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Fire by headquarters
Why is Putin pressing officials
Fire by headquarters. “Gudkov’s incident” parliamentary inviolability was sent to the urn. Sovereign people are about to ban the property and receive education abroad. The President personally gives out reprimands to the ministers. Other ministers and governors, having spent in their seats by Russian standards without a year, are already explained with investigators. Parliamentary gleaders lay each other "by corruption." Meanwhile, Putin preferred to perform personnel changes without a pump and a television performance. Now, a noticeable part of the political elite is subjected to public ostracism - consciously and deliberately. The New Times tried to understand why Putin 
Three political intrigues of the outgoing September promise to significantly change not only the usual interface, but also the back-office of the regime of Vladimir Putin.
Putin vs EP
Intrigue the first: on August 1, four Duma factions introduced a bill according to which persons who replace the government posts of the Russian Federation (that is, deputy prime ministers and ministers), deputies of the chambers of the Federal Assembly, state and municipal civil servants, as well as all employees of law enforcement and law enforcement agencies not to buy securities not in Russia, open cash accounts and own the owners property abroad. At first glance, for a country whose deputies, officials and judges for the weekend habitually fly away to Barcelona, Geneva, London and Rome, this is a revolution. Not at all. All of them have already experienced, and without swaying, the campaign of income declarations. However, those who check the welfare and life of the emergency servants of the sovereign, that is, people in uniform unrest over all the people's indicated persons now.
The second intrigue is associated with the Duma vote on September 14, as the results of which the deputy from Fair Russia Gennady Gudkov lost his mandate. The Commission of the State Duma on the control of declarations of deputies is not found to be held accountable for unresolved entrepreneurial activities of none of the uninterous Russia deputies. However, those who follow the duty of the servants of the people, that is, all the same people in uniform and without, will always be able to interpret the thin, almost imperceptible line between owning business and management of it. Especially if formally runs the company a close relative of the deputy.
Putin VS White House
The third intrigue was indicated by the reprimand, which President Vladimir Putin (“upon the proposal of the Prime Minister”-this was reported by the official media about this) on September 19, personally issued three members of the government. (Read more about the scandal around the 2013 budget-on page 28.) his former tandem ally, and now Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, by rumors, had the imprudence to argue on this occasion with the head of state, standing up for one of the guilty-regional development Minister Oleg Govorun. “Oleg Markovich is distant to the salaries of state employees,” says a high -ranking employee of the Ministry of Regional Development familiar with the situation. “Medvedev was outraged that Siluanov, who was primarily responsible for the budget, turned out to be no longer punished.” But the head of the Ministry of Finance, the official states, is Putin’s personal appointment, planted from his submission to the main chair of Ilyinka before Medvedev headed the office. According to the interlocutor of The New Times, Putin, therefore, pronounced the reprimands himself, without waiting for the prime minister, because he wanted to remind Dmitry Anatolyevich about this. The last time, according to officials, such a harsh criticism fell on the White House in the spring of 2003, when Putin once again accused the then Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov of the inability to formulate the ambitious plans of the country's development.
At the same time, at least two more large officials feel in themselves, Putin, disgrace. Previously, this happened only with the "overlooking" dignitaries, from whom the Kremlin wanted to get rid of. But the head of the Ministry of Agriculture Nikolai Fedorov was appointed to his post only in May, and Georgy Poltavchenko has been working as the governor of St. Petersburg for only a year. Nevertheless, the activities of both two months have been in the focus of pure attention of law enforcement agencies.
A new political discourse is formed before our eyes, sources do not exclude. From the support of the homogeneous political community, personified by the United Russia party, Putin goes to a different, more dynamic power model, they believe. Some of the old party and political elite are subjected to public ostracism. The electoral, but loud and resonant rotation of the elite can become an additional electoral resource, even a source of additional legitimacy of Putin in the eyes of his “nuclear” electorate in case of an unexpected “failure” of hydrocarbon prices. On the one hand - “share and rule”, on the other, what kind of “good king”, if he periodically does not smash the “evil boyars”. The principles of Niccolo Machiavelli are universal and eternal. "
On the one hand - “share and rule”, on the other, what kind of “good king”, if he periodically does not smash the “evil boyars”. The principles of Nikolo Machiavelli are universal and eternal
“United Russia, of course, will not go anywhere from the political scene, the interlocutors of The New Times believe. But the restart of the All -Russian Popular Front, which is planned by the president, will create first in regional parliaments, and then in the State Duma, a new party landscape in return for the last decade. Moreover, they recognize, in conditions T tightness of property control, the influence of special services on bureaucracy and business will expand dramatically.
"Kings" vs "boyars"
There is nothing new under the sun. In the early 1980s, the many-year-old dictator of Indonesia also conducted a soft but large-scale rotation of his allegedly dug in the power and business of the left-handed rebellion of the left rebellion on September 30, 1965, giving “green light” to “civilian” politicians and entrepreneurs. The second wave of public rotation overtook the Indonesian elite under General Susilo Bambang Yudoyono in the second half of the zero. The nation in both cases was delighted. Yudono won his first elections in 2004 in the most acute political battle with the charismatic competitor Megavati Sukarnopyuri. In the second, in 2009, his excellency was already unconditionally. Today, only Allah will be able to compete in Muslim Indonesia with Yudonoi with popularity.
At the same time, the equally cruel public purification of the over -the -wing officials was practiced by the Megapopular President of Brazil Lula da Silva. In addition, the Brazilian leader managed to advance his creature - a little -known dilm Russef, which was not well known until then, to advance the head of state. Finally, the Turkish Duumvirs, the current Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the current president (aka former head of government) Abdullah Gul, became famous for resonant anti -corruption cleaning. They invented a tandem several years earlier than Putin and Medvedev.
So far, public strikes affect Russian parliamentary vitiy and administrators of the second echelon, but not the main pillars of the regime - leaders of the state and winding business business, as well as the security forces affiliated with them. As in the "Balaga" Alexander Blok, cardboard characters act on the political stage of Russia. If they die, then a pond. Our small, sprayed not with blood, but with cranberry juice, the year of the monaric anger will not last long. And obviously, it will take place in a vegetarian style: without executions and many years of prison. And his main goal is to show that there are no untouchables for the king. In the conditions when a deaf murmur of the elites is already heard, this will also become a method of strangling the slightest, even seeming illness in the bud. The following acts of the performance will not be long in coming.