The form is more important than the content

The Public Chamber is drowning in searcling with the struggle against extremism and xenophobia, in addition to the "specialized" state bodies, the Public Chamber will now be engaged. This decision was made by the chairmen of the commissions at the OP of the third meeting. In addition to anti -fascist activities, representatives of the people will open the public reception, prepare a report on the state of the Russian army and propose specific measures to combat the "Devil".

At the last meeting of the Council of the Chamber, there were few journalists: two or three representatives of agencies, a couple of newspaper men and one television operator. Loud statements and a stormy polemic are no longer expected from the Public Chamber, since several respected people discuss the regulations, argue about the forms of documents and announce plans for the current year in a row.

This time, the main topic of the meeting was to determine the circle of issues of the upcoming plenary meeting. The first paragraph of the April meeting will be, at the suggestion of the Chairman of the Commission on Tolerance and Freedom of Conscience, Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Valery Tishkov, a draft program to counteract extremism. Already in the near future, writing a final document will be engaged in a working group consisting of representatives of various commissions, members of various non -governmental organizations that were not part of OP, and even representatives of the diasporas.

The preparation of the “Army report” was entrusted to the chairman of the commission on public control over the activities of law enforcement agencies, law enforcement agencies and the reform of the judicial legal system Anatoly Kucheryen. He will be helped by Alexander Chistrov, who dealt with social development, and Yaroslav Kuzminov, who heads the commission on the intellectual potential of the nation.

At yesterday's meeting, it became clear that it would not be easy to come to a consensus on the content of the final document to social activists. Some suggested discussing not the material difficulties of the military, but rather moral. Vyacheslav Glazychev, chairman of the regional development commission and local government, argued with them: “Who, like not us, will solve housing, financial and other problems vital for our military personnel. It is no secret to anyone that the profile departments do not deal with these issues. ”

Karen Shakhnazarov and Leonid Roshal could not withstand a two -hour discussion of the regulations of the parliamentary meeting and forms of the document (social activists offered to write either a resolution, then a whole program to counteract terrorism). The director and doctor demanded a specific solution to problems, not empty conversations. “So we seek a meeting with Fradkov, but what will we discuss there? Once again, the interaction of the chamber and the authorities? - Roshal was perplexed. - Maybe it is worth asking him: why are there not specific health resolutions, and not to discuss bureaucratic issues once again? ” Shahnazarov echoed him: “I also propose to discuss only the most pressing issues, and let them be only two or three, and not twenty -eight. No need to put everything in one heap. ”

But their voices remained not heard. Discussion of preparation for the second plenary meeting at the Chamber Council dragged on until late in the evening. Social activists did not even have time to approve the list of bills announced in advance, which are going to undergo examination. They diverged late in the evening, and through bored persons the luminaries of medicine, architecture and advocates were clear that none of them still understood why they should solve organizational issues that any middle -sized handler would easily cope with.

03/14/2006 / Olga Pavlikova, the material was published in the newspaper No. 43 of 03/15/2006.