rise of the Guardians

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“Why is the favorite national game in Russia - football?” The new Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, and to himself - not without light ergency, asked: “I see our true tendency to moral self -torture.” It is not worth judging by Vladimir Rostislavovich strictly: like many, by the word “football” he, most likely, meant the Russian football team, which - despite some consonance - is at all the same.

However, I would like the least to talk about football today. That's why, probably, I remembered for the ministerial reasoning, not the Zenit football club, as it might remember, and not even the Anji football club, but-I would never have thought! - The Public Chamber of the Kirov Region: as if slipping in meaning with a narrow near -football theme towards a wide submitted, as if panicadilo - with an unhealthy panic in the poems in the verses of George Antonov*.

Not a single power structure, not to mention commercial, can probably boast of the equally high level of information activity in the region today, which is demonstrated by the Public Chamber. Not a single local discussion platform - minus, perhaps, a couple of virtual ones - will not compare with it in the assortment of issues proposed for discussing and, especially, in terms of this discussion. Activists of what other movements are sometimes not illuminated in working groups and hearings, the functionaries of which other parties ... For some reason, they only start to look at their homeland, as its fans at the Euro 2012-that is, with poorly hidden disappointment and irritation, looked at the Russian football team. Why?

“Previously, I admitted the idea that the chamber was created only so that civil activists could“ let the steam ”, and, therefore, is an institute, though useless, but harmless. Today I am not sure of this, ”one of the regulars shares his observations with me. - Everything is twisted much cunning. The chamber does not just create the illusion that the public opinion has been heard and taken into account; The chamber creates the illusion that it is the Kirov community, thus ensuring a public cover for other very dubious and ill -conceived initiatives of the executive power. And we, the throat at her events, involuntarily become the accomplices of the scam. ”

“Yes, but why - in that case,” I began. And then he stopped giving up - in time remembering about the Minister of Culture, football and our true tendency to moral self -torture.