In the Kremlin

Moscow is ungrateful

July 17, 2012 Vladimir Nadein

Putin cannot stand Moscow. This is his problem. Moscow cannot stand Putin. This is also his problem.

We know what Moscow would look like if his will. We saw this on the day of his last inauguration. That's what his heart was happy. Wide avenues and ancient streets, many times sung areas and romantic crooked lanes. And around - nobody. Well, not a single living soul. Lepota.

He flows to the Kremlin and from the Kremlin flocks of dazzling "Meruses". Following him vilely, the fucked Toyota and Volkswagen blow him. What fanned? Through the thick, in no one in the world, no breaking glasses, no sound comes into the comfort of the salon. But the precipitate remains. Nasty sediment. Therefore, he is so unbearably pulling him into Holy Rus', to a simple uncomplicated person.

These conversations with the people under the gaze of friendly television cameras are a festival of the soul. Whoever brought the vigilant service, everyone is grateful in advance. I haven't given anything yet, but thank you all. A large mother, but without children, you never know anything. A hastily trimmed veteran, exhausting under the load of award metal on a dilapidated tunic. The shy businessman, at first as if deaf -mute. Well, and the local governor, drilling, depending on the genetic code, who is a goat, who is a ram.

The main advantage of these commands is stability. They will approve that it is said, they will ask for what is agreed. You can put the twisted Sakhalin against licked Alaska, that none of them will ever ask either the palace in Praskavevka or the cooperative “Lake”.

Moscow is disgusting with its unpredictability. No matter how you select your own, among them a stranger will always hide. Snake stings stick out from everywhere. From the white tape of that other young lady, because of the gates of the supposedly walking scribble, from the crowd of brothers in the struggle without rules. Everything is dangerous in Moscow. For kvass for a moment, slow down - and that problem.

It's funny, but Moscow has no problems with Putin. Moscow flourishes with this national leader in such a way as with any other would hardly flourish. Putin thinks that he built a vertical for himself. Let him think. The capital's bureaucracy, the most advanced and most advanced detachment of the Putin army, has its own special opinion on this score.

Contrary to the opinion of other critics, the vertical of power is not an insensitive pillar at all. This is a living tree of pleasure, pleasures and real dreams. In it, they are bewitched, swearing and falling, huge and, most importantly, badly counted money. Of course, the vertical does not create money, but it collects it in cash streams, tributaries, channels, channels. And all this rolls as if by gravity, but all to Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow.

They steal, of course, everywhere. The shores of streams and tributaries, even from the very riding, are densely protected by bureaucous people with an insatiable thirst for personal enrichment. But you remember how the poet wrote? "Her spills of her rivers, similar to the seas." That's the vertical so that the main flows reached Moscow and, passing through the border ring road, with affectionate, blessed waves rolled on a white -stone.

Putin's vertical made Moscow a world center of roofing, raids, kickbacks and cuts. There is no other city on the planet, where so many corruption transactions were made in regular everyday mode as in the Russian capital. A considerable part of them ends with soundless computer rustle, carrying the treasured figures from one foreign bank account to another. But this is the highest aerobatics, available to single Timchenks and deripasis. However, he, even if not immediately, indirectly, but also spilled with a gold rain into wide Moscow expanses.

Nevertheless, the most significant part of corruption transactions is carried out by ripe cash banknotes. Packs, backpacks, suitcases, trunk. Cash - perishable goods. Even placed in the freezer, they are hung up with a prison. Cash, at least ruble, and even dollar, need urgent disposal. Here the source is not only luxury, striking and therefore dangerous. There are many completely moderate, in no way reprehensible needs that are satisfied in Moscow due to abundant rent from bureaucratic powers.

There are quite specific facts when money from bribes goes to anonymous help to sick children. This is perhaps an exception when he pulls a hat to the thief. There are facts not so unambiguous. For dirty cash, they buy apartments to their beloved grandmothers and former lovers. It is clear that not the halls of the Ostozhenka, something away and simpler. The bribery “cash” pays with tutors and nannies, doctors, makeup artists, car mechanics, prostitutes, landscape artists, fashion designers, traffic cops, plumbers, yoga coaches. Thousands and thousands of quite respectable professionals, who were not involved in intricate theft and firmly confident that they eat their honest piece of bread with no less honest oil, owe their prosperity to the fact that the retired lieutenant colonel wrapped up the first chair of the country with an iron Chek boot and whispered a terrible oath: “Do not wait!”

The fulfillment of the oath is inextricably linked so that the power vertical day by day becomes more vertically. This inevitably entails the improvement of the hand of Moscow, which will be more impudent and agile will devastate the pockets of the gullible and simple -minded periphery. Here are the ugly grimaces of fate: cute provincials, obediently voting behind Putin, are doomed to poorly. The awesome Muscovites, who are pouring and whistling after their benefactor, are doomed to rich, flying away into a bright future and unlocking the country in the age of “Lada” and “Cherries”.

Documentary data on Putin’s popularity in Moscow are not known to anyone. For several years now, they have been attributed to the field of strict secrecy. Many calculations, especially belonging to specialists of mathematical statistics, show that Putin most likely took second place after Prokhorov.

Putin’s electoral results outside of large cities and, especially, outside both capitals were undoubtedly higher than 50 percent. It would be frivolous to call these numbers a “rating”. In real conditions, the hard suppression of any dissent, which many provincial satraps are openly proud, the voting figures reflect more likely the fear and indifference of people than their sincere support - especially in the case of sudden confrontations.

With the dubious legitimacy of all the power institutions of Russia, including the president himself, a special fate falls to the share of Moscow. The country, as it were, delegates to the main city the right to action on its own behalf. The vast majority of residents of countless towns and towns, who, for one reason or another, omitted their ballot for Putin, become only spectators - with one or another share of interest. Moreover, the country dutifully makes the decisions of the capital, even if they are not at the same place with something. This is exactly what happened in the Soviet Union in 1991. The Georgian “Rose Revolution” (2003), the Ukrainian “Orange Revolution (2004), the Kyrgyz“ Revolution of “Tulip” (2005), which was more rapidly swinging the “Arab Spring” even more in the Middle East - all this indicates a completely special role of capitals in the fall of the regimes. In any case, the conspirators, where they emerge and no matter what they were inspired, can, at least at first, count on the sympathy and support of the main city of the country.

Putin does not like Moscow, but he is even more afraid of it. This means that he will never allow himself to put her on a hungry ration. You can not build a vertical bypassing the omnipotent center. Moscow will continue to go on a gap from the country, increasing the righteous and unrighteous welfare. The metropolitan class living in accordance with European standards and thinking in European will grow even more rapidly. Putin ascended the vertical - she will destroy him.

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