Goodbye, affectionate Misha

Ella Pamfilova quit, and this event is almost forgotten: is it a joke, has passed three whole days. Bad news are forgotten quickly, which is facilitated by a completely bad background; All -Russian bee, for example, with fires and burners. In addition, it is not easy to recall what the Presidential Council for Human Rights was doing under her leadership. That is, there is no doubt that this organization is qualitatively better than many others, such as a secret police or ministry of sports, also obeying the guarantor, but this is the meaning of its activity - you can’t formulate it immediately.

You have to click your fingers for a long time, causing some suitable image from the past. Nothing is called. So, some lines of such as “Tsars to speak with a smile” roam in the mind, but what does the truth have to do with it and, moreover, the kings are incomprehensible. Rather, Pampilova and her colleagues from among the sane were engaged in careful lobbying for human rights ideology. In those specified framework in which it was not supposed to talk about lawlessness in Chechnya, and the word "Khodorkovsky" caused a short -term but complete deafness among the interlocutor. On the contrary, the word "scum" greatly excited individual members of the advice from the insane, and they rolled the pamphilova uniform.

In general, nearly six years ago, shortly after Beslan, when Putin offered Ella Alexandrovna this interesting work, it was necessary to choose - and she made a choice. The choice of painful, which is often faced with a decent person living in an authoritarian country. Like a hero at a crossroads. You will go to the left - you will get into the dissidents and disagreed. To the right - they will be written to the servants and guards. Therefore, the majority goes straight, scoring on public life and engaged in personal.

Go to the right is sometimes a courageous step. In any case, for a person who is not alien to the concerns of his reputation, but convinced of the useful properties of water, which sharpens the stone. And also in the fact that it is important for the country that people are good, not bad people near the vibrant rulers. For good people will give good advice and someday, sooner or later, the power that has experienced, they say, a sense of disgust for himself, he will listen to these tips. And there, what the devil does not joke, and he will see. Not in this generation, so in the following.

The naive or prudent servility of the intelligentsia-by-wing is ridiculed many times in the best creations of Russian prose and journalism, from Shchedrin to Lurie, but historical experience is ambiguous here. It happened that seasoned idealists, along with their power, rolled on an inclined plane, and it happened-and serfdom was canceled in jointly with the king (after all, the “kings” come to mind to mind), and the people were given freedom along with the Secretary General of the Secretary of General, covering it until the time of the ridiculous word “restructuring”. It happened differently.

That is, probably, decent people in this council, led by Pamfilova, were ready to endure, realizing that under Putin they could only serve intermediaries between unfinished society and the Kremlin, occasionally creating the so -called good deeds. In a confused country, voting as power to put on the soul, it seemed the only possible. And when Putin went to the premieres, appointing a freedom -loving Medvedev in his place, it looked like another proof of the correctness and foresight of those who went to the right. Could Putin be mistaken, like Andropov with Gorbachev? However, Vladimir Vladimirovich was not mistaken.

It is significant that both Pamfilova and Ombudsman Lukin at Putin, with whom everything was clear, quietly engaged in their human rights, and only now began to rebel. The speeches of Vladimir Petrovich in defense of the disagreements and the resignation of Pamfilova - the phenomenon of one order. Because patience is over. And the hopes laid on Medvedev were exhausted.

The chronicle of the last weeks before leaving the head of the human rights council is its continuous defeats. Pamfilova with colleagues opposed amendments to the Law on the FSB - Medvedev said that he himself composed and did not intend to reject them. The Pambilov heroes tried to convince the authorities that the demonstrators on the triumphal act in accordance with the Constitution - and they were again banned by the rally. Members of the Human Rights Council demanded the expulsion of Yakemenko from the post of head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs - and Medvedev did not even answer them. Although it was in the neck to drive Vasya after the “anti -fascist installation” on Seliger, and in any normal state, no official after such a shit and would not resist the chair - and Yakemenko survived.

Apparently, this was the last straw for Ella Aleksandrovna, but in essence it is not about her. About the time when they see and can not withstand the most loyal and patient. And in this sense, Pamfilova’s departure is an event even more sad than beating on the triumphal. And all the more sad that some three days have passed - and no longer remember why the Council, now left by its chairman was going to. And do not comprehend what will do next.