Izvestia opened a discussion about conservatism

On February 25, with an article (in fact, an authorized summary of an interview given literally the day before to the Rossiya newspaper) by Mikhail Leontyev, The Union of the Sword and Plowshare, Izvestia opened a discussion on the topic "Is the slogan "Russia without Putin!" Capable of uniting the opposition.

M.Leontiev believes that yes, he is capable. And he is trying to explain what provoked such a "dislike" of the "radicals" for Putin: firstly, * "no matter how jarring it may be, the restoration of controllability of the security forces and the repressive apparatus (Hereinafter - highlighted by the author - ed. ). Not efficiency, unfortunately, yet, namely manageability"; secondly, "the resuscitation of vital interests, primarily in the near Russian space . Russia is not self-sufficient as a sovereign country without the near abroad of the" post-Soviet space. "Even economically. All the more vulnerable politically. That is, we are talking about the restoration of the Russian state as a subject foreign world policy , the retention of sovereignty. Here it must be borne in mind that in the modern world a very small number of states have real sovereignty. The rest either have no chance of sovereignty, or delegate it more or less voluntarily to their "big brother". Real sovereignty, if we exclude international scumbags, possess along with the United States, China, India, Russia.Neither Germany, nor Great Britain, nor Japan are essentially sovereign.

As for Russia, for it the preservation of subjectivity is not only a matter of civilization and culture, it is a matter of survival. As for Russia, for it the preservation of subjectivity is not only a matter of civilization and culture, it is a matter of survival. Russia is not Mexico or the Czech Republic. It cannot exist as a piece of some integrated project "*. (In fact, Russia has never lost its foreign policy subjectivity. But it is absolutely clear that by this concept M. Leontiev means the status of a "great power", even a superpower. However, in this case, the statement its restoration is highly doubtful - ed. ).

M.Leontiev believes that there are two options for uniting the anti-Putin opposition - "oligarchic" and leftist. Both, in his opinion, are disastrous for the state: * "Putin as a political phenomenon was born from this very feeling of national humiliation and the demand for revenge. The meaning of the current course, the meaning of the second term is to satisfy this demand for revenge in a civilized, non-catastrophic form. This is resuscitation and modernization countries in conditions of normal, civilized, tactically and strategically adequate relations with the outside world, primarily with world centers of power, regardless of whether they like the Russian revival or not. the demand for revenge will not be satisfied in a civilized way, if we miss this chance, then an attempt at revenge will certainly be made, the demand will be satisfied, but in an uncivilized and catastrophic way.

That is, the so-called second option is possible not so much as the result of some kind of political game, but if, roughly speaking, "we fail", that is, as a disruption of Putin's modernization. Or it may turn out to be the next, no more fleeting, phase of the national catastrophe after the attempt of the first option. Simply put, the oligarchic restoration, followed by a criminal-fascist reaction, followed by the collapse and fragmentation and disappearance of Russia . This is a full range of specific options for implementing the slogan "Russia without Putin"*.

Sources

• Leontiev Mikhail. Union of sword and plowshare // News. 2004. February 25.