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Surprising - near: President of Chuvashia Nikolai Fedorov announced his decision to join the "United Russia". The question is, what is so surprising? It's amazing that he's still not there. Seven dozen Russian governors have long been holding...

Surprising - near: President of Chuvashia Nikolai Fedorov announced his decision to join the "United Russia". The question is, what is so surprising? It's amazing that he's still not there. Seven dozen Russian governors have long been aligned in the party ranks. As expected, they see the chest of the fourth person and listen to the commands of the first. At the same time, no one is waiting for the command "freely" - everyone understands that the freemen are over.

Where to join and when is a personal matter, but it should be noted that joining United Russia in October 2006 is perhaps the same as joining the RCP(b) after October 1917. Years later, some personnel officer will look at the profile of a party member and frown slightly: “What are you, my friend, delaying? We, you understand, fought for a single and indivisible power, did not spare ourselves, and you were waiting for our victory? Oh well…".

Nikolai Vasilievich really hesitated. It is clear that when he was in charge of the region, he adhered to the general rules, but in the eyes of many people he looked like an impeccable democrat and almost an oppositionist. One can recall how in the late nineties he, the only one in the Federation Council, refused to stand up during the performance of the Soviet anthem, corrected and adapted to the new realities. Well, that is, sitting stood up for a free Russia.

Probably, not everyone has forgotten that before the presidential elections in Russia in 2004, our prominent democrats (Nemtsov, Ryzhkov and others) quite seriously considered the candidacy of Nikolai Fedorov as a possible alternative to Vladimir Putin. Nikolai Vasilyevich did not want to become a candidate from the democratic opposition, but at that time he did not write statements to United Russia either. Even this spring, already frankly expressing sympathy for “the only party capable of knowingly taking responsibility,” he still hesitated: “About joining the party, I cannot answer this question positively today. I was already in one party, the CPSU, and I'm not ashamed of it, because I fought for it to retain itself as a responsible force. But, alas, I was not able to convince the leadership of the CPSU, although there were attempts to make it a civilized European socialist or social democratic ... But they ended up the way they finished - fell apart, including because they did not listen to me.

Well, Nikolai Fedorov, after the happiest day in his life (as they used to say about the day of receiving a party card), will have the opportunity to compete for the reputation of another party in power. True, the people there are basically the same. Well, those who sang red party cards. And who said that this time these like-minded people will listen to someone? They will only listen to the text of the anthem: they would not miss the moment when it is corrected for the fourth time.