| 1. Conflicts in the Tandem. End of the Play
A game depicting an alleged conflict between Vladimir Putin
and Dmitry Medvedev went on for a long time and was very exciting.
A huge number of people were persuaded that the President
was an alternative to the Prime Minister. Political scientists
also tried to look clever saying very smart things. There
even emerged such organisations like the Institute of Contemporarily
Development, INSOR, [by Igor Yurgens] that built their modernisation
concepts on such "differences" [between Vladimir
Putin and Dmitry Medvedev].
Why all this snow job for so long? There were many reasons
for this, but now I would like to single out only one, perhaps,
the key reason.
While the media and the "liberal public" were discussing
in detail the differences and conflicts in the tandem, time
for mobilization of forces for the fight against the tandem
was lost. Hopes on Dmitry Medvedev as an alternative to Vladimir
Putin did not allow to form alternative to both of them.
Such was the idea of the playwright.
Now that being said, the game is over. In his recent television
interview Dmitry Medvedev acknowledged not only the fact that
he and Vladimir Putin shared the same basic principles, but
also his complete subordination to Vladimir Putin.
The authority has 100 per cent and toughly consolidated around
Vladimir Putin on the threashold of the elections; whereas
the "progressive public" ended up with nothing instead
of hopes for Medvedev's modernisation. And it also remained
weak rushing between other pseudo alternatives
2. Opposition Parties. The Play is Going On
The bang from falling off the Putins alternative mask
from Medvedevs face did not clear away the illusions of those
who continued seeking this alternative in, for example, such
Kremlin's projects as the Just Russia party. It is obvious
that the party participated in Putin's plan targeted at preservation
of his lifetime governing. It participated [in this project]
in the crucial moment voting for the extension of the presidential
term from four to six years. However, the mass media and the
public were happy to enlist this party in the ranks of the
opposition.
The same refers to [Vladimir Zhirinovskys] Liberal Democratic
Party, LDPR, despite its systematic voting for the same things
as the ruling United Russia voted for in the State Duma. Some
people even managed to discern an alternative to Vladimir
Putin in Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, despite of
his statement immediately after taking the post of the Chairman
of the Right Cause party that it was improper and incorrect
to be an opposition.
It looks like our media community likes calling everyone
but the ruling United Russia an opposition! Then everything
looks more lively and dynamic! AND THE PLAY BECOMES MORE INTERESTING.
3. Elections as a Signal System
Let us assume that any of these parties receives a large percentage
[at the parliamentary elections] on December 4. Then what
would be the message the authorities get? It would be very
clear and unequivocal: the TRICK SUCCEDED! And that the Kremlin's
projects turned out to be an effective means for snow work,
exactly the same as the performance of alleged contradictions
in the tandem.
Having read the text up to this point someone will probably
yell loudly: we have to spoil the ballots! But it is no longer
possible to prove the obvious: spoiled or non-received ballots
are much easier to replace by a ballot marked as a vote for
the ruling United Russia party, it is much easier for them
to do than to fraud with ballots with a votes for some specific
parties.
So, does this mean that we should all vote for the Communists?
It seems to be the natural conclusion from the above. The
Communist Party has never been a Kremlins project and did
not support amendments to the Constitution. But let us recall
what [I have already said] about the signals the authorities
will get in the elections.
Mass-scale voting in favour of Stalinists (Ed. the Communist
party is in favour of Joseph Stalin) will absolutely clearly
signal of the following: THE SOCIETY HAS BEEN MISSING A STONG
HAND. This means that persecutions and tightening of the
screws are not only permitted but must be carried out
I'm not going to campaign for the YABLOKO party here, which
also has never been a Kremlins project and has been in opposition
to Vladimir Putin since 1999. I just would like to say that
in case of mass-scale voting for us, the government would
receive a very clear signal that the society does not need
any "strong hand", but needs simply a DEMOCRATIC
LAW-GOVERNED state.
The "strong hand is not an alternative to Vladimir
Putin, but a European-style democracy is such an alternative.
See also:
Elections
to the State Duma 2011
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