Lilia Shevtsova: "decided to concrete"

"You can ask as much as you like: why are they lifting the hatches? After all, it is stupid! Well, it’s stupid! It was possible to allow opposition candidates not only to the elections of the Moscow Legislative Assembly, but also to the elections of the St. Petersburg governor. Was a handful of oppositionists will crush the power? They would give it the appearance of vitality, and we would give rise to a faith in the possibility of evolution of autocracy. He spoke about the Russian thaw and would again be ready to accept Russia in his unpretentious arms .

“In St. Petersburg and Moscow, the authorities made a different choice - refused to imitate elections and playing democracy. She refused frankly and convincingly. These are not a local events. This is undoubtedly a transition to a new quality of government. It is no longer important to what extent conscious or forced.

Elections in Russia - with all falsifications and manipulations - were the only way to legite rule. We have no other: there is no monarchy or ideology. The authorities pretended to go to the polls, and the population pretended to be involved in them. Refusing to pretense, the authorities said: I no longer need elected legitimation; I no longer need a reputation; I don't care about your support; We will reassign ourselves.

The whole elected tinsel with electoral commissions, municipal filter, collection of signatures, electronic voting, etc., which was supposed to give the appointment of elections, loses its meaning. When the scenery falls, the reinforced concrete “vertical” remains, which is from now on is no longer embarrassed to manage order and violence. The need for decency disappeared. And this means the beginning of the New Age.

There is more logic in this self -deletion than emotions. Apparently, the Kremlin, having spread out the options, came to the conclusion (and not now!) That the risk of destabilization when admitting non -playing elements "inside" is much higher than the threat of political protests. In addition, the rejection of the foci of internal stress requires the skill and other control style, which power is no longer capable of. This is too big a headache! And if the opponents went through all the circles of hell and collected their signatures despite the humiliation, threats and unthinkable nasty things that the authorities provided for them, which means they are capable of something! Moreover, they can give an example of what is impossible!

At this stage, the vertical managers decided that they should keep the monolith of power at all costs: any crack in the system in which destructive processes are already underway can cause uncontrolled consequences. The internal space should be perfectly manual and controlled! Moreover, with the increase in the dissatisfaction of society.

In a word, the line prevailed to push the entire alien outside the ruling field. This will have to take into account the "system opposition", for which the possibility of maneuver has narrowed. The soil is also eliminated for a large layer of "adaptants", which existed by maintaining faith in the change "from above". All this means that the path of peaceful evolution of the system in Russia is blocked. At the same time, the power change of the system threatens the fall of the state, which has become the spine of this system.

And for the threat of dissatisfaction of society, power prepared well and ahead of time. It is worth a look at recent purchases (10 billion rubles) of special equipment for dispersing protests by Rosgardia and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

And the reaction of the West? Yes, do not care! The West is already ready for a conversation with Moscow and have long missed dialogue! In a word, the purity of the trajectory is evident. The fortress surrounded itself with a moat with Tornado and Storms around the perimeter and cleaned the external environment.
However, a chance is left to eager for activity: they can hang proposals on how to improve affairs in the fortresses on the sites of the legislative organs. "