Osrics

On June 2, the Civic Chamber of Russia summed up the final results of the Internet voting for members of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation from non-profit and public organizations. None of the candidates, in any way connected with the opposition, made it to the OP. But the former press secretary of the Nashi movement Kristina Potupchik passed.

There is such a character in Hamlet: Osric. Petty young rubbish with a crowned murderer. Appears just a couple of times. It is about him that the prince says a wonderful thing: “A pigali with a shell on top of her head ran.” The pygal is a pygal, but it is he, Osric, who invites Hamlet to proceed to the poisoned sword...

I suddenly remembered this thread of the classic plot when I saw Mrs. Potupchik in the new composition of the Public Chamber. This bright image made me wonder about the fate of other people from pro-Kremlin youth movements...

Very, I must say, an enviable fate! Well grown kids, don't get me wrong.

Early learned to finger the federal boobs, almost in their school years, they learned the tempting taste of freebies, whetted their appetites on free pagers and tours, started their careers in tents with Vasily Yakemenko, earned their names as petty Surkov punks on the hook - destroying Sorokin's books and trampling on opposition portraits, harassment of the British ambassador, petty criminality against liberal journalists, slander and slander ... - they are gradually becoming the state elite!

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Poorly educated, indifferent to reflections, but sensitive to trends, they will quickly populate new bossy corridors.

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The path from the tent to the Chamber took quite a bit of time: here they are already heads of foundations and deputies ... A little more - and they themselves will steer state estimates and direct ideology. And they got off the hook a long time ago: the same Potupchik, teaching the life of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, is perhaps the most powerful spectacle of recent months for those who have nerves ...

When all this bursts, they will not perish, but will re-profile and begin liberalization or, on the contrary, patriotization - as the card falls (loyalty to ideology has never been a nomenklatura virtue).

Poorly educated, but lively, indifferent to reflections, but sensitive to trends, they will quickly populate new bossy corridors. The taste for threshing with the tongue and the bins of the Motherland will not be lost to death. Those who are more shameless will become Rogozin or Zhirik, the less fortunate will get stuck on the floors below ...

But all of them will remain Putin's punks of the early 2000s - punks who grabbed God by the beard and whooped from a happy sense of impunity.

Osric, of course, will not be lost under Fortinbras.

I think he will become an important part of the transition period, an adviser to the government, an energetic adherent of the new Norwegian statehood. It will still make excellent polonium.