Life without surprise

Why Russian society calmly perceives any, even the most terrible revelations about the essence of the Russian government

Strictly speaking, over the past week we learned amazing things - that the families of prosecutors in Russia are conducting joint business with the families of bloody killers, that high -ranking ranks in Russian investigative authorities are appointed bandits who are under the supervision of the Spanish investigative authorities, that law enforcement officers are interested in the most criminalized business, and grief to those who stand in their way, in general - that people who are required to catch their own Criminals, and criminals who are obliged to catch these people at some level are closed: both are of interest to a certain norm of profit, and it is much easier to agree on themselves. Investigation of the Corruption Fund about the affairs of the family of Chaika Prosecutor (and wider - the prosecutor’s community in general) and the publication of The New Times on the “Russian Mafia case” in Spain open new horizons of our knowledge about the structure of the Russian state - in the light of these horizons, solid people who listen to the President’s Epistity and reasoning about the legitimacy and law and the law, They look like the heroes of the old Italian series about the mafia, where bandits, officials, lawyers, journalists are only different tentacles of one giant octopus, and if it is possible to chop off one tentacle, others will immediately strangle you.

In the extensive line of reactions to these investigations - from indignation on his heroes to indignation at his creators: there was no only one emotional paint: surprise. People who are ready to agree with these publications in advance say: of course, we suspected that everything was arranged so, but not to the same extent! People initially related to such publications with suspicion are interested in: no, everything was clear, but who is behind these exposures? There was no such thing that someone wrote: Oh my God, it couldn’t be, is it really true? The investigations were confirmed - with documents, scans and extracts from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities - the fact that everyone already intuitively knows: the monster is the overlap, huge, stouser and barking, even with an octopus call it, even with Leviathan, with a toad on the pipe.

News Heroes: the head of the SK, the defendant of the case of the “Russian mafia” in Spain, Moscow, November 10, 2015

The son of the Prosecutor General Artem Chaika, accused by the experts of the FBK of raiding, a frame from the film "Chaika"

The Chairman of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkin, in the dissertation of which Dissernet experts found plagiarism, St. Petersburg, November 26, 2015

The situation in which all the sources of power - business, power, crime, propaganda - merged with each other to the extent of indifference, is as monstrous as it is obvious - at least for the political regime in which all the branches of the authorities have long fused into one large bitches (and we are all sitting on it). Another feature of this system is that this main feature is not customary to notice; The system, as it were, removes its essence from the field of view, creates a blind spot in its place, even in those moments when this unsightly essence becomes clearly visible, people do not want to notice it - and immediately switch to discussion of extraneous moments. Read about the seagull? Hmm, curious, and yet-who is behind the bulk? After all, this is what money cost, and someone merged this information, well, this is the old conflict of security forces, and Putin is well done, he keeps everyone in tone, and I have not been pleasing to these exposures for a long time, it is clear that they fulfill the order to overthrow the regime-and already on the third phrase we forget about the seagull, and the regime in its current form is constituted as something absolutely natural and superior. In a situation where it is impossible to influence the monstrous structure of the system, conspiracy theories, fortune -telling of the arrangement of leaders on the Mausoleum, attempts to guess by fluctuations of the carpet, which of the animals hiding under it - octues or leviapan? Even in the cinema, as it turned out recently, we are not ready to live with this truth: Andrei Zvyagintsev intelligibly shows how the joints of this predatory machine work, and the viewer in response begins to reason how the author douses his homeland in order to receive an Oscar, and how much the State Department paid for it.

The situation in which all the sources of power - business, power, crime, propaganda - merged with each other to the degree of indistinguishable, as monstrous as obvious

In order to go out the forehead with this multi -armed car, you need remarkable courage, there are few such people, and this is not a feature of Russia of the current moment - in the end, the Kattani Commissioner was also alone. It is more sad that all these previously predictable reactions are also part of the car, they are calculated and predictable - and the more we discuss how the director of the broadcast of the presidential message leads to the seagull of the camera with the word “corruption”, the more convenient the prosecutorial family continues to do business. The clarification of whose mill is poured by Navalny’s water is also part of the game: everything in this world is done by someone else's order, there is no truth on Earth or higher, twice two is equal to five, or maybe eight, that before the prosecutor’s business with her tsari-it was either, or it was namesakes, and in general, all the documents were fed in the CIA.

It’s interesting - after all, about the struggle of the octopus with Leviathan, it is also clear how it ends, at what point that trajectory rests along which we all roll at a greater speed. And having turned out with this with a bang of a collapsing trough, we will also discuss who is beneficial - Sechinsky or Volodinsky - and from what angle does the director take off the catastrophe?

Photo: Sergey Savostyanov/TASS, Chaika.navalny.com, Anna Isakova/Press Service of the State Duma of the Russian Federation/TASS