Mikhail Osokin: the Horrors of renovation and the ability to find enemies

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Михаил Осокин: Ужасы реновации и умение находить врагов

Mikhail Osokin talks about the main concerns of the Russian authorities

Mikhail Osokin on Sobesednik.ru — about the main concerns of the authorities: the dragging of the demolition of five-story building and opposition to the state Department.

Revolt of deputies: a group of representatives of administrative bodies of different districts of Moscow addressed to the state Duma with an appeal to reject the law on the renovation. More than 60 municipal deputies signed the document, which States: “the Bill includes provisions that violate the constitutional rights of citizens and critically deteriorate the life of Muscovites”.

Deputies, apparently, familiar with office correspondence of their councils with the mayor’s office, saying that in Moscow will begin “the construction of houses in violation of health, fire, building, environmental and other standards.” Rebellious and municipal Council members worried about the same thing and ordinary people in the capital in the program of renovation of a suspected corrupt powerful motivated.

It’s already being compared to the events of 1812: they say that since the French invasions and fires Moscow has experienced such a large-scale redrawing. Will be demolished entire neighborhoods — and that these polls were: 37% of Muscovites called the main goal of the renovation of the enriching construction companies. In the media leaked the details about the program: the list for demolition was not the worst, but well-located homes, and only 55% of buildings are beyond repair Khrushchev. This further reinforces the suspicions of many about the possible corruption.

In the program on demolition of houses will scroll a lot of money, and not surprisingly, many officials in Moscow just take a Herculean effort to push through this program. Head of the city Duma Alexey Shaposhnikov urged to submit to the residents of demolished houses — those that do not want to move unlike most of its neighbors. And quite frankly the secret desire of the authorities gave the head of the Metropolitan Fund overhaul of Vera Moskvina — at a meeting on the renovation, she said: “We’ve been in democracy! You cannot give people something they can solve.”

A favorite theme of the officials at such meetings: they say of the building to decay, and describe different horror — like in the popular online video about the crazy crane in the old apartment.

In General, at every meeting with the Muscovites, the authorities frighten them that the house in ruins. In their presentations featured a rotten wall, emergency wiring, leaky batteries — and the most telling of these stories is sometimes like a colorful vision of the biblical prophets: “Empty your houses, and will inhabit there, wild beasts of the desert; and he shall be filled with owls; and ostriches shall dwell, and satyrs will dance there…” Meanwhile, critics of the renovation said that the authorities plan to resettle the inhabitants not only of old houses, but it is more suitable buildings. At the parliamentary hearings in the state Duma, Muscovites were told that the demolition included and part of the brick buildings that can serve more than a hundred years.

Unhappy trying to reach out to the Federal authorities, write letters to the Kremlin and Moscow renovation can be a very loud topic of the upcoming presidential election. There is no doubt that the final decision on this program will take Putin and Moscow for him is extremely important. Therefore, as suggested by many political analysts, the President will look at the outcome of the struggle between Sobyanin and citizens: if Putin will see that the mayor is pushing for the situation, he will take his side — and if the Muscovites will take the upper hand in this confrontation, the President does not support the demolition of homes in the capital.

And another important election theme, probably, will be the unwinding of the foreign enemy and the idea of rallying against it, it may strengthen the position of the main candidate in the elections. The theme of the enemy is always present on state television, in speeches by officials, and this theme finds a variety of manifestations: I remember how even in the commercials about learning English appeared ugly Americans, which has curator of the Tretyakov gallery.

The recipe is not new, political analysts call it one of the most important methods of maintaining the status quo in the state: the population is easier to manage if to announce that he was going to attack, and show him the enemy. And now, it seems, at the election of the Russians again will scare the threat from the West — and the preparations for the promotion of this campaign has already begun: in the Federation Council announced that it decided to create the Commission which will be engaged in tracing the “hostile activity” abroad. To the public, the Commission will publish reports with terrible details.

The senators, however, did not stop there: they wanted to strengthen the identification of enemy traces within the country. Nonprofit organizations have long complained about a law that many of them were ranked as “foreign agents” — according to them, the act imposed unreasonable restrictions for NGOs compared to the other. And now in the Federation Council has decided to correct this injustice: the senators said that it is necessary to classify foreign agents and private individuals — citizens who receive money from abroad. The social media joke: “And to whom then it is necessary to classify citizens who are on the contrary taking money abroad? Probably for the patriots.”

And among the protesters against the demolition of Moscow five-story building already is also looking for a foreign trace. The head of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin at the parliamentary hearings of the renovation called critics of the program “politicians and demagogues” and said that the protests against the demolition of houses paid for. And others are already actively developing this thesis: not just paid for — people to these meetings supposedly derive all those foreign agents. Such statements, for example, are based on the fact that among the organizers of the rally against the renovation was the opposition party PARNAS its activists of Pro — Kremlin media attribute to the secret communications with the US state Department.

Welcome friend. The protests of Russians against public utilities and municipal authorities have repeatedly tried to explain the machinations of enemies from abroad, and, in particular, I recall the vivid statements of the debaters in one of the TV programs: “Western intelligence funded by the dissatisfaction in the field of housing! While the last of the rusty pipe is not replaced, you will then hold protests!”

And now the same is trying to say about the opponents of the demolition of the Moscow five-story building. Do not be surprised if there will be proposals to start the search for foreign agents and among municipal deputies who signed the appeal to the state Duma with an appeal to reject the law on the renovation. After all, as taught by comrade Stalin, “enemies should be able to find anywhere.”

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