What is good about these decrees? My fellow businessman said: "The roofs have gone ...". The creation of numerous special services (and there are 12 of them today) that have the right to conduct operational-search activities - that is, wiretapping, outdoor surveillance, etc., led to ...

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what is good in these decrees? My fellow businessman said: "The roofs have gone ...". The creation of numerous special services (and there are 12 of them today) that have the right to conduct operational-search activities - that is, wiretapping, outdoor surveillance, etc., led to the criminalization of the special services themselves. The tax police, as well as the police, have become roofs for small, large and medium-sized businesses, competing to see who has the strongest roof. FAPSI has become a commercial organization: look at their business offers on the Internet (decryption, encryption services ...)

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Selling government telephones for money has made the Kremlin talks themselves a laughing stock. The abundance of printouts of conversations of senior officials became a method of blackmail and black PR, not to mention the fact that FAPSI, created on the basis of three departments of the KGB of the USSR, in which there were 22 generals, turned into a federal monster, where the number of generals exceeded two hundred. Now, I'm afraid, President Putin, given his warm feelings for the generals, will need all of them (including the generals of the Federal Tax Service) to look for new places.

The return of border guards to the FSB can be beneficial for the protection of borders even for one reason. Today the budget of the FSB is twice the budget of the FPS. Maybe older brothers will share? ..

This is good. And now it's doubtful. The creation of the State Committee for Combating Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is a long-awaited event. It is planned to increase its staff to 40 thousand people. But who will these people be? If you throw all the staff units of the Federal Tax Service for the fight against drugs, then it is possible that one of them will become a roof for the drug lords.

Random people in power are a scourge for Russia. People who do not mind their own business (and the Department for Combating Illicit Trafficking in the Ministry of Internal Affairs has always been in the pen) can discredit the government itself. We have already started the locomotive forward, forgetting to attach wagons to it. This is the danger of hasty decisions.

I understand that Viktor Cherkesov (the recent presidential envoy in the Northwestern District, and now the head of the State Committee for Countermeasures ...) is a friend and classmate of our president. But from his experience in the fight against drugs, only one episode remained in my memory - it was the fifth department of the Leningrad KGB, in which Cherkesov worked in the eighties, that threw 5 grams of marijuana to the famous writer Konstantin Azadovsky, for which he received two years of Kolyma (later all the sentences were annulled, Azadovsky was rehabilitated, and the entire secret operation of the "five" of the Leningrad KGB was documented exposed) ...

And now about the dangerous. I do not believe that now the FSB of the Russian Federation can be the same political monster as the KGB of the USSR. We know many examples when the leaders of the FSB at various levels were more engaged in their own business than in defending some new national idea. And therefore, from this point of view, they are less dangerous than they seem.

But there is another danger - complete control over the economy. Often they push with iron elbows all those who want to enter the business without shoulder straps under fashionable jackets. There is another danger, a more serious one. Loss of civilian control over power control. Even the State Duma today has to churn out new laws retroactively, which turned out to be lower in status than decrees.