Kadyrov's dead end

Should there be a Colonel Budanov Guard Street in Moscow? Don't think. When instead of signs “Akhmat Kadyrov Street” a sign with Budanov’s name appears, it is not very convincing even as a protest, because there are still more opponents of Budanov in Russia than supporters. And the overwhelming majority considers Budanov a tragic figure, a victim of the era, but certainly not a hero.

Should there be an Akhmat Kadyrov Street in Moscow? Don't think. In any case, in the biography of Akhmat Kadyrov, whatever his subsequent merits, there are facts that do not contribute to his popularity in Moscow. This should not have been done, in my opinion, even in order to placate and appease the Chechen Republic. She does not value external signs of attention too much. She is asking for 498 billion for socio-economic development until 2025. And since Russia somehow has no other achievements in foreign and domestic policy, except for peace in Chechnya, it will, of course, be given this money.

I would like to offer a third option, because when choosing from two – “the devil’s choice,” as Sergei Averintsev called it – you always have to choose the third. It seems to me that in Moscow it’s high time to make Pasternak Street, who did more to bring Russia and the Caucasus closer than Kadyrov (and I don’t want to compare with Budanov). In addition, his street still doesn’t exist even in Peredelkino.

In the Netherlands, in Zoetermeer, there is, but in Moscow, where he lived his life, there is none. Mandelstam once predicted a street named after him, but it didn’t come to fruition even in Voronezh: people there were offended that renaming it was expensive, it would be better to spend this money on something useful, like pensions or a playground. The view, of course, is very barbaric, but true, as Brodsky wrote, whose street does not exist not only in Moscow, but even in St. Petersburg.
In Moscow there is no street of Andrei Bely, the greatest Russian prose writer of the 20th century, where is Proust. There are no streets of Meyerhold, Kataev, Tynyanov, Shklovsky, Galich, Okudzhava, Voznesensky. There are no squares of Tatlin and Kandinsky - the great Russian avant-garde artists. And if you need something socially significant (literature has long been considered something unimportant in our country), finally make Politkovskaya Street. She did a lot for both Chechnya and Russia - much more than many of her contemporaries.

I understand that all this is a utopia. But I also understand that culture is the only way to remove insoluble contradictions and even transform them into great incentives. After all, everything in the world comes from these contradictions - but only with the help of culture. So all this is not so far from reality, and all these streets will definitely be in Moscow - you just have to remove from it those in whose honor, I’m almost sure, several outlying cul-de-sacs will someday be named.