Alexey Melnikov: "Failed State"

“Having enormous material capabilities to prepare in advance, for two decades, for forest fires in Siberia, to create an effective system for their elimination, the Russian authorities and Putin personally did not do this. Great power means great responsibility. Long power multiplies responsibility by twenty years,” writes the publicist in LiveJournal .

“Now that it turns out that giant forest fires can contribute to global warming, the inevitable conclusion follows that they are not only an internal Russian problem.

But if you, the Russian authorities, have a huge territory, are unable to manage it properly, and are causing damage to the world, then what to do about it now? If this continues, this question will be raised sooner or later. There will be reasons. This is a question for the entire Russian society. We allowed the establishment of such orders in Russia in which our country poses a threat to the world. In this case, an environmental threat.

Protests against the refusal to register candidates for elections in Moscow and St. Petersburg are mainly motivated by the desire of citizens to change authorities who are unable to act in the interests of the country's citizens. Failure after failure. In all directions. Both in big and small ways. The shameful story of eliminating floods and fires only confirms the need for a speedy change of government and the adoption of a program of change for the entire country. And in the interests of citizens.

Neither the arrests in Moscow, nor the fuss with searches by the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, nor the refusal to allow all independent candidates to participate in the elections, will in any way solve the problem, will not cancel the need to replace the rotten authorities.”