Putin sent

The message of Vladimir Putin, who considers himself the President of Russia, the Federal Assembly, who considers himself the Russian parliament, as expected, has become a duty ritual action. An hour and a half Vladimir Putin stood between two huge panels - the Russian flag and the presidential standard - and pronounced words, which are a set of ordinary banalities, empty promises and solemn hopes.

Mr. Putin began his speech with the statement that a lot of the new century has been made in the first 12 years of the new century. It is worth recalling that its performance began at 12 hours on the 12th day of the 12th month of 2012. This has been said a lot in the last few days. It seems that the Kremlin political technologists attach great importance to numerology.

From praise, Putin went to threats from the outside. The aggravation of everything around the world should not leave Russia calm. Russia, according to Putin, "must multiply its geopolitical demand." Real patriotism and revival of morality should help her in this matter. In confirmation of his innocence, he referred to Leo Gumilyov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. And then, not tormented by doubts, he was chopping over the fact that over the past 15-20 years we have lost moral guidelines: getting rid of ideological stereotypes, we, it turns out, splashed out the child with water.

A significant part of Putin’s speech was dedicated to this splashing child - patriotism and historical values. He talked about the "deficiency of spiritual bonds", about the need to revive the Semenovsky and Preobrazhensky regiments and the entire historical continuity of millennial Russia. For lack of clear prospects, Mr. Putin has to focus on the foggy history of the past.

The audience unrestrainedly applauded. Especially strong in those places that they could not like: when Putin spoke about bank deposits and real estate officials abroad. Everyone sitting wanted to show that this is not about him - after all, he claps the most strongly! However, you can’t spend Putin on meakin; He even interrupted the applause when he began to speak on this topic: wait a minute, maybe you will not like what I say. All the same, everything was concerned and very loudly clapping.

The faces in the hall were depressingly stupid. Occasionally, the television camera grabbed a meaningful human face from this panoptic and then lingered on it unreasonably for a long time. Television men can be understood: it is necessary to show the audience, but so that the audience does not become completely sickening.

Putin devoted a lot of time to social issues. He simply drowned in social promises and forecasts. His performance in this part most resembled Ostap Bender in Vasyuk, when the great grandmaster promised to turn a provincial outback into a future capital of the chess world.

It was said very little interesting. It is worth noting, perhaps, a rather unusual promise to prevent the existence of closed national enclaves in Russia with its separate justice. If it's not about Chechnya, then what?

Putin spoke out to facilitate the obtaining of citizenship for our compatriots abroad and increased responsibility for illegal immigration.

Probably, a bone abandoned by society was a proposal to think about a return to a mixed majority-proportional election system to the State Duma and even, possibly, to the electoral blocks. At the same time, neither a word was said about honest elections or the requirements of the opposition. Only once, probably referring to the opposition, Mr. Putin irritably noted that those who receive money from abroad cannot be politicians in Russia. And so he is actually for political competition, which is good for the country; for democracy, but ours, Russian; And for everything good, but against everything bad.

What are the speeches of politicians - especially stealing in the presidential seats and chronically suffering from their own illegitimacy? Nothing is worth it. Today is one, tomorrow another. I took the election to the Federation Council - returned the elections. He canceled the electoral blocks - he introduced electoral blocks. The man is the master of his word, gave the word - took the word. The main thing is that the hall is tired of applauding tirelessly, and in the end everyone stood together in the performance of the Stalinist state anthem. Everyone applauded, and everyone got up. Even the "opposition" Ilya Ponomarev.

True, the anthem played without words - only music. And thank you for that.