fate on March 4 with the inevitability with which tyrants always create mortal enemies for themselves. And there is nothing wrong if the capital becomes a shooter of changes - our special position gives special opportunities. And the best that we can do now is not to decide for the country how to live, but with your example to show the rest of Russia an alternative image of the future. The image, which we - from the corner of our eyes, as if raising the veil of the coming years - were able to see on March 10 on New Arbat.