From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/1/2005 2:05 AM
Jule, 28, 2005
Boris Berezovsky: People against Putin
As the process of public debates in Russia today is castrated, and the Kremlin is in a condition to carry out a juggling of elections, the change of a regime - is a unique way for those who wants to rescue the democratic idea in Russia: Today the question of authority in Russia may not be determined only by polling districts any more. As it happened in Ukraine , in Lebanon and Kyrgyzstan , it will be solved in streets.
I promoted Vladimir Putin's election as the successor of the first democraticly elected president of Russia Boris Yeltsin. As today gebesh-mafia structures rule the country and manipulate judicial system, it is considered, that Yeltsin personally had wanted to pick up to itself the successor in order to avoid judical prosecution in the future. Actually we - those who have elected Putin - were entrusted to find the person, capable of continuing Yeltsin's reforms instead of protecting him and his family.
Yeltsin -is the fearless person, and he thought not of own safety, but of preservation of democratic idea which he had brought in Russia . However today this idea turned out to be under the threat from the direction of the successor selected by us.
I admit my responsibility for upholding Putin. We were not close friends, but we had to work side by side in critical situations, and I never doubted about his sincerity. Putin acts starting from his convictions. A problem is, that these convictions - including the idea stating that only in case of concentration of authority in one hands makes possible to provide prosperity of Russia - are wrong. And this most serious mistake leads Russia to political crash.
Certainly, any person occupying the highest post in the state, is not able to avoid the miscalculations, even of fundamental character - in particular it concerns to the periods of shocks. Yeltsin - is not an exception, but he could recognize his mistakes. So, when he was retiring on last day in 1999, he made an excuse for the war in the Chechen Republic.Whereas Putin, apparently, is not able to understand and recognize his mistakes, and persistently adheres to the chosen course even if his failure is already obvious to the world.
One of Yeltsin's mistakes consisted in his inability to set a problem of the moral order as the paramount importance in the program of reforms. It was necessary for Russia to repent for stalinshina and GULAG. All citizens should have repented, without exception - as it was done by Germans after 1945.
This mistake has serious importance: because of it Putin's blind belief in the centralized authority has turned back so that the control of the state was grasped by the special services again. And if the national confession for GULAG-ic epoch had been held, its direct consequence would have become the dissolution of Communist Party and an interdiction for former employees of KGB to hold political posts.
Although in the postcommunistic countries where the quantity of victims and collaborators was estimated by millions, and to draw the distinction between these two categories now and then is simply impossible - similar process of ' political self-defense ' always proceeds uneasily, the problem could have been solved by the reasonable way as it was done, say, in the Czech Republic. However, as in Russia , anything similar did not happen, its special services remained untouched and kept opportunities for returning to a political arena, which they have managed to carry out today. Due to restoration of political authority of gebesh structures in the presence of Putin and their attempts to shut the mouth of the otherwise-minded, Russia has again turned into ' the country of defectors '.
However, independent politicians and independent MASS-MEDIA cannot be slured over, whether independent monetary sources are not blocked: for this reason Putin's Kremlin has to passed to the offensive against so-called 'oligarches'. Just these reasons caused the arrest of Michael Hodorkovski and the trial under him. Due to the liquidation of independent capital sources of the special services, prevailing today in the Kremlin, they hope to put an end to the independent political forces in Russia .
In the absence of the centres of independent ideas in the country, there affirms the atmosphere of fear. However the fear not only cripples the souls: it reduces the quality of management. Yeltsin intuitively understood, that the modern country cannot be reuled with the help of fear and the centralized system when decisions ' are lowered from above '. Therefore he insisted on necessity to reform the relationship between citizens and the state.
Putin still could not understand, that today the centralized political system also is unable to reveal and correct its own mistakes, as well as in Soviet times. Putin - which you will not name him as well-educated person - sincerely and deeply being mistaken, leads Russia to the disintegration reminding that, who accompanied with the wreck of the Soviet state.
People begin to realize this. They see, that Putin's aspiration to create the strong and effective modern state may not be realized, as the modern state is ruled 'not from above', but 'from below' - by the hands of the well informed citizens compelling governors to reveal and correct their mistakes.
As it seems,even Putin suspects, that his regime is powerless in practice. It is one of the reasons on which Russia behaves so aggressively concerning neighbouring countries - Ukraine and Georgia , and also aspires to keep military presence upon such regions as Pridnestovie (the self-proclaimed republic in the territory of Moldova ). The Kremlin considers, that with inconsiderate actions in ' near foreign countries ' he is capable of convincing Russians in his own omnipotence.
As the process of public debates in Russia today is castrated, and the Kremlin is in a condition to carry out a juggling of elections, the change of a regime - is a unique way for those who wants to rescue democratic idea in Russia . It doen't make sense to cling to illusions. Those who opposes Putin, should decide, what they want, and should precisely declare: if the regime does not obey the constitution, they have right to force him to respect the organic law by all necessary means.
Today the question for authority in Russia may not be determined by only on polling districts any more. As it happened in Ukraine , in Lebanon and Kyrgyzstan , it will be solved in streets.
Boris Berezovsky having occuped in the presence of president Yeltsin a post of the assistant of the secretary of Security Council of Russia, today lives in exile in London
"Daily Times", Pakistan, 28.07.05
http://chechenpress.co.uk/english/news/2005/07/28/05.shtml
