Chess Olympiad

Politics is the art of exchanging. We are Bukovsky to you, you are our Corvan, and everyone is happy, including the liberated prisoners, and then another plot begins: the peaceful coexistence of two propaganda machines. The native power explains to the forced people, who will not even let go to the West in handcuffs, that the dissident is like Pinochet, it was not for nothing that the enemies agreed to exchange Corvalan for the entertainer hooligan. On the contrary, slanderers on enemy radio stations, breaking through the waist of muffles, convince the audience that the Soviet government is just a junta, worse than Pinochet. Much worse.

However, in general, a discharge policy triumphs. Compromise policy. A change of exchange, in which everything is sold anything other than communist ideals. Sometimes the most outlandish transactions happen when Soviet human rights defenders are exchanged for Soviet spies, and Jewish emigration from the USSR - for American grain. It is necessary to feed the remaining.

In other cases, when the agreements break down, the political market falls into decay and the world is covered by a full -fledged cold war. The exchange continues, but this is already an exchange of blows. The Russians are included in Afghanistan, the West is boycotting the Moscow Olympics, and the Warsaw Treaty countries-the Olympics in Los Angeles, and if the Soviet pilot knocks down a peaceful passenger liner, then the American president naturally calls his country the "Empire of Evil", and then the Cold War suddenly discovers the ability to boil. Now, to achieve discharge, much more effective measures are needed, and when perestroika is announced in the USSR, this liquid product is again suitable for exchange. For billions of loans and humanitarian assistance, which is still useful for the revival of free Russia. Until oil prices will not rise.

Regarding the liberation of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, various rumors went. It was assumed that Putin sensed the moral law in his chest and saw the starry sky above his head in connection with the Olympics in Sochi, and this version seems the main one. True, it was also said that the MBH could exchange a full house for spouses, abandoned in Europe in Soviet times and exposed relatively recently. It would be an exchange in the classic Andropov style, a dissident for scouts, but somehow it did not grow together or Frau Chancelline did not want to equate Khodorkovsky to repayed spies. As a result, the Olympic torch still burns over the heads of pardoned and freed according to amnesty.

Meanwhile, among the living goods laid out and sold on the eve of Sochi, for some reason, one quite famous 50 million people living next to Russia are not mentioned. Although the miracles of integration with Putin, connected with the exemplary beating of Euromaidan, Yanukovych showed just in those days and weeks when a human rights thaw occurred in December Moscow.

However, then they somehow forgot about Ukraine. Today, immediately after the legislative coup, who was made by Yanukovych according to the Kremlin patterns, the fate of this country and its people in the first lanes of the world press and in the title headings of television agencies. The new clashes in the Maidan provoked by the President threaten to develop into a real civil war, and if the troops, special services and the police are still subordinate to him, then thousands of Ukrainian citizens may be behind bars. And all this Pinocherta in the bad sense of the word is untied literally before our eyes, in these hours. And the worst scenario is blood, and if Yanukovych will cross it through it, then a large country is dusty like Afghanistan.

I think that in this case there are not so many people who want to participate in the Winter Olympic Games. It is clear that the slowly and tightly understanding "Professor" decided to gradually crush the opposition shortly after the well -known negotiations with Putin in the same Sochi. After we got rich for 15 billion dollars drawn from the Kremlin treasury. After I received a carte blanche from Moscow, if not an order: restore order, Viktor Fedorovich!

Another question is how Putin needs all this right now, on the eve of the Olympics. I mean the next step, which seems to be inevitably, Yanukovych should take after signing on Friday all those laws that the Verkhovna Rada, a furious printer of the local assembly provided his office. All his laws are violated, citizens reached the square with a number of up to half a million, and he seems to be free to replenish the global list of political zones at their expense. However, is it free?

Most likely, the President of Ukraine and his Moscow accomplice will prefer to act differently. In the slow rhythm that was set at the end of last year, when, after the brutal attacks of the "Berkut" on peaceful citizens, Yanukovych suddenly took care of the search for the perpetrators. Therefore, it is possible that he will now temporarily play back, and there is already some confirmations.

The police detains disagreed, but in small quantities. Vitaly Klitschko, who called on the country to the new elections, goes to the Mezhigorye, and the president accepts it. And when this meeting ends, Yanukovych immediately calls Arseniy Yatsenyuk, another opposition leader, inviting to negotiations. He wants to pull the time and, if possible, bring down the intensity of protest performances and hold out in this meshum state until the end of the Sochi games. And then ... Then the laws that the opposition are now trying to challenge in the Constitutional Court will begin to act.

Politics is the art of exchanging, but here is the case when the exchange has already occurred, the situation has changed dramatically and completely different figures on the board. So, before the need to cancel new legal norms, adopted by the way, even in the State Duma, the method of voting "by eye", Yanukovych and his Moscow sponsors should be set now. It's not too late. So far you can bargain with them. Until the era has broken off and it was time to exchange Ukrainian political zones for loans - according to the Belarusian or East German model, so memorable Vladimir Putin. There is still time to reason Yanukovych and inspire him that the best scenario for the current government in Kyiv is to sit quietly until 2015 and, exchanging power for a calm old age, peacefully transfer the post to the new president. To the one who, already now, meticulously evaluating political leaders, is chosen by the Maidan and the whole of Ukraine.