There is no revision

The International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, in fact, ends the political season. The State Duma will go on vacation in mid-July, postponing its holidays for a week due to the need to ratify Russia's entry into the WTO, but it has long been in politics, economics, and nothing else determines anything else-except that the Muscovites will have to suffer in traffic jams in July. And so the country will freeze in dachas and resorts, soap operas and series will reign in the TV, replacing a current show and final programs. Unless, of course, any war happens, but for this we usually have a hot month of August, or, God forbid, the situation around Syria will not finally explode (more about Vladimir Putin’s preferences in foreign policy and about who he sends and what signals he sends-on page 12).
The current political season turned out to be very nervous: it began on September 24, when the Duumvirs exchanged cabinets, and then it rushed: scandalous elections to the State Duma, a series of protest rallies that were previously unprecedented according to the number of participants, the inauguration of the new-old president with a preliminary Mordoboy on Bolotnaya, the cleansing of Moscow by riot police, the abolition of the de facto 31st articles of the Constitution, arrests, arrests, arrests, arrests, arrests, arrests, arrests, arrests. Searches and endless Czechs with the formation of two governments - in the Kremlin and the White House. The main distinguishing feature of the season - the real policy finally left the rooms and halls of the meetings - went outside: in February and March, this fact, by the way, was forced to confirm the authorities, arranging its rallies on Poklonnaya Gora, in Luzhniki and Manezhnaya Square. And at the official sites, meanwhile, the endless theater of one actor is going on. The forum in the northern capital in this sense was quite in the style of the season: thousands of participants, dozens of round tables, an abyss of Mishura, glamor, Black Mercedes, a demonstration of money and very large money, the ceiling of the city, the road for residents of the Vasilievsky Island with the obligatory presentation of a passport. And of course, Solo Putin, whose performance on the forum can be completely reduced to one verb "I will not allow!" “A thirst for change is, of course, the engine of progress,” he said, “but it becomes counterproductive and even dangerous if it leads to the destruction of the civil world and the state itself.” Of course, the political system can be improved-here is the law on the simplified principle of registration of political parties (read the results on page 20), but there are values ​​and institutions, the guarantor of the constitution said (half of its articles has already de facto ceased to exist), which "are fundamental, state-forming and are not subject to any revision." In addition to yourself and the Russian Orthodox Church (the discussion of her current role, read on page 6) - who else did you mean? Ba! Exactly - Igor Ivanovich Sechin, he, too, as the latest events showed, is not subject to revision. About this in detail on page 28.