Rubing forehead

About ten years ago, one familiar political strategist was suddenly interested in my opinion on the problem of drug legalization. I asked why he needed it. "Yes, I have a deputy, he now thinks to declare his position on this topic. And make a name for himself." “Interesting,” I say. “And what is his position? Is he for or against?” - "Yes, he does not know yet, here we are interviewing people, we are guided by ..."

This episode is remembered every time I notice the unexpected activity of before a peaceful people's chosen one, who in front of my eyes turns into a tyrannosaurus who is ready to eat the stunted and half -stubbled sprouts of democracy and civil society in modern Russia.

And the fate of this tyrannosaurus is generally quite predictable.

Observers speak of two possible reasons for the transformation of a completely harmless, and once useful deputy of Elena Mizulina from the Yabllennik to the Orthodox fundamentalist with a homophobic slope. The first reason - "political prostitution" - was named in a newspaper article , which has sensational due to reaction from insulted unicorn. It argued that a group of recruits of the YP faction in the State Duma decided to silence the sin of their past belonging to the democrats and sharply shifted the steering wheel to the right, becoming the holy of the Pope himself. Other commentators point out the “series of magical changes in the sweet person” of the deputy Mizulina, who became especially noticeable, when it became known that her son lives in Western Europe and is working in a law firm, which is actively protecting the rights of the gay community.

For me, the countless demarcers of the deputy Mizulina, of which recently, the proposal was especially noticeable to consolidate the status of Orthodoxy as a state religion and a scandal overshadowed by a conference in Germany , indicate that her political career is coming to an end. Examples of the late Vasily Shandybin or, if you like, Andrei Isaev, who publicly promised to crush the hydra of liberalism and displace the opposition outside the political field, are indicative. Excessively radical deputies, even if he fighting on the side of Putin, he really does not need. For their antics are not only an attempt to earn cheap popularity among marginals, but also an occasion for unpleasant and unpredictable scandals with those political forces and public groups, with which Putin is not averse to agreeing and trying not to annoy them without much need.

And it would be okay, when such conflicts are in the general stream of confrontation, but the grief of the troubled man, if he (or she) does not have time to notice the change of the breeze blowing from the top of the power pyramid. Mizulin did not seem to notice this - or she no longer wants to notice.

In June, Elena Borisovna made a scandalous initiative of the concept on family policy. This concept made a lot of newspaper noise, but did not go into business. The authorities completely ignored her. Another would have calmed down, but having lost the idea of ​​the political realities, Ms. Mizulin put forward one Orthodox initiative after another - and finally received a black mark this month. Her statement about the need to ban in Russia surrogate motherhood received a public rebuke from a dozen high -ranking government officials and colleagues in the Duma, including the comrades in the faction. As allies of the deputy, only Orthodox activists and some representatives of the clergy were designated.

The statement on the constitutional consolidation of Orthodoxy as a state religion was made from the mouth of Mizulina at a meeting of the deputy group to protect traditional Christian values. However, it is unclear whether this initiative supported at least all members of even this, quite marginal group in the State Duma. In any case, they, judging by information messages, were accepted by any joint statement. It seems that they will not be accepted. Because now, on the eve of the Olympics, official propaganda is aimed at giving Russia the image of a civilized state. Hence all Putin's speeches about the equality and safety of gays in Russia. Mizulin statements are contrary to this line.

The company that Mizulin chose for itself last week to present Russian spirituality in Germany, also, to put it mildly, is unsalual. Those who are considered marginals in the vicinity of Leipzig gathered in the vicinity of Leipzig. These were not even figures of the conservative wing of the CDU/CSS. The political discharge of the German society - the economist Tilo Sarraitsin and journalist Eva Herman ( who was scandalous with a positive assessment of Hitler’s family policy) - were not, were not, and will not be deputies of the German parliament. The appearance of the Duma ladies of Mizulina and battaline there increased the status of this meeting, but for the deputies themselves it is a descent to the European political bottom - where clashes with anti -fascists are also possible, which Mizulina prefers to call LGBT activists. More experienced in such matters of the Russian Orthodox Church was limited to a parcel to this forum of third -stage church officials, not even bishops. So Mizulina was outside the serious political context and once again spoiled Putin with his image in Germany.

Of course, Putin will transfer it. And Mizulina, until the end of his deputy deadline, will shock the public with its statements and initiatives. But it seems to me that we are unlikely to see her as part of the next Duma. And the Russian Orthodox Church will remain in the status of a politically main Russian denomination, but legally this status will not be designed. Putin is still more convenient.