Overcoming Opala. Can Medvedev become Putin's successor again

Dmitry Medvedev could now be called the most media-active member of the highest Russian leadership, but, firstly, there is no evidence of his belonging to the current Higher Putin elite, and secondly-he is very striking that Medvedev’s media activity produces exclusively on his own, not distinguished in this sense from any blogger. All Medvedev now is a telegram channel, a virtual person. Nobody knows what Medvedev is busy (most likely nothing), no one knows where he is (most likely nowhere), but every morning a new brutal statement of the deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation appears in the telegram. On Tuesday, for example, he promised Vladimir Zelensky that the Nazis would “hang him“ on Gillyak ”for a conspiracy with the Moskalya, on Monday, criticized Ukraine, which“ unceremoniously sits in its feed-fed Lend-Lease right on the neck of European sponsors. ” Last week, he ridiculed the German chancellor Sholts, who wrote a “mediocre article” because “Biden Biden looked at the night”, and also remembered the German parliament his former name. Once Medvedev was a successor to Putin, but now it was as if Zhirinovsky took the place, although the Russian government in the spring of 2022 itself is a collective Zhirinovsky, and there was nothing to joke about-in Medvedev’s career there was already a period when his rhetoric was surprised; In Russia, the 2000s about freedom were more often talked at “unauthorized rallies” (and the phrase itself is from there, from those times; already forgotten, by the way - there are no rallies at all), and there was a sensation when the young president, contrasting freedom of non -free, is better , it turns out that freedom is better. Now the sensation is repeated in the form of a farce. The former modernizer again surprises with rhetoric, but another - more radical and obscurantist than on average in the Kremlin ward. “On the streets of well -groomed European cities, smelly bonfires from tires will burn for the glory of the heroes of the Maidan and a great reins of € in the other hand.” In case someone thought that he was simply taken away from his phone and mocking the audience on his behalf, Medvedev posted a special video in which he writes a marker on the board congratulations on his first time (a standard for a video with hostages-to make it clear how much it was filmed) and draws the letter Z, mysteriously grinning.

Before the war, it was fashionable to joke over Putin’s foreign policy and economic failures, comparing him with the “Iron Dimon”, which “took Tskhinval and founded Skoltech,” and the dollar was 30 with him, and in general there was an order. The joke, as often happens, was realized in the most literal way - now there is no one more ironly in the Russian authorities of Dimon. There was, perhaps, Kadyrov, but he was distracted by the Holy month of Ramadan, and Medvedev is always in the post, now the most radical and most implacable. Pushed two years ago to disgrace and, as it seemed, broken by it, he now takes revenge in a special operational turmoil, conquering what was deprived of these two years. His new life began at the “same” meeting of the Security Council on the eve of the war-while the patented hawks were blushed and stammered, trying to evade circular bail, the disgraced Medvedev made a question of a level that he himself once designated in granite-he remembered his own experience in the defeat of Georgia, switched to Latin, referred to the most complex subtleties of legal science and looked in all sense first student.

His political biography is tragic. Even if there were actually no hidden ambitions, and even if the official version of the castling of 2011 is true, that they and Putin agreed from the very beginning - even if there are no secrets in this plot, its public component itself is impressive. A person who repeatedly with a direct text declared co -authorities lost to other favorites, lost his small, but still the team, underwent many humiliations , including those who, in the previous round, could look like his situational allies. The premiere position turned out to be a springboard to nowhere - years, Medvedev became smaller, even less, he was almost left, and finally he was put on a shelf in the “fool’s house” on the Vozdvizhenka, he disappeared completely, and what was with him - hinted that he drank, or maybe he quietly went crazy, beat her fists in a door locked outside, or crossed the old photographs, I and me and me with Obama, I Jobs, I'm with Schwarzenegger, and cried. No one knows. Logically, the former favorite, sent to disgracely, should always want to return everything as it was, re -prove his loyalty, but no one gave him a chance to attempt to evidence. In one of the pre -war months, he was released to open a monument that was preoccupied from the point of view of official history, he made a strong speech atypical for Russian officials at the ceremony, as it turned out later, which anticipated the “decommunizer” pathos of Vladimir Putin - but no one noticed the speech. This is not even an iron mask, this is an invisible man. Doctor, why do everyone ignore me? - Next!

The war mixed the maps to everyone, but also opened opportunities for those who were deprived of them. The desire to prove their loyalty has not gone anywhere, and now, unlike pre -war vegetation, Medvedev fulfills and exceeds the plan in fidelity. Those favorites who were not comparaimably more successful than him two or three years ago, they themselves were now silent and went into the shadow, and whoever is not blind , he sees that Vladimir Putin does not have a more faithful ally than Dmitry Medvedev. Another week, a dozen more telegram posts (maybe try with obscenities?) - and will be quarantined, call, let them go to the bunker, Putin will accept and understand. There is no irony here - there are questions about everyone in the Putin’s near Circle. What was happening to Shoigu, why Mishustin and Sobyanin did not speak, why Naryshkin was stuck, what was going on with Lavrov, what game Patrushev leads. Against the general background, only Medvedev looks perfect from the point of view of loyalty, and if there is no feeling that he has already proved his loyalty, then, probably, only because Putin simply does not read telegram. But you can bring a printout with you, he will definitely like it about the " stubborn Ukrainian chiefs."

Medvedev overcame the disgrace, almost overcame; The final overcoming will happen in the last minute - he will burst to Putin, probably, already under the roar of cotton , through the fire of smokes. The darker the possible denouement, the more Medvedev’s chances are again next to Putin until the successor return to the status of the successor - yes, it seems that now there is no particular struggle for this proud title. Is there life after Putin - for the near circle (in fact, where is Mishustin?) The survival is a distance, and those who are silent and tries not to appear in public look most intriguing. The current Medvedev - an unfamiliar, revived, active - looks even more desperate than during the time of disgrace and stay in the shade. Its telegram channel is an amazing document of the era, a diary of doom. A person fiercely fights literally for the right to find himself together with Putin before the court of history, another subject of struggle is no longer left. Medvedev could dodge, could remain in the shade, but made just such a choice, deserving in a sense even respect.