| The first thing I find depressing is the dismal monotony
of the President’s state of the nation addresses and the use of a
vast number of right words, which are not backed up by deeds.
All that was stated in the present address on social policies is diametrically
opposed to the actions of the Government. We can also note an abrupt increase
in the power of the secret services and the heads of the interior, military
and secret services in the presidential entourage that has managed to
set him against civil society and civil organisations. He has given a
signal to all levels of the interior, the military and secret services
to prosecute human rights activists and other structures in civil society.
This is the only part of the presidential address that will be implemented,
judging from previous experience. This means that an increase in the number
of spy trials, involving human rights activists as the main agents of
international imperialism, is quite possible now.
At the same time the statements on foreign policy correspond to the
reality far more than the statements about domestic policy.
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