Aspirations and resorts

The New Times followed the ideas that Russians visited the week and admired the places in which ideas lead

Accountable patriotism

We are a nation of ideological and spiritual people. While others are looking for where it is better, we are looking for what a national idea is. Even the president, at every opportunity, ask: well, what is it? Well, what? So on the ONF media forum, they again molested Vladimir Putin with the same question. If the wording is more correct, for example, “Where is the national idea?”, He would probably have answered clearly: “In Panama”. But they asked - in what, and in response they heard: “For Russia, for a Russian person, a sense of patriotism is very important, a sense of national identification is very important, that in some countries Europe is lost, unfortunately for them.”

But ideological - pragmatism is not a hindrance. Quite the contrary. What is the national idea - now we know for sure. And we want to know - how much is her, this national idea? In understandable figures, to fix the growth of patriotism, regularly report on successes and kindly humble lagging behind.

The Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov, for example, said that in the near future in the country the manifestations of patriotism will be established strict control: "An annual monitoring of the regions on civilian-patriotic and spiritual and moral education of children and youth will be carried out."

But this is not enough tortured Russian mind. Member of the Council of Council Eduard Isakov proposed to move from words to numbers: “It is relevant to create a rating of state and effectiveness of spiritual, moral, civilian-patriotic and sports education in our country” in the regions. In particular, because "some media give the stands to those who, citing freedom of the press, allows themselves to mock patriotic events, dates, values, and the names of the heroes." It also develops among adolescents drug addiction and the number of divorces is multiplied.

A great idea is a rating. The governors will speak with a smile: yes, they sank with salaries, the production fell a little, but patriotism in the region has grown by seven percent! And with pride to look at colleagues, the proper growth of patriotism did not provide.

All rights are protected

Senator Isakov is not so wrong: some journalists really visit strange ideas sometimes. So, created after the attack of so far unknown, but obviously patriotic citizens, on a bus with media officers and human rights activists in Ingushetia on March 9, an independent trade union of journalists made an initiative: to cancel the fresh law that significantly limits the possibilities of journalists in the election coverage. Now it is necessary to accredit to the sites in three days (but this, however, is a trifle), and most importantly, the newspaper or the magazine cannot send a recruit to the elections, which is working in the state for less than two months.

And everything is on the same ONF media forum, but on the first day of his work, even before Putin’s appearance to the media people, the first deputy head of the presidential administration Vyacheslav Volodin was asked: would he help to achieve the abolition of these restrictions?

Volodin was not at a loss and answered wisely: the law, of course, limits the possibilities, but protects the rights. Moreover, the rights of the journalists themselves. “If the publication, the media, is interested in the fact that his journalist is illuminated by the election campaign, they will take into account the nuances of the law and will not relate to journalists as temporary workers, but will be taken to the state. So it protects the rights of a journalist. ” And if the power suddenly replaces in Russia - why a person is well -meaning to desire, of course, cannot - we will have at least one consolation: at least Vyacheslav Volodin will be able to make a great career of a player in a thimble.

Red and bell

Ella Pamfilova does not want to beat the alarm, Moscow, April 6 , 2016

But it is not always easy to deal with ideas. Sometimes the place of the word is occupied by a gesture, and you have to guess what its secret meaning is. The legendary master of converting the numbers in the protocols from the sad to the necessary Vladimir Churov, as you know, left the CEC. His place was taken by Ella Pamfilova, who previously worked as an authorized person on human rights under the President of the Russian Federation. The new appointment was already called the victory of civil society, and even hopes for transformations into the CEC and the great transparency of the upcoming elections were associated with it.

Civil society won not in vain, the transformations began: at the first meeting of the updated CEC, Ella Pamfilova replaced the ship's market, which used to call Churov, a small bell.

Political experts have not yet developed a single opinion on this reform of the electoral system of the Russian Federation. Either the noise around the elections will be less, or they are not worth the attention that turned out to be the previous. But, they say, Vladimir Churov himself will go to the Duma from the LDPR. Although it seemed to have an idea to become an ambassador to a cozy country. Oh yes, more: if you look closely, you will realize that both the Big Rynda and the small bell are similar to thimbles.

Time to relax

And the ending is that all Russian ideas rest sooner or later. "Arctic resorts will become more accessible!" - joyfully reported the Russian Newspaper. And this news seems to be good: at a special forum, the leaders of the northern regions of the country, together with representatives of relevant departments and businessmen, agreed to create a single brand “Available Russian Arctic”, the development of routes, and even on benefits for foreigners. Tours promise to make accessible - "no more than 100 thousand rubles."

Our Arctic is beautiful, and the news sounds good, but against the background of all other news, it still makes us think: how exactly will tourists be delivered to Arctic resorts? Is it voluntarily? And how long will the developed tours be? Are there plans for tours without the right to correspondence?

Because we have the experience of coexistence with our power, and she has an idea or even the habit of organizing too long tours to the affordable resorts of the Arctic.

Inhabitants of Arctic resorts

544

Man was convicted in 2015 under "extremist articles"

31.4% -

an increase in the number of convicts for extremism compared to 2014

0.45% -

The number of acquittals
In Russian courts

Source: Open Russia (Openrussia.org)

Photo: Yuri Martyanov/Kommersant, Shutterstock.com