Ivan Kurill: "The elections are over, let's look into the future"

“The elections are over, let's now look into the future. There we have power outside any system of checks and counterweights, the possible MGB and other consolidation,” writes a historian, professor of the European University in St. Petersburg on his Facebook page.

“In general, we agree that there was no big reason to wait for more from the current elections - there could be hopes, and serious calculations and understanding of the device of the political system did not give a reason for optimism. The previous Duma and Vertical did everything possible so that the current State Academy of Sciences was what it was chosen yesterday. (Yes, they write about a large scale of the stuffing - this is just about the“ Political System ”).

What can be done in a reaction? There are several important things. Protection of the remaining citizens of freedoms: freedom of speech (this refers to the remaining independent media, the Internet and the education system), freedom of departure, freedom of associations; The latter can be distinguished in a separate task - horizontal ties of people and communities in the form of NGOs or network communities formally registered or existing without legal registration, as a network of professionals or volunteers - all this will be on the side of the new Duma, and this is important to protect - with the help of solidarity, publicity and mutual assistance.

On the political field, it is probably necessary to build and structure the opposition movement from scratch - not in the sense of driving an “apple”, dissolving Parnas and sending leaders to a pension, but in creating a “popular front” (sorrow, let the name be the “front of the citizens”: yes, we criticized the “fenced” names, but the concept of the “front” has not only has the concept of “front” Military, and purely political connotations, something like a "front of citizens against authoritarianism, arbitrariness and corruption", or better "front of citizens for democracy, equality, honesty and freedom."

“I don’t think that such an association will be given to register - and this is not necessary; what is necessary is the formulation of the alternative to the current regime in the most important areas that unite the left and right, apolitical and politicized. The opposition has enough experts - it is not necessary (only) the exposure of the corruption of the current, but also a clear positive alternative to the device (not reduced to the fact that“ not reduced to the fact that “we will steal They will not "and for good wishes).

In this front - the public movement rather than parties - the "apple", Parnassus, and individual politicians and public figures could participate - if they agree with understandable and transparent principles (which still need to be formulated).

How to do this - you have to think. (But for example, a presidential race with the participation of Yavlinsky or even Navalny in the current decorations is fed into this program; something else needs here). ”