XXI century. Kingdom of Arcanar

Sochi. "Valdai". The new speech of the president. New world order on the horizon. Although the modern history of Russia has been written, over the past 20 years, the country has committed not that a grandiose revolutionary turn, but at least a number of dizzying somersaults, shocked and its most and the whole world.

In the late 90s, when the era of B.N. Yeltsin and everyone wondered - where Russia will move and who will lead it along the roads of history, it happened. V.V. Putin. Then not everyone understood how serious it is and how for a long time. In truth, many thought that - temporarily and not very serious. Because serious people participated in the adult politics. Heavyweights: Chernomyrdin, Primakov, Stepashin, Luzhkov, Chubais, Berezovsky ... We are naive ... Today no one thinks so. Rather, few risk arguing with the fact that "Russia is Putin."

V.V. Putin. Then not everyone understood how serious it is and how it is long

What are these incomplete 20 years marked? .. So that during the words of the "era of Putin" it instantly pops up in memory? I am not a fatalist and not a mystic, but there is something mysterious in a series of some events that happened in these last 18 years ... The Kursk submarine. Beslan. "Nord-Ost". The overthrow of Yukos and the "non -Putin" oligarchy. The emergence of a group of successful businessmen, such as Sichin, Timchenko, Rotenbergs, Kovalchuk. An unprecedented strengthening of the role and influence of the FSB, FSO, TFR, prosecutor's office, Ministry of Internal Affairs. The rejection of Georgia of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, damage seriously and for a long time with Georgia. The death of the President of Poland Kachinsky in Russia. The rejection of Crimea from Ukraine, damage seriously and for a long time with Ukraine. The Civil War in Ukraine with zealous indifference to it Russia, damage seriously and for a long time between the peoples of Russia and Ukraine. The death of the Malaysian "Boeing" with the zealous indifference of Russia for this event. Damage of relations with the West is seriously and for a very long time, a sanctions war, a knockdown to the Russian economy and the financial system. The unification against Russia of the countries of Europe, Canada, the USA, Australia, Japan - all such different, with its conflicts of interests, and nevertheless united in the face of a new appearance and new policy of Russia ... The death of the head of the Total oil company, which wanted to be friends with Russia and support it.

I do not claim impartiality in choosing memorable dates and events, just personally this persons come to mind. Someone will come to mind something different, positive and joyful-I do not mind. The story is always multifaceted. But one thing shocks me when comprehending the above, and it is shocking ...

I love the fiction of the Strugatsky. Especially the story "It is difficult to be a god." It was written in 1964, and I re -read it about fifty times. And I will read the same number of times, no less. Because it is about my country and about its current history. Whoever reads will understand right away ... For example, one fragment from this great work. Who cares, he will find a great many of these fragments, and all of them will describe with frightening accuracy today in Russia. Only names and names will differ ...

"... Don Reba, Don Raba! Not tall, but not even, not fat and not very skinny, not too dense, but far from Lys. In movements is not harsh, but not slow, with a face that is not remembered for thousands of persons. Polit, gallant with ladies, an attentive interlocutor, not shine, no special, no specially. thoughts ...

Three years ago, he emerged from some moldy cellars of the palace office, a small, inconspicuous official, pleading, pale, even some kind of bluish. Then the then first minister was suddenly arrested and executed, died under the torture of somewhat foolish from horror, who did not understand anything to the dignitaries, and as if on their corpses, this tenacious, merciless genius of mediocrity grew on their corpses. He is nobody. He's from nowhere ...

Not a great and terrible person who gives all his life the idea of the struggle for the unification of the country in the name of autocracy. This is not a golden-in-law-time man who thinks only about gold and women who kills right and left for the sake of power and ruling to kill ...

Whatever he conceived, everything failed. He set each other two influential clan in the kingdom to weaken them and begin a wide attack on barony. But the birth became reconciled, the eternal union proclaimed under the ringing of Cups ...

He abolished the ministries in charge of education and well -being, established the Ministry of Crown’s security, removed the tribal aristocracy and few scientists from government posts, finally ruined the economy, wrote a treatise on the cattle essence of the farmer, and finally organized a “security guard” - “gray companies” a year ago. Hitler stood monopolies. Nobody stood behind Don Raboy, and it was obvious that the attack aircraft would eventually devour him like a fly. But he continued to twist and twist, pile up absurdity for absurdity, twisted, as if he tried to deceive himself ... Two years ago, any aristocratic bastard spoke contempt with contempt about the "insignificant boor of the sovereign", but now, no matter what aristocrat, everyone calls himself a relative of the Minister of Crown’s Crown’s guard ... "

Vladimir Bekish - an expert in the field of strategic security