Reasonable severity

February ended in May, spring came to Russia late, and not only flowers bloomed, but also the Russians who took the fashion to protest. What ideas to curb these frivolous sentiments appeared in the heads of state people, followed by The New Times

Defenseless past

Sergey Mironov (you probably don’t remember who it is, and a person will participate in the presidential election soon, he is worried and wants to stand out at least something) suggested introducing a criminal punishment “for distorting history”. Since Sergei Mironov is not just a social activist who invents various prohibitions so that the newspapers mention him, and the leader of the whole party and the faction in the State Duma, his initiative will soon become a bill.

It is difficult to catch logic in Mironov’s speeches. The politician says: “May 9 events in Ukraine showed that today the enemies of Russia in Kyiv and beyond are actively supported by groups of provocateurs involved in the insulting memory of veterans and participants in the Second World War in Ukraine. This activity is frankly extremist in relation to Russians and our state. ” Events are in Kyiv, and the threat to Russians and our state. Some kind of strangeness is appealing to this. Mironov also notes the strangeness and clarifies: “This legislative initiative will apply not only to Russians, but also to foreign citizens who have committed the corresponding crime abroad.” And also adds not without energy: “Extremists, where they could not, should understand that they will not be a descent for attacks on Russia.”

Extremists are probably already trembling, and we can only immerse about our own history and our own ancestors too. In the face of state defenders, they turn out to be absolutely defenseless, they are dressed up - depending on the course of the party and the government - in the right uniforms and after death they force them to fight for things that they did not think about, fighting and dying on their real and terrible wars.

But, of course, the security forces must approve and lobby of the bill. The capture of foreign extremists who distorted and rewritten something there is Klondike. An endless stream of awards, titles and bonuses.

Saved childhood

The protest in Russia is getting younger. This bothers and scares power: generations fed by the TV go off the scenes, their place is occupied by obscure people who were brought up by a terrible Internet, where oppositionists, fighters with corruption, beauty bloggers and administrators of suicidal public, are being made. Who will they grow? What aspirations flush into fragile young souls?

You can, of course, buy a popular singer or oligarch as a video blogger. But this is short -sighted. Once on the territory, already trampled by liberals, a popular singer is losing popularity, and the omnipotent oligarch turns into a character of frankly comic. The way out is not with those who are already spoiled, but with those who are just starting to live. In Cherepovets, for example, a military-patriotic kindergarten was opened a couple of months ago, and the other day the Investigative Committee said that he was creating his own youth movement. From an early age, he will educate “young investigators”. The Young Investigator program, with the support of SK since last year, has been working in the Artek camp. Now they plan to use positive experience on the country's scale with that, of course, in order to increase the “moral and patriotic qualities of youth”, and at the same time infect it “interest in the work of investigators”.

To prepare children for reality, to teach them how to learn models of behavior in adulthood is, of course, good. In adulthood, for example, a participant in the action on March 26 in Moscow, Yuri Kulia, who pinched a policeman, sentenced to 8 months a colony-settlement ( more on page 7 ). Let the children get used to. But is there enough corners in the class of corners to arrange everyone who accidentally touched the young investigator?

Catch up and overtake

And most importantly, what do the dissatisfied protest for the sake of? What are they generally unhappy with? What kind of freedom does not get them? The task of catching up and overtaking America, over which Soviet leaders fought without success, Russian leaders have been successfully resolved. At least in some of their aspects.

This is what Konstantin Kostin, a political scientist who managed to work in the presidential administration, writes about this in the newspaper Izvestia. Kostin wonders: a lot or a lot of political parties in Russia? (Here we, skeptics, remembering the fresh initiatives of Sergei Mironov, will sigh - maybe too much). Kostin has his own answer: “In the United States, although the states call a country with a bicoparty system, in fact, at least five large federal parties and about 50 small ones, including regional ones. For some reason, when you are reporting this to people, they are surprised. Given the population, it turns out that the provision of Russians by parties at a thousand people is already higher than the Americans. ”

For the invention of the new political indicator “Professions per capita” Konstantin Kostin, of course, is worthy of some special award. And maybe the question: "But let me, how did he in this case serve in cleaning?" In the very, that is, the administration. Although, what questions are there. So he served. That's why he served.

Dates are nearing

And most importantly - why rebel, against what? Soon our life will miraculously change, and we will taste the rest after heavy labors. There is no doubt about this information: a very serious source. The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, in his Instagram described in detail (supplying the video for reliability) a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Alexander Tkachev. Tkachev was impressed by the successes of the Chechen vegetable growing, and Kadyrov, in order to dispel doubts, on Twitter, the news about the meeting announced this: “Chechnya is the future granary of Russia!”

It remains just to wait a bit.