“Leaders of the new Russia” turned out to be babbles

For me, this became clear on March 11, the day after the rally on Novy Arbat. Many correct words were said by the people standing on the stage. Including the fact that one of the primary tasks of the protest movement is the fight for fair and incorruptible justice.

And that the first step on this path can be taken literally the next day, when the trial of entrepreneur Alexei Kozlov, whose former business partners are taking away his business by bribing judges, enters its final stage. Everyone come at 10.00 to the building of the Presnensky Court in Zoological Lane and thereby show that civil society is against not only the nature of the consideration of a specific criminal case in court, but also against our entire punitive and corrupt court.

These correct words were spoken by people who probably want to be considered the leaders of the new Russia, the leaders of a civil society that has confidently declared itself in recent months. But no, these are not leaders, these, alas, are imitators. The same imitators as the Medveputians, only with a different political modality.

Civil society (in number, by the way, only 250 people - 100 times less than the participants of the rally on Novy Arbat; but that's another story) gathered on March 11 at the Presnensky court - young and old, veterans of battles with riot police and recruits . Half of them, who were not allowed into the courthouse, bravely stood for several hours in the chilly wind, as if demonstrating the firmness of their position.

They never waited for those who called on them to come support Alexei Kozlov and his wife Olga Romanova (by the way, one of the most active members of the organizing committees of the previous “swamp” rallies): Ryzhkov, Kasparov, Parkhomenko, Gudkov, Udaltsov... Probably each of them had some other, very important matters. But there was no case that day more important than the case of Alexei Kozlov. They themselves spoke about this at the rally on March 10.

And so it turned out that the people who declare themselves loudest at rallies are not leaders, but ordinary (okay, extraordinary) talkers who care not about the real cause, not about the state of civil society, but only about selfish interest, personal ambitions.

Such figures may well succeed within the Putin system, which consists entirely of people like them. But society needs other leaders. There is a need for them, and therefore, I hope they will appear soon.