Burning will begin

From the editorial office. One of the most striking protest movements of the last year was the movement in defense of the Khimki forest. The leader of the movement of Yevgeny Chirikova told the Russian magazine about her vision of the future opposition and protest in Russia.

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The main problem of Russia is corruption. Recently, it has grown noticeably and strongly. This corruption plants us on a resource needle more and more. And the farther, the less chance of breaking out of this resource captivity and still begin to produce at least something.

I believe that any civilized society should set the use of not those resources that are, but its brain to produce something useful, that which really improves our life. I'm talking about high technologies, and not about the production of cheap consumer goods type of diapers. That would be great.

And what is the economy of the resource? If you carry out a rough figurative analogy, it resembles prostitution. Each of us can engage in prostitution, or can practice a little brain and start working with your head. Our state, unfortunately, is now like these unfortunate girls. Instead of earning our heads, we earn with other "parts of the body" - resources. This is a shame, because our potential melts every day.

I believe that the events will be further as follows. The current system of state power will devour more and more resources: it simply cannot do otherwise, it is based on this. It will be more and more affect the interests of citizens. And citizens will perceive the established system more and more as a threat to their habitat, lifestyle, and in general their existence. Accordingly, there will be more and more such movements as the Khimkinsky forest. After all, these are the movements of ordinary citizens who realized that the current system of state power simply came for their resource. For us, the forest is nature, and for the state it is a resource. There will be more and more such movements, so there will be more and more oppositionists. Unfortunately or fortunately, but I foresee just such a future.

Social movements are unlikely to replace or merge with the opposition, but they will increase randomly and exponentially. This scheme is generally characteristic of a corruption system. The system comes, your resources are climbing, and you have no choice but to protect them. For example, this is what happened to the Khimki forest. Sooner or later, people will understand that local problems are systemic in nature. The movement of the defenders of the Khimki forest is not reckoned with either the liberal or the systemic opposition, we are people with completely different views, including with non -liberal ones, there are even monarchists among us. So far, we exist as an absolutely separate phenomenon. But at some point, I do not know when this will happen (Europe needed about 40 years, probably), social and political movements will unite. In Europe, public movements in a civilized way switched to the rails of the political struggle through the elections, through institutions. What will happen in our country is difficult for me to say. But the fact that everything will somehow begin to seal, for sure.

Recent events on Manezhnaya Square are one of the examples of such a seething. It seems to me, as Grebenshchikov said, the topot of the horses of the Apocalypse is already heard. After all, nationalist riots also preceded the Russian revolution. Then there were Jewish pogroms that preceded the change of regime.

I hope that there will be no revolution, because I am against revolutions. But these events can be the precedence of the change of existing regime. I am not saying that this will happen right tomorrow, but the fact that this is a bell is obvious to me. This force was fed by the ruling power. Flying out with the ultra -right, in the end, and led to the fact that the hamster had grown into a bear and that now it is not clear to do with him.