Ilya Milstein: Praise of melancholy

You won’t believe it, but everyone has the right to go to the polls. Literally everything, imagine, and then he still lists them , who have the right to choose and be chosen, and notes that someone he likes more, and someone less. And if you reflect on the list he had voiced, in which there is no Putin, but there is Zyuganov, Yavlinsky, Sobchak and he, Alexei Navalny himself, then we can even assume that the hero of the past week, the famous TV presenter and socialite , who declared his claims for the presidential post, he likes more. Well, than Zyuganov with Yavlinsky, not to mention Vladimir Vladimirovich.

This move is quite unexpected from the politician freed yesterday. This is a dexterous move. This move is correct.

Moreover, a month ago, Alexei Anatolyevich, having learned about the likely nomination of Ksenia Sobchak, tore the metal . That is, he did not choose expressions and called her views on politics and economics "cannibalized". Which did not mean that Navalny really thought so. It meant that anyone who tries to take his place, the only and unique leader of the non -playing opposition, considers Navalny considers the traitor. Regardless of whether this is allowed to run or not. It can also be assumed that Navalny’s rejection was caused by the situation in which one of the opposition will be allowed to compete with Putin, and he, not without reason, considers himself the only real opponent of the leader of the nation, will not let him participate in the race.

That's why Navalny reacted with such excessive fury even to rumors, launched at first to the Kremlin administration. It probably seemed to him that these are generally different stories: Putin against Zyuganov with Zhirinovsky and Yavlinsky, and Putin against the same figures plus Sobchak. However, last week, almost immediately after the famous appeal of Ksenia Anatolyevna to the Russian people, it turned out that her target audience was rather unpleasantly struck than delighted with the opening prospects. Hopes were reduced, longing and aversion to the elections as such increased. On the contrary, the attitude towards Navalny, who had still served the next term at that moment, only improved against the background of what was happening.

So he answers the question about the rival in Putin's cold-blooded, strongly, sovereign. Say, everything is in their own right, everyone is good, although some more to his heart, others are less. A sense of shame for the country where judges imitate justice, and the authorities are sophisticated in the Fints on the eve of the elections, trying to finally split the disagreements, increases constantly, and as long as Navalny nervously and jealously responded to the nomination of the ambitious lady, the authorities successfully solved the problem of the final moral impregnation of the fifth column. To which, in fact, was the plan associated with the nomination of Ksenia Sobchak - regardless of whether it is free or involuntarily participating in the representation.

In the desert, mirage does not have to choose. Where did you see, you are there and wandering

Navalny allowed himself to be involved in this alien game - due to inexperience and some unbridled feelings. Now, apparently, having guessed that his conflict with the TV presenter would observe the authorities with great and undisguised pleasure, he stopped playing the rules for imposed rules. It is possible that after a conversation with Ksenia Anatolyevna, who has already announced her readiness to rent her candidacy in favor of Navalny. Or just having learned about how the public reacted to her desire to fight “against all”, and evaluating, so to speak, Sobchak’s election program.

Of course, the country will not change from the fact that the split in the camp of the disagreements will not be aggravated yet, the mood will not improve, Putin’s elections (or who he will appoint Putin there) will not gain noticeable similarities with a normal popular will. A successfully zombie population will vote as it should, who would be there, considering the ratings, or included in the lists. Alexey Anatolyevich will remain a populist, albeit very talented, and his fresh performances will still cause awkwardness along with other, stronger and more exalted feelings. In general, in the desert in which the Russian political life is converted, many support Navalny, not because they agree with him in everything. And because in the desert mirages do not have to be chosen. Where I saw, you wandering there.

Nevertheless, this is good news - about the completion of the showdown not allowed for elections with the one that Uncle Volodya himself was nursed. The news is not that very encouraging, but indicating that the democrats in Russia are able to not only fiercely include each other to the shameful pillar and identify traitors and spoilers in their ranks, but also to rational behavior. To the speeches at the same time mocking and conciliatory, which was so lacking in the dashing nineties, which were crowned with Putin’s victory and turning the country into a concentration camp without barbed wire and with the borders open, and into the happy zero, and after.

Alexei Navalny, melancholy praising the right to go to the polls, sets a good example for other liberal politicians, and I want to believe that in this new, positive and constructive style, discussions will be further conducted on the nomination of the unified leader of the non -systemic opposition. Unless, of course, Alexei Anatolyevich does not change his mind and does not give free rein to his temperament, habitually cursing everyone who is not with him. As for the elections, they certainly should not go to them, if Navalny will not allow them to be almost inevitable. Here you should show intolerance worthy in other cases.

Ilya Milstein - journalist

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