Leonid Volkov: "Vacuum of Power"

"So, over the past week within the framework of the state default (i.e., renouncing obligations), many times exceeding the scope of the 1998 default, Vladimir Putin threw millions of people: small and medium -sized businesses, and all employees of the small and medium -sized businesses, announcing a" non -working month "without any compensation; self -employed and individual entrepreneurs left without existence," writes the chapter of Alexei Navalny on his Facebook page.

"Hundreds of thousands of people: doctors and medical personnel sent to the advanced struggle against coronavirus without the minimum necessary protective equipment, while these funds are exported abroad as part of the PR engines or to help out some dollars.

Tens of thousands of people: Russian citizens abroad who wanted to return to Russia collided with the abolition of flights, bought tickets for special “export” flights for a lot of money, which were canceled today.

Vladimir Putin did not throw only a few hundred people, oligarchs, the top of officials and security forces: they will receive any money, and depreciated assets, and new powers and corruption opportunities.

The amazing and inglorious end of the twenty-year-old unwritten pact between Putin and those citizens who supported him: "You refuse civil freedoms and let me steal, I make you well-fed and provide some stability." It was on this pact that Putin announced default this week. Exactly in accordance with the winged phrase about those who agree to exchange sausage for freedom.

But this default creates in Russia, of course, a new political reality. Vacuum of power. Since Putin left the contract with the majority on which he relied all these 20 years, it - realizing this (and this will not take much time) - will look for a new partner. "