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An Alternative to Vladimir Putin

Sergei Mitrokhins blog at the Echo Moskvi web-site

October 2, 2011

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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