Weather for a year

The year 2018 will be bad.

However, I say this not because it is gifted from above for the gift of foresight or by nature incorrigible pessimist. Just not. I see the future fuzzy and therefore, I must peer into it with hope, or even indulge in the sweet dreams of both personal and social properties. Like Russia will be free, and I, having fooled, buying a lottery ticket, will gain financial independence - as a reward for work, for the divine.

Just the New Year, the time of vacations, and this column will probably last longer than usual, so it would hardly be reasonable to respond to the anger of the day. The day will pass with his anger and vulgarity, and the other will pass, and the fifth, and the text dedicated to some nonsense, like the cunning resignation of Mutko, will be, or something, hang on the site? This is a mess. Therefore, we must do predictions, listening to yourself and trying to tell the truth. Well, I say: the year will be bad.

Firstly, Putin will choose Putin to us (not without the help of millions of those who have come and forcibly driven to the urns), and this reason is enough to reflect on tomorrow with endless longing and boredom. To think about that for six more years at least the country will remain in the status of the besieged fortress, more and more enclosing from the rest of the world. The rest of the world, looking at the Russians, and especially the chief chosen by the Russians, will be more hopeless to evaluate us and him and more strictly punish us.

It is difficult to say what the meaningful Gref had in mind when he recently stated that after the introduction of new American sanctions, “The Cold War would seem to be children's fun”, but this was clearly not only blackmail. Despite the fact that new sanctions are already being introduced and their further distribution is almost inevitable. The bosom friend and associate of Putin gave a signal, but to whom and why - it is unclear. It’s even more difficult to comprehend that it can make us nostalgically remember the good old days of the Cold War, although certain guesses are creeping into the soul. Again, tightly related to the event that we and humanity have to survive in March 2018, and then make its consequences for many years.

Choose Vladimir Vladimirovich, yes. Therefore, secondly, the situation within the country inspires great alarm, the adaptation of trouble. It is clear that for thousands and thousands of Russian citizens the next term of Putin is an insult that is impossible to endure, and people will go to the protest on the call of Navalny or on their own. It is also clear that the authorities will try to suppress these demonstrations of non -radiation with experienced methods - using preventive provocations or direct hiding of riot police and the Russian Guard on disagreements. And this means that we should expect beatings, arrests, ships and sentences on samples, also well known, and here I want to file advice and leaders of the protest movement, and citizens going to the square: act with caution and protect themselves.

The other day, following Shuvalov and Solzhenitsyn, Putin defined the savings of the nation as the main goal of state policy, and in this case it is worth listening to the president. And also to the chief of the FSB Bortnikov, who announces other, cherished thoughts of the guarantor, about the fact that the 37th year was not essentially, but we can repeat. In short, it is very similar to the fact that twisting the nuts inside the country against the backdrop of the inevitable foreign policy failures is an almost resolved issue, and this cannot but take into account this, entering into an unequal battle with nonhumans. In the end, we all have one life, even Putin, and it would be better to live it longer and in the wild. This applies to Alexei Anatolyevich and his fans primarily.

The year will be bad, but there is good news. Moreover, objectively good, which I will not explain to the fact that by nature is alien to unreasonable pessimism. Still, the regime is gradually entering the final stage, which, of course, can last two or three more presidential terms, however, these figures are in question, and indeed Russia is such a country that the most unrealizable forecasts come true here. That is, you will not have time to indulge in absolute desperate, as in fabulous Andropov times, when both the dissident movement was defeated, and the Cold War was blazing with icy fire, and the cargo-200 from the Afghanistan entered the Afghanistan, but the April plenum passed, and perestroika’s searchlight was included in full power.

Who would have thought, right? By the way, then I did not believe that the cranes and the indestructible union has been living in recent years, and everyone who dreams of escaping from it would run away. And we will withdraw the troops from Kabul, and from Eastern Europe, and on New Year's Eve, the flag of the Soviet Empire is slowly melting in the post -Soviet December sky.

And today I can’t believe that one day this mosquito will end and the Motherland will stop scaring the neighbors and, disgracing, hesitate the whole world. I can’t believe it at all, but for the person of my generation this is perhaps an encouraging sign. I don’t know when, I don’t know how, but Putin's Russia will end as ingloriously as the state where we were born with him, with the KGB lieutenant colonel, and I only hope that this time it will do without geopolitical disasters, since there seems to be nowhere to crumble. And although the authorities are doing everything in order for Russia to hate Russia, and the peoples inhabiting it, as if preparing for a civil war, found out relations in cruel theological disputes with arson, the country should survive the one without which the Russian Federation is not there, and to survive, and change. This will be a great gift for both Russians and humanity. But the New Year does not bode well, and yet Happy New Year!