There is no place stranger here

Nikita Belykh's sentence is a warning to those who have gone beyond the red flags of the corridors of the authorities today

Nikita white photos: ntv.ru

"Why are you so fat?" - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin just agreed on the post of governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh.

It was December 2008, the first seven months of Medvedev’s presidency, talk about the thaw and about the fact that "freedom is better than not free."

White, active participant in the opposition rallies of 2006-2007 and the fight against the Kremlin during the parliamentary elections as the leader of the Union of Right Forces, by the fall of 2008 he had already passed the party-not only handed over to other hands, but also agreed to its unification with the Kremlin quariocaria, after which the ATP completely rested in Bose . Actually, governorship in the poorest region of Russia, where forests and convicts looked like a fee for the closure of a liberal project.

The tour of the main offices of the new regional official is a compulsory bureaucratic action. Belykh first went to Medvedev-firstly, he was president, and secondly, the future head of the Kirov region was a creature, like a number of other governors, namely the successor. Which, as it is now understandable, was very unsafe: practically none of the governors proposed by the younger Duumvir in its place after Putin returned to the Kremlin.

In the Premier Reception of White, he waited a couple of hours-this is considered a child. They invited, entered, here Putin and fenced him with his "what are you so fat."

How should a well -known politician/can react, yesterday the head of the party, who was not afraid to go under riot police on the streets, to the obvious rudeness from the hiding boss? Putin sat, lounging in an armchair, without a jacket, without a tie, a white shirt was unfastened, he watched the whites at all at all. And the further conversation, almost on the hairdryer, not only did not promise anything good for the future - he really frightened: the whites ( he insists that his last name was not inclined - NT) was literally shaking, which the author was a witness.

What could he do? Silently turn around, go and leave away from Moscow, to Kirov? In the end, not Stalin's times, they would not have shot. On some scales - own dignity, on others - the area in which a bunch of defense sections, non -payments, no resources, without pouring from the center by orders of the very government, at the head of which Putin was then stood, in no way. Swallow? Well, yes, swallowed.

How else? I have already handed over the party, Apeshechka has already promised that Kirov for one period, and then, possibly, back to Moscow, to the Ministry of Regional Development. Alternatives? Return to Perm, where the governor was deputy or continue to engage in business - with all the risks that arise.

I guess that such dilemmas both then and now occupy many of those who unexpectedly turned out to be not included in the list of reassignment to the new government or presidential administration, etc. But there is no doubt that almost none of the former deputies of ministers, ministers and deputy prime ministers will not go to free bread-they will cling to their hands and feet to stay if not in the power, then in the pronounced offices, and at the stand will be quietly facing those who do not hold them without high offices for the right boys, and who is possible for the hairdryer and with the hair dryer and Mother - allow them to be restrained. I remember that Anatoly Chubais also said that he dreams of leaving power, becoming the director of a gas station, but did not leave. As Putin speaks with him, it is not known, but repenting of the mistakes of the liberals , who in the early 1990s did not understand the special path of Russia-has already begun.

For a person who is far from the authorities, the question of how to respond to the rudeness of the boss is not worth it: if the slap is too much, then the sharpness, the requirement of apologies, and if they do not follow, is the impossibility of further interaction. The choice seems obvious.

Someone will object: "Come on, these are only words, why to spoil life because of them?"

People in uniform, those who represent the Chekist corporation, who are in power in Russia today, not only do not respect those who are kneeling - believe that they need to be finished off: the surrendered anger will dream about revenge, which means that the definition is dangerous

Firstly, words can be quite material, have weight, meaning and consequences.

Secondly, the attitude of the first persons is the most important resource that makes up the bureaucratic weight of the official or the oligarch, according to which other officials and, fundamentally, the security forces determine the real position of the name Revek in the elite hierarchy. Alexey Kudrin lost the Deputy Prime Minister’s office 6 years ago, but the marking “Friend of Putin” serves him as a protection from those who, otherwise, would have trampled him with his feet long ago.

Thirdly, people in uniforms, those who represent the Chekist corporation, who are in power in Russia today, do not just respect those who kneel-believe that they need to be finished off: the surrendered to hide anger, will dream about revenge, which means that by definition it is dangerous and must be eliminated if possible.

Nikita Belykh, as, by the way, is Alexei Ulyukaev (they both received 8 years of strict mode plus multimillion -dollar fines: 48 million - white, 130 million - Ulyukaev) - they did nothing that others would not do in their place. During the search, the whites found neither values, nor paintings, nor collections of watches, nor mansions - as they found other resonant matters from the defendants (including governors). In its area there were neither oil, no gas, no fish, nor ports (unlike the Sakhalin Governor of Khoroshavin, who received 13 years and 500 million a fine, or the former head of the Komi Gaiser, who has been waiting for the investigation in Lefortovo for 2.5 years), the kings of the Russian state and air -affirmative business that could order the province of the provincial in the province of the province in his back. Lefortovo. If there were interests, then the small Kirov FSBSHNI, whose whites, as the media wrote , selected the opportunity to share forest plots.

Why did the whites treat so cruelly, having arranged a mask show with a provocation of a bribe in the restaurant of the Moscow Lotta Plaza and leaving no chance, giving 8 years a strict prison?

If in one word - because someone else's.

Belykh tried to integrate: “We, the people of the system, will always be partially forced to go against our conscience,” - so he described himself in one of the interviews

The Perm Liberal Governor Chirkunov, who allowed cultural experiments in his province, who entered into dissonance with the ideology of "Okone" and the primacy of "Orthodoxy, autocracy and shoulder straps", were also not forgiven for these liberties, but they did without harsh and prison cells, they allowed them to be released and even let go of Paris. Because his own, a graduate of the Higher School of the KGB and an employee of Lubyanka.

The white ones did not have such insurance, and the “sins” were-and an attempt to make an incubator from the Kirov region for liberal managers like Maria Gaidar and Alexei Navalny, and the invitation of reformers like Sergei Aleksashenko and Evgeny Yasin, and patronage from system liberals, which are actually not protection, but rather the basis for the prosecution.

Belykh tried to integrate: “We, the people of the system, will always be partially forced to go against our conscience,” - so he described himself in an interview , after the sentence and two years in Lefortovo. And, it seemed, he succeeded - he thought so. Answering NT from the pre -trial detention center shortly after the arrest, to the question: “Provided media write about the arrest of“ one of the opposition leaders ”. Can you comment on this? ”, He snapped:“ I am not the leader of the opposition, I am a government official elected by the governor of the Kirov region. ” But the “person of the system” - the system was not needed. In the end, the governor's chair even in a poor region is a currency that can always be exchanged for something. White as he was, and remained a stranger. And what is allowed by his own, strangers-no. Then wolves entered into business.