Beautiful Russia of the future

What could be the country of Alexei Navalny

Today it became known about the death of Alexei Navalny in the correctional colony of special regime No. 3 in the settlement of the Harp of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. For many years, he has been the main opposition politician in Russia. “Cold” recalls his political program and shows in 10 points what Russia could become if Alexei Navalny had become president.

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The end of the war

“Those hundreds of billions that Russia are now throwing on the wars in Syria and Ukraine, to help distant countries, it is better to spend on improving life at home,” said Alexei Navalny in his presidential program back in 2018.

After the start of a full -scale war in Ukraine, a politician, then already in conclusion, made specific proposals about how it should be terminated. He suggested: to withdraw all troops from the territory of Ukraine, to return to the borders of 1991; Together with Ukraine, the USA, the European Union and Britain, seek acceptable ways of compensation for damage caused to Ukraine, as well as investigate war crimes together with international institutions.

“We must stop all wars, obvious and implicit. We do not need them, they lead to the losses of our citizens, they are expensive, they make us poor. ”

Russia is part of Europe

“Aware of our history and traditions, we must be part of Europe and follow the European development path. We do not have another, and we do not need another, ” said Alexei Navalny. He talked about the need to use the unique geographical position of Russia - this is an opportunity to become a respected partner for everyone. “In the modern world, it is more profitable to make friends and trade than to fight. In the modern world, they respect that country whose citizens live freely and in abundance, ”Navalny emphasized.

Russia of Navalny was supposed to become a leading country in Europe and Asia, to expand influence through economic power and cultural expansion, including support for the Russian language around the world.

The politician promised to introduce a visa -free regime with European countries. “Europe does not mind, the problem in the“ idiotic ”Russian government,” Navalny said .

Power to the regions

“Formally remaining the federation, Russia has turned into a unitary state to this day. It is necessary to begin movement in the opposite direction - to local self -government as the basis of the entire structure of power - and restore the balance of powers of the federal and regional authorities, which is now violated in favor of the center. Russia needs a federal principle of device, ”Navalny said in his program.

The politician also suggested that the regions independently distribute taxes, determine expenditure obligations, make decisions on the introduction of certain laws, for example, on the possibility of concluding gay brothers. Navalny declared the need to exclude higher authorities from the formation of lower ones, thus providing complete independence to the regions and municipalities. The latter had to become a key link in the power system.

“More money and powers must be given to cities so that the main government is lower. This will protect us from separatism. In the ideal Russia, the future Kazan should compete with the embankment of the shutters, and not the subjects of the federation with each other, ”Navalny said in an interview with the economist Sergei Guriev.

Mitigation of criminal law and reform of the FSIN

The politician who was tortured in the colony in Russia wanted to begin the humanization of the FSIN with public control and real protection of the rights of prisoners.

“We need to radically change the work of the FSIN system: from simply the“ service of execution of punishments ”, which only breeds crime, to turn it into an institute of re -education of stumbled citizens,” Navalny said in his presidential program.

Navalny proposed to greatly reduce the number of criminal articles by which detention is possible, decriminalize “thought-crushing”, for example, to cancel the 282nd article of the Criminal Code (“extremism”) and criminal liability for insulting religious feelings and slander. According to a number of corpus delicti, as the politician believed, it is necessary to mitigate the punishment, especially in the economic sphere, making imprisonment with an extreme measure. Navalny also wanted to conduct an amnesty for convicts on criminal articles that would be recognized as unreasonably cruel, and expand the scope of the jury.

“We have prisons now scored by young, stupid people. who are sitting 228. For a minimum number of drugs they break their lives, they are planted for five years. This is madness and stupidity. Most of the people must be released, and real drug dealers are planted, ”the politician spoke about the need for partial decriminalization of narcotic articles.

Independence of the judicial system

One of the main reforms that Navalny sought is the return of the independence of the judicial system. He intended to reduce the influence of the executive branch on it, led by the president and dismantle the “judicial vertical”. “Of course, you can’t do without lustration of judges, convicted of participation in non -legal, custom and political processes,” Navalny said in his presidential program.

Justices should be elected by direct vote of citizens at the local level, thought Navalny. He also proposed to introduce a two -year quarantine for candidates for a judge - after working in a civil service, in the judicial system or law enforcement.

Cases between judges are distributed randomly, and the institute of the chairmen of the courts was canceled - this could be the judicial system of Alexei Navalny.

Lustration

“The objectivity and effectiveness of lustration will guarantee a commission specially created from representatives of different branches of power. It will also be engaged in the identification and cancellation of harmful laws adopted over the past 17 years, and the investigation of facts of political repression, ”said Navalny’s lustration in 2018.

He proposed to identify the circle of persons whose actions caused significant harm to public interests and were in clear contradiction with constitutional principles, principles of law, and also violated human rights and freedoms and professional ethics.

“Lustration is a soft form of public punishment, it does not mean exemption from criminal liability for those whose actions directly violated the Criminal Code,” Navalny emphasized. Separately, those who should fall under lustrations, the politician said : “They must be subjected to: persons who were in the political leadership of the country, starting in 2011, heads of the United Russia party, leaders and main people of the media responsible for the spread of lies and propaganda.”

The politician also believed that officials, judges, investigators and police officers who are responsible for political persecution and falsification of elections must be held accountable in accordance with applicable law. The statute of limitations for such cases should be canceled.

The fight against corruption

Navalny founded the Fund for the fight against corruption and exposed the country's main corrupt officials for many years. The politician considered the corruption of one of the main problems that does not allow modern Russia to develop.

In his presidential program, he proposed to establish a special independent structure to combat corruption, which is not part of the law enforcement system, and tighten punishment for corruption crimes. The politician also planned to start an active search for Russian money stolen as a result of corruption crimes and return it to Russia.

The fight against inequality

“Wealth for everyone, not a wealth for 0.1%” - this is how one of the main software points of Alexei Navalny sounded . The politician proposed to increase the minimum wage to 25 thousand rubles ( in 2018, when the dollar was about 65 rubles. Given the current exchange rate, this amount could increase to 35 thousand rubles. - approx. “Cold” ).

Navalny demanded to make housing accessible to everyone: “Deburopolization and demonopolize the construction market, reduce mortgage lending rates to 2% and actively help in preparing infrastructure for new microdistricts.”

He also proposed to introduce a compensation tax on the use of infrastructure created by the labor of former generations and dishonestly privatized in the 1990s and 2000s, and similar payments for the use of infrastructure of the former state-owned enterprises of the regional level to transfer to the regions.

Free and independent media

“To cancel laws that restrict freedom of speech in any way; make self -regulatory Internet; reduce and limit the share of the state in the media; To exclude the possibility of concentration in the same hands of several media and shares of federal television channels over 25%, ”Navalny suggested in his program.

The politician also talked about the need for state grant support for independent media to prevent market monopolization. “The decision to issue such grants should be made not by officials, but by independent public commissions,” he emphasized .

Canceling the draft

“We advocate a complete transition to the contract-free army. The main factor in Russia's security is the professional army. The draft army is ineffective and is too expensive for society, ”Navalny said in 2018.

“The draft army is a tax on the poor. Moscow is bought off, so those who do not have money, who lives in small cities, go to the army. A person has a poor family, but instead, let's take the breadwinner to build someone’s cottage, ”the politician said during one of the trips around the country as part of the presidential campaign.

“Don't give up. No need, you can’t give up. If this happened, this means that we are unusually strong at that moment, since they decided to kill me. Well, you need to use this power. "

Alexey Navalny