For me, Russia always seemed to be a political paradox. I had never understood how such, mhm-mhm, strange people can remain in power here. I'll skip our previous "sovereigns", and I'll talk only about our XXI-century politics.
Our actual president came to power in spring, 2000. Even the elections were odd - he was selected mainly because of the fact that Yeltsin said he is the best candidate; it was a nonstandart case of continuity of policy. Nobody knew who is this bald-headed, short, but surely imposing man. In the beginning of his first term, V.V.(strange contradiction with famous Wachowsky's film's main hero*) seemed to be a normal politician, but then some weird facts started to be out of tune. Short review without chronoligical order:
-"bump off in toilets", about bombardment of people in Grozny
-"come to me, banderlogs" - the only thing V.V., according to his works, could say to oppositions. In other words, he considers himself as python Kaa and members of opposition as stupid, cowardly, and clamorous monkeys. [All in all, demsotrations are useless here. Famous Russian XX-th century writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote that the main part of success of any manifestation is publicity, in other words, support of public opinion. It turned out that this main part is not utterly inadequate.]
-Mikhail Khodarkovsky's case
-Putin-Medevedev exchange of power
-"Pussy Riot" case
-the Russian Orthodox Church case
-V.V. prolonged the time of presidency from 4 to 6 years, which is already anti-democratic, and then changed the maximum quantity of presidency for one politician from 2 to 3 [no comments here]
-the famous 146% case and all the other ballot riggings
etc. etc. etc.
No conclusions, think it all yourself.
*P.S There are some interesting parallels in our real life with this film. Europeans and Americans watch it as a fiction movie, but we consider this flim more futuristic than fantastic.
Our actual president came to power in spring, 2000. Even the elections were odd - he was selected mainly because of the fact that Yeltsin said he is the best candidate; it was a nonstandart case of continuity of policy. Nobody knew who is this bald-headed, short, but surely imposing man. In the beginning of his first term, V.V.(strange contradiction with famous Wachowsky's film's main hero*) seemed to be a normal politician, but then some weird facts started to be out of tune. Short review without chronoligical order:
-"bump off in toilets", about bombardment of people in Grozny
-"come to me, banderlogs" - the only thing V.V., according to his works, could say to oppositions. In other words, he considers himself as python Kaa and members of opposition as stupid, cowardly, and clamorous monkeys. [All in all, demsotrations are useless here. Famous Russian XX-th century writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote that the main part of success of any manifestation is publicity, in other words, support of public opinion. It turned out that this main part is not utterly inadequate.]
-Mikhail Khodarkovsky's case
-Putin-Medevedev exchange of power
-"Pussy Riot" case
-the Russian Orthodox Church case
-V.V. prolonged the time of presidency from 4 to 6 years, which is already anti-democratic, and then changed the maximum quantity of presidency for one politician from 2 to 3 [no comments here]
-the famous 146% case and all the other ballot riggings
etc. etc. etc.
No conclusions, think it all yourself.
*P.S There are some interesting parallels in our real life with this film. Europeans and Americans watch it as a fiction movie, but we consider this flim more futuristic than fantastic.
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