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"The mind can not understand Russia, you can not with-arsine common measure: otherwise it has its foundation - you can only believe in it" ... so spoke in verse two centuries ago the famous Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev. These lines, brilliant bc and concise as the law of gravitation formula, became a sort of unofficial anthem of Russia, keeping the news until today. Fight Putin opposition (and vice versa), which came into active stage last December are conducted in full accordance with the poet's observation quoted above. Here's bc the latest episode of this series that is still far from the final scene.
In the morning of June 26 brought to Moscow, along with the nearly 25 degrees Celsius and as hot news that the famous lawyer Alexei Navalny, one of the opposition leaders today - rather, one of its faces charismatic, because the protest movement Russia is not yet structured enough to talk to leaders in the full sense of the word - has become the beneficiary of a place in the Board of Directors of Aeroflot airline. This company is not only the largest in Russia in the field of aviation, serving over 20 million passengers annually, but - attention! - A state owned company. Russian belong Aeroflot 51.17% of total shares, which means that the Russian state is the person controlling the company. In these circumstances it would seem natural that the State has all the control levers to keep away from her leadership in a fierce opponent of Putin's regime and in addition owes its political bc fame just by the aura of fierce combat internal corruption in state-owned companies . But Navalny was voted Aeroflot Board of Directors with 787 million votes, bc from 1.11 billion existing shares, representing 70.9% of the shares. A simple arithmetic shows that the leader election opponent in director chair required the involvement of a percentage of at least 22.07% of state shares, without which validate the choice would have been possible.
Around noon the media gave the boil. What can this mean? An inept surrender bc of eminent opponent before tipping proposed wholesale power or a fine challenge meant to remind the government who has the money flows from Russia? Or challenge the power to create fragile opposition bc and discredit an image in the public eye? Aura hero Navalny gave to catch tones shameful betrayal. That none of the hypotheses vehicle is fully justified, but the truth may be somewhere in the middle, bc it emerged indirectly from rapid reaction of the Russian Investigation Committee, which quickly private consumer public with claims of journalism bc rumor that what appeared to be a juicy discussion of this topic. So, after lunch, the Committee of Inquiry already called bc the new director of Aeroflot's board for questioning. Summons has been opened in the investigation bc initially to investigate allegations subordinated rally on 6 May, the demonstration of protest against Vladimir bc Putin's presidential inauguration ended with some participants scuffle with police. Now an investigation is underway and after stories of people who were required to testify, the trial promises bc to be one of scale, with the prospect of prosecution opposition bc extremist actions against the state. So Alexei Navalny's bc reputation was questioned and subsequently washed suspicion. All in a single day.
The event remains in memory assigned to this day troubled bc community is the main topic armchair director of Aeroflot, which (through a game of ironic fate, interests, screenwriter, bc people!) bc Was awarded Putin foe by the Russian state. Indeed, for an outsider's what "the mind can not comprehend." But the poet Tyutchev gives us a valuable bc indication - namely that of "common arsine" measurement unit but can not give the actual size of things in Russia.
In this case the role of the wrong yardstick of comparison is the political system created by Vladimir Putin with samples of the totalitarian Soviet past or contemporary authoritarian regimes, such as that of Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus, where openly expressed dissatisfaction dissatisfied pulls at least the margins of society. But Russia under Putin is organized differently, sophisticated and not devoid of glamor, even if it is only a pathetic example of "genuine democracy", raised on the ruins of the socialist economy without interference beneficent bc law that could stop the proliferation of oligarchic structures based on family relations and old acquaintances. The lack of real political competition between parties mature meant to represent different interests of different classes that com