Russian policy after: what else can we talk about here

Sorry for a long silence, friends. I just tried to honestly think about the question that was formulated in the heading.

And the matter is not only in new repressive laws - the word “can” has different meanings. Although, of course, new laws are crushed, and when the word weighs fifteen years in prison, you begin to value it in a different way. However, repressive laws did not appear yesterday (yes, each new one is tougher than the old ones, but it was so before), and we learned to somehow get out. It doesn’t matter, I'm not talking about that.

This is my "possible" - it is about something else. About “interesting”, about “stands”, about “it makes sense”. And we have serious problems with this.

I don’t like talking about the internal media cuisine, this should not be interested in the reader at all, the reader is interested in the result, not the process, but here, sorry, you can’t do without such a conversation.

What did "power" in recent years? We are not talking about news, not about the turnover - this is all important (and now it’s also scary), but for this there are other, more trained and skillful people. And here the authors in the dialogue with readers-good, are closed, like-minded people prevail, there is their own charm in this model-they tried to understand where the regime is still moving. They caught, as they say, “signals”. Carefully listened to the dull speeches of large bosses, trying to unravel their genuine meaning. They collected a model of the future from fragments, which the bosses are building. I do not want to flirt, but still I hope that at times it turned out exciting.

But all. This is no longer interesting. Just because there is nothing more to guess about. The regime reached the limit, a perfect point in self -discontinuation. All puzzles have developed, there is no need to argue, for which the quasi-religious cult of the Great Patriotic War, the consistent destruction of the political space was needed, for which four hundred relatively honest ways of leaving civil rights from the population were invented, for which the propaganda boil boiled, and so on, and so on, and so on ... for this. Exactly for this.

You can (even curious) catch some small details, to argue, for example, what Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov and Dmitry Sergeyevich Peskov, who arranged a public correspondence about the essence of patriotism, actually discuss . But this is all - momentary little things, we will not open any depths here.

Any discussions - and here we are not only talking about our closed area, or rather, about it, lastly, became meaningless. There is a feeling that everyone has decided on positions, and no one can be convinced of anything.

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