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Waiting for a miracle
New Year's mood: the fragile happiness of being against the background of political repression
The outgoing year will be remembered not only by the deepening economic crisis, but also by increasing political repression. Exactly a year ago, for example, Oleg Navalny was behind bars.
Entertaining numbers
Today is December 30. And I have been sitting for 364 days.
It seems that they gave me 3.5 years, and I felt it like 3 years, but, having served 1 year and realizing that it was 2.5 more ahead, it is perceived all the same as 3 (probably, it’s all because of the zero signs for some reason by Easter-3 Easter and home).
But there is also a positive dynamics. Previously, I had 10 long dates (1 time in 3 months), now I am in strict conditions for serving a sentence, and there will be only 5 dates, so it seems that the deadline has decreased.
All with the upcoming 2016!
#Oleganatolyevich Gorpanisheshchekakiyatotroikulet
I call it “works as an encouraging dude” - a reminder that if he does not whine and does not lose his presence, then we can’t do this even more so, but we must work, do not be afraid of anything, standing on our own, achieving truth, justice and justice. A difficult profession, but Oleg copes, at least in my case - for sure.
- Results of the year or eternal Russian winter in a single chamber -
The year 2015 we met that Oleg Navalny was sent to the colony for 3.5 years for the fact that his brother was engaged in politics.
Peter Pavlensky New Year 2015 celebrated the bonfire on the Moscow embankment. “As you celebrate the New Year, you will spend it,” said Petya Pavlensky and left Gelman's gallery, where we celebrated 2015, on the icy embankment of Yauza, to burn. In November 2015, Petya made the main artistic action of the year, fanning the door of the FSB. 2016 Pavlensky will celebrate Butyrki in the camera.
In 2015, we learned that for political activity you can not only sit down, but also be shot in the center of Moscow.
The end of 2015, the arrests in the swamp business continue. On December 3, the anarchist Dmitry Buchenkov was detained - whom, the defense proves, was not in Bolotnaya Square.
Galerist Gelman conducted a charity auction in his gallery in support of Prisoners of Bolotnaya Square. The result is Gelman’s gallery no longer Gelman’s gallery: they didn’t forgive the auction, the gallery was squeezed out.
But there were humane state decisions in 2015: having condemned Vasiliev for 5 years, the court let her go on parole in two months.
Back in 2015, they destroyed sanctions products, because in the soul they did not <understand> what to do in a decline in oil prices. The Russians unlearned in stability and tightened more than a belt, while the Russian economic crisis again made a salary of $ 400 serious, a significant salary, as in the early 00s. In a number of cities of Russia, due to the critical debt of municipalities, city transport stops the fuel suppliers, the power engineers begin to turn off the light on the stairwells of apartment buildings (http://zona.media/online/crisis-online-3/).
The myth of stability is destroyed, the state is a new punk, and the rifle is a holiday, and everything flies to <Tartarara>. The New Year's table, by the way, will cost an average of 5 thousand 790 rubles this year, which is 28% higher than a year earlier. So it is better to save and sleep on December 31.
And to see in a dream, as Peter Pavlensky, Oleg Navalny and Bolotnaya Prisoner Alexei Gaskarov celebrate the New Year in their prison chambers, pouring into plastic cups from soluble potatoes, the dummies of Duchesi.
Amen.
Those who celebrate the New Year behind bars are designed to help the initiative of "Tales and stories for political prisoners":
We thought how else to support the prisoners of Bolotnaya and other people sitting for nothing (or rather, for the fact that in this slave country they dare to feel free). We want to make their life behind bars a little brighter. This is especially important now, on the eve of the New Year and Christmas.
Writes from the will are very necessary that will not only help to let in a sip of fresh air into the space of a small chamber, but also become a constant reminder of the jailers that we are holding the guys in the circle of their close attention.
And this is what we came up with. Especially for political prisoners, compose fairy tales and stories, you can continue, and send electronic letters through the mail of the “Rosuznik” or, even better, paper mail (then your fairy tale can be long and even illustrated).
Among those who can be supported in this way - Razvozhaev and Udaltsov, Sentsov and Savchenko, Pavlensky, Dadin, Oleg Navalny and many, many others. Letters to prisoners can be sent through the Rosuznik project . Thus, Roman Leibov , through whom Peter congratulates everyone on the upcoming holiday, is already corresponding with Peter Pavlensky :
Why has a wrench has recently earned with such a frightening intensity? There is, for example, such a theory:
Putin created a rather large repressive machine so that he was not overthrown as Yanukovych. He created it when there was a lot of money. Now the money is compressed, they press on the car on top: show the effectiveness (you need to cut costs). The machine begins to show effectiveness. It was created with a margin, repressive norms were accepted as options for freedom of hand.
A brief political science conclusion: a large repressive machine in conditions of reduction of resources with a high probability turns into a destabilizing factor. Most likely we will observe this next year more than once. The repressive system does not correspond to the current capabilities of the economy and the budget, it must be occupied with something or it goes into such independent swimming.
Clarification: this is not related to the policy of the regime in relation to the political opposition. Here to plant Ivan the Nepomnya or not to plant, to close Navalny or not to close, to run into a memorial or not to run into is only Putin. Here, the law enforcement car has no interests, this is its development cleanly: as they say, they will do it.
Yes, I agree with this. They were told "let's give the indicators" and "feed yourself" at the same time. They will go to the forest, some of the firewood.
One of the last news of the outgoing year is also built into the same sad series - a blogger from Tomsk sentenced to imprisonment for videos, "exciting hatred of the inhabitants of Donbass."
5 years of general regime for words, contrary to examinations and testimony of witnesses https://t.co/tyirclqvdd
- Leonid Volkov (@leonidvolkov) December 30, 2015 For example, Varlam Shalamov in 1937 was also given 5 years, as well as this unfortunate Tomsk blogger
- Pavel Pryanikov (@netovetz) December 30, 2015 - Why are you chasing? - I am a blogger https://t.co/y2nx5lmdoo
- Nikita Batalov (@nikbatalov) December 30, 2015
It is no coincidence that the Medusa editors awarded the Mediazon project of the Media of the Year:
... A strong team, led by Sergei Smirnov, made an interesting and mass publication about everything regarding the Russian punitive and judicial system. In addition, the agenda, so to speak, favored - in the year of strengthening the repressive apparatus, readers needed a project that would professionally, calmly, and in some places even distractedly talked about these repressions.
The title "Journalist of the Year" according to "Medusa" was awarded to Pavel Kanygin :
Pavel Kanygin from Novaya Gazeta is the main non -propaganda voice of the war in the east of Ukraine. He visited the opposite sides of the front many times, he talked about what was happening near Debaltseve just at the time when he was occupied by the armed groups of the DPR and LPR. He was the first of the journalists with Erofeev and Alexandrov, who are now being judged in Kyiv for participating in hostilities in the Donbass. At the end of the year, he summed up the results of the war, thoroughly talking about various aspects of the situation in eastern Ukraine - from the payment of pensions to a political system.
Oleg Kashin , who published an essay on Paul Kanygin , also agreed with the Evaluation of Medusa, and Oleg Kashin.
[Kanygin] was like a compass that calmed down after he was shaking in a magnetic field for a long time - from last year’s crossings with Boroday to the present, already in history, the epics of Alexandrov and Erofeev, who, abandoned by Russia and used by Ukraine, was only one real protector - in fact, Kanygin, equally honestly behaving and with their beloved parents in the Russian rear. Ukrainian Chekists in Kyiv, who does not want to play along with either one or the other.
In the Essay, Kashin justifies Kanygin's presence in the famous photograph in which Moscow journalists are captured by the editors standing in front of the Bar in the company of the former self -named premiere of the DPR. For this, Kashina is criticized:
Kashin wrote a bias of the DPR about the non -objectiveness of the “DPR” Kanygina. It's time to stop wondering
- Maryel (@maryel2002) December 30, 2015 Kashin glorifies Kanygin, who is skiing in a photo with a bandit and a mass killer. This is Russian journalism. I have no other for you.
- Pavel Senko (@senko) December 30, 2015
There is no other journalism, but there is good news: the editor-in-chief of Russia Today Margarita Simonyan decided to retrain into food bloggers. The beaver’s head recipe was not found in her debut New Year's note : the reader is invited to cook about the same thing that he ate the previous 25 years, that is, Olivier’s salad, chicken on a beer bottle and French meat.
Oh, Margarita Simonyan is the same from ET and X, who believe that if the meat is smeared with mayonnaise, it will become "French" from this
- Andrey Kozenko (@akozenko) December 30, 2015From some recipes - a pie with canned saira, sandwiches made of rye bread with sprats - blows the spirit of genuine austerity, but if you recall that Latvian sprats and other canned foods forbade to import Rospotrebnadzor, it becomes clear that in fact these dishes now look like a real attribute of a beautiful life:
In rye bread, cut off the crusts, cut in half, make toasts. Lubricate them with softened butter.
Cut the cucumbers with long thin ovals, put on toasts, lay two springs on top with a “walet” on top.
With Salad Olivier, too, now everything is not so simple:
One girl made Olivier with Turkish potatoes, and the New Year did not come for her.
- Peskova's mustache (@sandy_mustache) December 30, 2015 Olvier rose by 35% by 28% - products for a festive dinner. 39% of Russians do not have enough money for food and clothes https://t.co/xw4icpq4q
- Open Russia (@openrussia_org) December 30, 2015 Please keep emotions about prices with you Pic.twitter.com/dfezv8dwqz
- Anna Vellikok (@airly_ann) December 30, 2015
It’s frankly scary to look into the future.
The most popular toasts for the New Year, of course, will be "everyone is alive and good and thank God."
- Sergey D (@SD0107) December 30, 2015 The main intrigue of the coming year is whether we can fall even lower than in 2015.
- Boar of the brain ™ (@crazy_kutas) December 30, 2015
Although some commentators still hope for a miracle:
Quite a little left until the New Year, and we all wait for a fairy tale, wait for a miracle, wait for the fact that we will hear these magical words again: "I'm tired, I am leaving ..."
- Uncle Shu (@shulz) December 30, 2015
But Leo Rubinstein believes that happiness is still possible - no matter what. And joining him, I would like to wish the readers so that it still overtakes them.
On December 28, my mother died, right on New Year's Eve. She died in my arms. And on the 30th there were a funeral. And on the eve of the funeral, my brother and I scolded all over the district, trying to buy vodka for commemoration. For those who are younger, I remind you that it was the height of the Gorbachev anti -alcohol bacchanalia. Well, the New Year. We still got vodka. After the commemoration, one bottle remained, oddly enough. And on the 31st day late in the evening, when I realized that right now I absolutely need saving crowding, I took this bottle with me and went to one house with it, where my most close friends gathered. And among them, in the middle of their warmth and sympathy, I realized that life was ongoing. And it was, in general, happiness!
Then the memory of others is connected. Well, my mother, for example. That is, the memory that still became mine.
During the evacuation, in Ufa, she said, she remembered the meeting of the new 1943 year. On the newspaper, they were given a little vodka on cards. “And so,” Mom said, “we and I took this vodka and I diluted it with water, added citric acid and drinking soda there and a real champagne turned out. We clung to them. And it was terribly fun. " I am sure that it was not just fun, but that it was real happiness. Otherwise, I would not have been remembered.
Yes, and there was still a lot of happiness, you can’t remember everything. It, happiness, in general in wait for us everywhere. Didn't you know?
My dear! Relatives, friends, acquaintances and unfamiliar.
I, in fact, what do I want to say? I want to say that happiness is not a state at all, due to a number of external factors or events, outside of us. This, for example, is only all that is not always remembered, but when I recall, he hits such a heat! Happiness is just happiness and nothing more. And we do not catch it, but it is us. And from us it requires a real nonsense - do not lock, do not dodge, do not dismiss from it.
And it is the New Year with all its Christmas trees and other well or poorly organized, laborious, expensive, harmful to health, sparkling and shimmering miracles exists as familiar and reliable, which goes out roots in distant childhood and as a hot memory of it and much more, the background on which this sudden and piercing happiness has a good chance to sudden distinctness and irrefutable clarity.
And so I am from the whole soul that is available, and I wish you and myself, and to myself, and to all the rest of this one - contrary to all logic and the course of events, ridiculous, idiotic, impossible happiness.
With coming!
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Alya Ponomareva
Social Networks Editor Radio Liberty