Kirill Shulika: "Figure skating of Putin"

“In today's Epistle of Putin, the Federal Assembly will be, as in figure skating. There is an obligatory unloved program and a beautiful arbitrary,” writes a publicist and politician on Facebook .

"Mandatory - the domestic political theme, from which the author of the message is frankly tired, but it is necessary. An arbitrary - foreign policy, which is just interesting to the author.

There will be nothing fateful in the speech, otherwise it would not have been pushed urgently on the first free date. The format of Putin does not carry away, unlike a straight line and a press conference. They are already not as bright as in past years, not as memorable, show the fatigue of the chief participant, but he is at least pleased with the format, which allows him to speak with an arbitrary program, to show himself a guru and ayatollah.

In the message, we will hear the numbers, dry instructions to the parliament, accept and consider ... But the arbitrary program will already be on a wide audience, including a foreign one, of course, that the author likes it more. It is one thing to contact Matvienko and Volodin, and another thing is to Trump and Merkel.

Therefore, the main intrigue is the balance between mandatory and arbitrary. He will be an answer to the question about this period of Putin and about his place after the transit of power, if he takes place. That is, is the current president is ready to devote at least a little time to operational management or will he finally hit the geopolitics and search for the place of the deep people of Russia in the world? ”