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Is there life under Putin?
Is there life under Putin? - asked The New Times. Considerations on this subject were often very brief - sent to a well -known address. Others tried to joke: they say, everything will die someday. Only the most persistent answered reasonably. Having deleted profanity, The New Times represents the received picture to the readers' court
Ivan Davydov, poet: "Where did the opposition come from?"
1. There is life under Putin, and we are a direct evidence. Although some died. But soon a new life will begin. Until the summer, we will continue to protest. And then ... Putin is a person of words, all the promises given during the campaign, he will fulfill. There will be no forest fires, since Kurginyan is inflated to the size of the airship and with yellow foam he will flood peat. There will be no corruption: it, for example, is renamed the feeding system. Boarders, pensioners, military, having received everything, will be massively rushing on Bentley Continental cars by domestic off -road, getting from an accident in an accident. The US State Department of anger is self -destroyed, and the opposition will die out behind it. The presidential proxies will not be allowed home- they will create from them "a completely great government." Surkov will modernize by armed with the members of the “ours” by Glonass Navigators, they will go to Seliger and will remain there for a long time, if not forever: they will not find the road home. Parties in the country will become one hundred forty million, and all, of course, pro -Kremlin, because where did the opposition come from. And everyone will read the newspaper "Give God!"
2. And if without a break and seriously ... Putin will stop kissing large endangered predators. He will find a children's dance "Ladushka". He will transfer the arrows somewhere. Maybe even will master Twitter. And in three years, we will choose another president. The main thing is not to give them a reason to kill us now and not to kill each other inadvertently.
Sergey Shargunov, writer: "You can’t put the paste in the tube back"
1. I believe that the zero ended and the tenths begin, that is, another time comes.
2. I do not believe in some serious tightening, because the paste in the tube cannot be put back. The protest movement will continue. But sad options cannot be ruled out: real prison deadlines for opposition, provoked riots.
4. Here you can recall the words of Pasternak addressed to Varlam Shalamov, to the author of Kolyma Stories, when he was already freed. He wrote that our rejection of the vile time does not yet make us people beautiful, noble. Therefore, there is always a space for internal work, in order to just be good people at any time, always, outside political contexts.
Mikhail Leontyev, TV presenter: "There would be a disaster without Putin"
1. Russia under Putin will look the same as now. Maybe even a little better. If Putin had not become president, she, Russia, would not have looked at all. There would be a full -fledged political disaster. It all depends on what course Putin will choose after he leads the country. I think he should very much change not only the current policy, but also the one that he carried out before leaving. That is, it should be a new Putin, then everything will look decent. By the end of next year, we should expect what is called the second wave of crisis. And by this moment, Russia should be ready. Now she is not ready.
2. I do not know where the protesters will be. The protesters, in fact,, as elsewhere in the "orange" projects, are a background, a picture. This is an insignificant minority, politically not sovereign in any way.
Lev Rubinstein, poet, publicist: "Artists became politicians, politicians - artists"
1. What will happen - I do not know. But I know that life under Putin-3 will not be like the Brezhnev era. For example, now I am not worried about myself and for the nearest circle.
3. I do not wait for special changes in my life. Because he did not allow and would not allow my life to be influenced by such insignificant factors like President Putin. He was nobody to me, and nobody is.
4. We can live. Joy should be sought in private communication, in reading, in art, in music - this will not go anywhere. The shifts in culture are now very interesting. They are largely related to the protest movement: photographs, videos, flash mobs. For culture and politics, now the time is unique: they have agreed at one point. Artists became politicians to the same extent in which politicians became artists. In the 1970s, art and real life were distant from each other-hence the departure of artists to the vanguard. So left the scoop. Now is the time for artists to be politically active.
Yuri Saprykin, chief editor of Afisha-Rabler: “Positive? In children and walks in nature "
1. Life is with anyone. The State Duma will still accept the Medvedev liberalization package. It will be the result of a compromise and will help mainly a systemic opposition, which is also not satisfied with its current position.
2. I do not exclude that after the elections a moratorium on protests can be introduced, but this will not stop. I think we will see a lot of compromising evidence for the opposition - Lifenews will bloom with lush color. According to the full program, Federal Law No. 83 will work (in everyday life - “Law on Budgetary Institutions”): medicine will become even more paid and education too. This will cause discontent. It seems to me that the emergence of a large number of associations, especially the network. They will solve various pressing problems - from bad laws to natural disasters. We saw this on the example of forest fires or shares of the "White Circle".
3. I have been engaged in the last few months that I helped my political colleagues find the right words and organize shares. It seems to me that this is an important thing. I will continue it. Moreover, sometimes it is my colleagues.
4. What to look for positive - everyone decides on their own. I recommend - in children and walking in nature. This is a trouble -free way.
Alexander Semenov, leader of the Rabfak group (the song “Our madhouse votes for Putin”): “Thanks to power, Russian rock has been revived”
1. There is life under Putin, but without Putin it would be better. True, I lived under the Soviet regime for 30 years. As Rosenbaum said, "I knew the times worse!" But in general, I think this period under Putin will be similar to Andropovsky: the decorative twisting of the nuts that could bring the devil knows where. If Andropov hadn't fallen down ...
2. I do not particularly count on the development of the opposition movement, because I am a historian by education and a little conservative. I do not believe that the network movement will be able to put forward a leader: in history, those who managed to unite as part of a certain vertical won.
3. In general, I would like to thank Putin a lot, because thanks to him, Russian rock was revived! In Russia, in Russia, they just do not know how to engage in art. Our group has been capturing public waves for 2.5 years and transfers them into poems and sounds. Power gives us every month reasons for new masterpieces.
4. We must develop ourselves - from this we become stronger, and when we become stronger, the external impact will not be scary to us, like a storm to a large ship.
Ksenia Sobchak, journalist, TV presenter: “Rain TV channel will be disconnected from the cable and it will become super popular”
1. I am not inclined to dramatize the situation. Putin is just one of the stories that is happening to us now. First of all, you need to think about yourself. If we become force, civil society, then the world will change for the better.
2. I think, at first they will hardly suppress the protest movement, but this is temporary. You just need to understand that the creation of civil society is a long process. I give him two or three years. The Rain TV channel will become super popular. He will be disconnected from the cable, it will remain only on the Internet. As at one time everyone listened to the Radio Freedom, so Rain will everyone will look at the computer. All interesting projects will be done on the Internet.
3. I designated my position: while I will find money and opportunities, I will engage in real journalism, invent projects, I will still declare my position, I will attract people.
4. Why get upset? You must be upset when you are in ignorance and something bad is happening for you. And we knew the election results in advance. And this is what the protest makes a noble business: even knowing the results in advance, we are fighting. Playing, not understanding what you get at the exit, is one thing. And to play, knowing that now you will temporarily lose, but you believe that the truth is on your side is completely different.
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Viktor Shenderovich, satirist: "There is life with Mugaba with Kim Jong Ir, only fig!"
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Boris Strugatsky, Fantast writer: "Liberal publications will be smaller"
1. Everything will be the same, but I admit that the nuts will twist a little.
2. Opposition, protesters - everyone will sit at home. Liberal publications will probably become less.
4. Yes, it will be like Brezhnev’s stagnation. But we will find positive in our ordinary life. Children, wife, some successes at work-after all, we do not need anything special.
Anton Nosik, media manager: “The future in Russia is unpredictable. Always"
1. It is impossible to look far. That I can see immediately after the elections: the authorities will no longer look like a sect, it will have to become part of society. It will grow up: there will be some temporary workers who will only think about the preservation of power levers. And there will be others for whom the country of free people is more interesting.
3. I do not even make myself to myself - the future in Russia is unpredictable. Always.
Mikhail Shats, TV presenter: "I will use the possibilities of a public person"
1. We have already tested this life. And yes, some part of our future, as before, will have to live under Vladimir Putin.
2. Be that as it may, the protest movement will not come to nothing. People will be actively united, there will be new movements, maybe even parties.
3. In any case, I see myself as it was the last few months: I will use my capabilities of a public person to convey to people the truth and desire to change something for the better.
Zakhar Prilepin, writer: "The main thing is that people are not used to this life again."
1. You will not believe, but life was even under Stalin! And now - Putin will be like Putin, power as power, Zhirinovsky as Zhirinovsky. About the same life that was yesterday. The main thing is that people are not used to her again and do not give up. It must be understood that the next time, when someone turns into the heads of showing dissatisfaction, it is better to walk peacefully than to stand peacefully. And if you get together peacefully, then not peacefully diverging. Power is a thing that must be asked for a long time, and even better - to be taken.
3. What I did, I will do what: in the authorities there are no complaints about the existence of people who are engaged in some strange occupation such as writing.
From the editorial office: the hero of the famous Soviet “carnival night” said the eternal: “Is there life on Mars, is there life on Mars - science is unknown.” Where is that night? The carnival, meanwhile, continues.
The material was prepared by Olga Beshley, Anna Ivanova