What awaits us?

What will happen? What to expect? Questions that many of us have been waking up and going to bed with over the last few weeks. And then there are pictures of a military coup in Thailand: the military is on the street, opposition leaders are detained and are in the barracks. The Thais are no strangers - they had a dozen such coups, we have the experience of the State Emergency Committee and the execution of the parliament of the ninety-third year. But someone is already saying: GKChP-2 has already happened , we just haven't noticed it yet. Such a coup of a new type: there are no tanks on the street, no mass arrests either. But on the other hand, the news ... Searches in the apartments of Navalny's associates, social networks are on the verge of closing , the last independent regional television company is going to be shut down , the West threatens with sanctions, what will happen to banks, accounts and plastic - fog , the economy is near zero, Russia is turning to the East , Visa is being replaced "Golden Crown" (not beer) , the words "fifth column" and "strangers among us" come into use: photographs of enemies are distributed on the streets and sent to the editorial office. At a conference with Western professors, a well-known Russian political scientist quite seriously declares: “There will be fascism in Russia,” and the first question your former colleagues from US universities ask you is: “Will you leave?” To answer them with Galich (“Leave, but I will stay / someone must, despising fatigue, keep our dead in peace”) - they will not understand, and you get off with a half-joke: “But what interesting journalism.” And it’s true: it’s terribly interesting where the situation will turn out, is there a chance for a good turn, and if not, how will it be? And is it possible to prepare for this “it will be” (you read so much about Russia in 1913 and Germany before 1933)? But outside the window - the sun, early summer, green and good. And you close Facebook and Twitter - you no longer have the strength from this news and frantically look for good news: Putin in St. Petersburg said that Russia would talk with the new government in Ukraine, he also spoke about investments, about construction in Siberia and a new Western businessmen to do business in Russia. All nothing? Everything will be fine, those who are indifferent to “our Crimean” or not ours, and who do not follow the civil war in the East of Ukraine, tell you. Putin said. Said. Meanwhile, at Yandex. Money” the Investigative Committee conducts a search… Putin in his usual manner says one thing, but does another? Or is it no longer with him, but with those who give the order to conduct searches? But - really, what interesting journalism. And you say to yourself: no, this play must be finished and watched to the end.