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October 25, 2011 Alexander Ryklin

Last Saturday, two protest events took place in the capital. At one time, but in different places. On Pushkinskaya Square, the opposition held the action under the slogan “Put the cross on the thieves' government!”, Closing supporters to spoil the ballots in the upcoming Duma elections. Nationalists who protest against an imbalance in the budget policy of the Ministry of Finance entered Bolotnaya. "Stop feeding the Caucasus!" It was drawn on banners, under which, in particular, on that day there were such noticeable Moscow characters as the popular blogger Alexei Navalny and the famous activist Parnassus (and in the past and “solidarity”) Vladimir Milov.

It is important to emphasize here that the organizers of the nationalist rally in Bolotnaya Square, of course, were not accidentally decided to hold it at the same time with the Democrats. (Evil languages ​​attribute this idea to Mr. Milov, who, as you know, differ, rare creative abilities.) It was important for nationalists to clearly demonstrate the public, how much more relevant that the country is offered by the country, Kasyanov, Ryzhkov and other opposition leaders. (One of the participants in the rally was, for example, Eduard Limonov.) Arms that on Pushkinskaya on a dank autumn day it is unlikely that more than one and a half - two thousand people (in fact, so happened), Milov’s accompaniment, apparently, intended to take at least five thousand people to the Swamp Square. And a couple of hundred came. A simple metaphor begs by itself - in Bolotnaya Square, the nationalists got into a puddle.

If someone is now waiting for me a dance on the Nazikovsky bones, he will be brutally disappointed. I think that the reason for such a fiasco is not at all in the failure of a brutal slogan “Stop feeding the Caucasus!”. It just seems to me that in a very significant part of the lumpenized population, he can find support precisely due to his obvious ambiguity and hypocrisy. Simple dense nationalists, direct heirs of the Black Socialists, nevertheless quickly realized that smart uncles (whom they later, of course) try to take them out of the gateway to the open spaces of a large Russian policy in such a tricky way. After all, they are discussing their position on the liberal Echo ... when was it? Moreover, almost 90 percent of the radio listeners vote for their new frontman Alexei Navalny, when he announces his slogan, which so organically fits into their agenda. Is this not a success? At the same time, nationalists perfectly understand: "Stop feeding the Caucasus!" - This is to take the eyes ...

In fact, today in Russia this call is undoubtedly identical to another slogan - “e ... at the Caucasus!” - which is very popular in a certain environment. In their environment. But I have serious doubts that the radio listeners who voted on Saturday on Echa clearly understand what position they actually supported. So, you must be more closely, citizens ... And more and more ... However, we must pay tribute and the abilities of Alexei Navalny to mobilize their supporters. The Radio of the Echo of Moscow also performed on the side of our democratic nationalist. The first plot in that news release, during which there was a vote in the position of Navalny, was a message about beating in the metro by five Caucasians of a simple Russian student who stood up for a girl (one must think, also simple and Russian) ...

But back to Bolotnaya Square. Why did no one come there, despite the obvious popularity of Alexei Navalny, the organizational genius of Vladimir Milov and the presence in the list of all known Naziki leaders and leaders from Belov to Potkin in the list of all the famous Naziki? I think it's not about slogans. Rather, not only in them ... the slogan "Stop feeding the Caucasus!" was not the only one at the event. There was a second one - "There is no batch of crooks and thieves!"

We have repeatedly said that both the Kremlin and the special services have long and tightly took the nationalist segment of our social spectrum to their hands. And they are manipulated as far as possible. It turns out, of course, not always. But today there is good reason to believe that this card in its election attempts will begin to play “United Russia”.

And suddenly a certain Aleksey Navalny comes - a fierce enemy of everything that exists behind the Kremlin wall (and he, of course, is a consistent and ardent opponent of the Putin regime), which at this point has already ruined a certain political weight - brazenly invades their territory and tries to moan that clearing that they themselves drew and sowed to remove the crop from it. Moreover, he makes an obvious attempt to reformat our original-pursuit nationalist movement. That is, to make it opposition to the acting authorities.

It would be naive to assume that the Kremlin would be indifferently watching how they drag their own agenda from under their nose and even turn it against them!

I think here we need to look for the reason for the failure of a rally of nationalists in Bolotnaya Square. I also dare to assume that Alexei Navalny is unlikely to allow a nationalist theme and become at the head of this movement. At least until then, until the commitment of nationalist views is combined in it with the rejection of the current government. 

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