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People of words and deeds
Grigory Alekseevich, without a doubt, a politician of an all -Russian scale. What is the biography and personal qualities, and this is a speech. The ability to find accurate words at the right time is the property of an extraordinary policy. This is also called instinct.
Meanwhile, the stand of the city parliament is hardly appropriate for the statesman. A former candidate for reformers, a former presidential candidate, a former premiere candidate, he has not participated in the main political battles for a long time, and the point here is not only that he lost.
This is a conscious choice. The game of self -destruction, which began in the zero years, when Yavlinsky handed over the post of Leader of Yabloko by the rustic Mitrokhin, and continues with varying success until now. Still, Grigory Alekseevich does not want to finally part with politics, and the rostrum in the St. Petersburg Sachs still connects him with voters. Thin thread.
Why this happened is a longtime question and therefore almost meaningless.
There is a point of view that Yavlinsky is too good for our country, where the population constantly chooses on the mountain of different politicians. It is believed that Grigory Alekseevich is too moody and therefore always lonely. In fact, if at the end of the happy damned 90s he would have concluded an alliance with competing liberals from the Gaidar party-Chubais, maybe there would have been no Putin? And would the leader of the St. Petersburg "Yablikov" would not have to brand power from the rostrum of the provincial parliament?
However, years are inclined to fatalism, and today you are already thinking about the past showdowns of democrats with democrats without former fierce. Just quietly sad. You are inconspicuous for others.
Apparently, there are people of words and people of business-you come to this conclusion by listening to Yavlinsky who are giving up on these historical days. People write magnificent programs and pronounce magnificent words, but as it comes to real politics, they are too selective in order to conclude political alliances. Even in the face of a real danger for himself and for the country. And the people of the case carry out unpopular reforms, as a result, necessary for the country, and leave the Kamikadze government, retaining influence and often even enriching. People of the word accuse people of the case of discrediting democracy with their consent. People of business reproach people with the word that they are inconsistent.
All of them are right in their own way.
The collective Yavlinsky is almost always right when he makes speeches. Collective Chubais is almost always right when he is doing things. On the contrary, when people of business, of course, of course, tells us about the Russian army, which is being revived in Chechnya, I want to plug the ears. And I want to close my eyes, once again looking at how people do not want to conclude any unions with anyone, based on reasons of high morality. As if they were offered a bride, not a temporary political ally.
Perhaps this is our main trouble, if we talk about the democratic choice of Russia in a broad sense. The eternal inflammation of intellectuals with intellectuals, people of word and people of business. These eternal showdowns that end with the victory of people of the word and deeds from the opposite camp. People who pronounce the first words and act without looking back at anything - neither on external decency, nor at the Russian Constitution, nor on international laws. The responsibility for the fact that they again captured Russia and threaten humanity to the Third World War, must jointly divide the liberals who do not know how to negotiate among themselves. For with them the highest demand, but what to take from Putin?
True, the words also mean something in Russia, especially in crisis times, which is why Grigory Yavlinsky’s performance causes such a wide response and sympathy. The silence of Anatoly Chubais is even more eloquent these days. The era of realists has sunk into the past, and the latest process of revival of the Russian army in Crimea can only be observed in silence. There is still nothing to do from the point of view of pragmatist.
Ilya Milstein - political commentator and publicist
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