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“Kitchen opposition” was replaced by the impotent petitions

"Кухонных оппозиционеров" сменили импотенты с петициями

The graphomania specter is haunting the world’s largest country, graphomania political… the birthplace of Pushkin, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky does not get rid of the habit to Express their position with polwenning, nasty, made the cut with the literary canons of the scribble, in the hope of effectively and, most importantly, safely to convey their position to the powers that be.

Great people “scribbling” sung by Sergei Dovlatov four million denunciations in Stalin’s law enforcement agencies by sending a comparable number of people to certain death. 20 years later he’s under the chords of the song of Vladimir Vysotsky was bombarded with letters TV edition – from “unbelievable” to “Sportloto”.

Today the latter-day Chekhovian Vanka Zhukov took up a petition “village of my grandfather”, the benefit of appropriate site Change.org especially for them have opened, so that they despair not flipped out because the same straight line with the President a year to meet the need to write any slander, you will agree, is not enough. The most striking petition of the last days can be called upon to dismiss the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. A quarter of a million Russians opposed to young primary school teacher in his spare time he moonlighted as strippers, and the Crimean and other pensioners, for which the government has no money to hold…

So, without getting up from the sofa and without removing his lips from the bottle of cheap beer, active citizens believe that can change the appearance of state power… “Morons, blah!” – would the Minister of foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, but not in his rules again. And it’s not only in the desire to shield his boss. The question itself looks strange and useless. Is Alexei Kudrin and Dmitry Rogozin, which theoretically may replace Medvedev in may current conditions, overnight, or in the foreseeable future to become effective managers, which improved the magic life which replaced Lenin’s walkers online sidakov? “We’ve raised a bunch of idiots and dependents. The people that you have a brain? Ask them to raise the salary, no? Teachers) Remember the joke about the goldfish and three wishes. The girl asks nose, a hump or wool, then fish asks – why didn’t you wish to be smart, beautiful and rich?” – chuckles from the pages of Facebook over the fans of simple answers to complex questions the journalist Ivan Zasursky. To articulate the desire is clearly not our Forte! Filatov: “Well, to me, that died Kolka – my lucky neighbor” – and betrays our petitioner.

And not only the journalists and writers understand it. All the vanity and futility of the undertaking is aware of even the once Russian, now more Ukrainian political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky, who thinks 250 thousand – an extremely small and unrepresentative figure. They say, in Britain for a second referendum on leaving the EU were made by 7 million people. And it still didn’t help. In Russia, the resignation Medvedev frontire “Teddy” Internet get-together which, not knowing the management style of President Putin. But only egged him to do the opposite and keep his talkative favorite producitivy post No. 2, where he, hand on heart, decides not so much.

“In any country where there is more or less developed civil society and independent trade unions, of course, Medvedev the next day would have received protests from the Union, which brings together high school teachers, high schools, kindergartens!” says if not correct, then at least spectacular “antiprigarnoe strategy” in an interview Yesterday.ru Professor of Russian state pedagogical University. A. I. Herzen, national teacher of the Russian Federation Sergey Rukshin. Instead, have impotencelow and toothless graphomania, which, however, some preconditions for protest activity in Russia from time immemorial is not that much encouraged. No cannonballs in the side of Senate square, with Stolypin’s necktie Stolypin same cars, not to Sukhanovskaya prison, Lefortovo. “To inform” with the anonymous for Nestor Petrovich (Vladimir Putin) that his wife, Victoria I. Korovyansky, shaped tuneyadka – has always been preferable to go to the protest with specific slogans.

Residents of Rostov-on-don, asking the Russian President to remove from office the Governor of the region Vasily Golubev, because he had not kept promises made to the coach of football club “Rostov” Kurban Berdiyev. Why the sensational team of the season 2015/2016 is on the verge of collapse on the eve sudebnoy matches of the UEFA Champions League with Ajax… bad roads, No social services, nor the deplorable condition of sports infrastructure in General, are not forced to advocate for decisions and staffing decisions. Only absence in the team of stars of the European level, the purchase of which was also resented, for private investors in the southern region did not find the afternoon with fire and budget the money you have to “drive” from Fund to Fund. The petition, though does not enjoy the blockbuster, but an indicator of civic helplessness of the Russians appears in full.

It would seem that methods of influence on the President and the Governor are obvious. Come to the polls and vote for the opponents in spite of the official. But for the layman it is too subtle matter. Level profsoyuznogo of protest against the coercion of teachers into prostitution. Samarskiye of concerned citizens in kolichestve 73 thousand people asking Vladimir Putin to repair roads in the area. To respond to their “cry of the soul” authorities must, but how? To come with shovels and personally fill all the holes? Or “paving over” tens of billions of rubles, angering other regions, who did not get anything?

The more iconic a petition for the dissolution of the national team of Russia on football has collected about 900 signatures. Not bear the soul of a great nation another humiliation on the green lawns. And began our football fan wrote about his Argentine-Jamaican pain on the “change-orlovskih” pages. Some did not hesitate to admit that football Euro 2016 watched for the first time. Unaware Pisarchuk that each collection comes, in fact, a new team. Be required to develop and Finance the development program of children’s and youth football in German patterns have a “spiritual nation” not smart enough. And to make the same amount for providing adequate medical care to all children with cancer in the country, so they did not beg in social networks and on TV “the whole world” – not enough conscience and enthusiasm.

Russia has entered a new era toothless and ineffective political protest. Worthless “kitchen opposition” and “armchair political analysts” changed ispotentially authors of online petitions, banging out his opus to the delight of those against whom they are directed. In this light, the most useful for home-grown opposition of the petition will be a petition to ban all petitions with a request to block a website Change.org.

Explorer Noteru.com Sergey Runco

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