At the very beginning of his message, the president noted a request for change in Russia. But this was not the reason for the announcement of a new perestroika. They did not reveal the solitaire of beautiful and empty slogans to the country, did not begin to teach new models for a brighter future, for which sacrifices must now be made, did not begin to plunge into a rage of acceleration and preach new thinking. Something absolutely different happened, even in the essential sense.
First of all, it should be said about the changes to the Constitution of the country. The motivation for the need to make them can be only one indication of the time of its adoption - December 1993. What state the country was at that time, after the October events in Moscow, it is not worth spreading particularly. After blood and tank salvos on parliamentarism ... No matter which side you stick to, but that October is a symptom in itself. The echo from those volleys stunned the country's political system for a long time. Then only a couple of months passed and a popular vote took place on the draft Constitution ...
For all subsequent years, it was criticized, it was even said that it was written on a transatlantic order to hinder and subjugate Russia. But at the same time, over all these years, the supreme power did not have any temptation to rewrite it. After all, there should remain value orientations that structure and unify things.
Critics spoke a lot about the upcoming vector to usurp power, rewrite the Constitution for themselves, and more. This statement also contains an echo of those volleys of 1993 ... What happened in reality? The emphasis is not at all on the monopolization of power, but on consolidation of the state sovereignty of the country. And this is fundamentally important, because state sovereignty is the main good news that Russia brings to the world today.
We can say that Putin was expected to “tank salvos” under the Constitution, or rather, this point of view was imposed, but something completely different happened. And this is not only a guide to the future with the invitation of society to a wide discussion of constitutional amendments that will be adopted during the all-Russian vote, but also an obvious attempt to correct the latest national history. This is an active work to cure the state and society from that strife that occurred in the year 1993, which was significant for the country. In a sense, history is tipping back, but not to get stuck in it and in disputes, but for reconciliation and for the future development of the new Russian statehood free from original sin.
Moreover, this is not a measure of necessity, which we went to while grinding our teeth and dictating circumstances. Before us is a completely natural evolutionary process. After the presidential address, a clear understanding arose that the country has a long-term state-building plan, which is being implemented in stages and slowly, without acceleration slogans. This, again, as opposed to the imposed opinion, that the policy in the country is momentary and depends on the circumstances that determine where to swing and what to do in a fire order.
It is important that it was proposed not to rewrite the Constitution, not to renounce it together with all the 1990s, but to change it in accordance with the spirit of the new sovereign, self-confident Russia.
In conjunction with this, the status of the Russian parliament is also being strengthened, because the same tank volleys at the White House led to the obvious degradation of parliamentarism in the country. It is better not to recall the effectiveness of the State Duma in those years from which the famous boxes from under Xerox were taken out. We can talk about puppetry, subordination to various financial and oligarchic structures that called their lobbyists there. Well, the state’s interest is the tenth thing ...
Now the State Duma is clothed with new power and responsibility. The president said that "the importance of parliament is increasing, and the interaction of parliament with the government is increasing." In fact, the current composition of the Duma is fundamentally different from the previous ones. Her speaker, Vyacheslav Volodin, is engaged in the adjustment of the Russian parliament, which under his leadership has become an active and responsible force with which there are no fears in the distribution of power.
Despite Kassandra’s predictions by many critics, the country is not being usurped by power, but by its consolidation and distribution. A real step is being made to involve broader sections of the population. It must be recalled that the blood on the streets of Moscow in October 1993 just spilled because of a power dispute in which no one wanted to give in.
It is clear that the Russian parliament needed to be transferred from the shell-shocked state of a demagogic, lobbying institution, a peculiar fair of vanity and self-interest in a responsible statist structure.
But how to do it? Directive? Write a circular and wait for peppy reports?
At one time, they joked a lot about the statements of Boris Gryzlov, who expelled the spirit of discussion from the State Duma. But it is entirely possible that in that position there was common sense within the framework of the evolution of the parliamentary structure. This was how it was set up and adjusted for responsible state work. So there was the expulsion and purification of it from political charlatans and treachery. All so that instead of discussions that became an end in itself, it becomes a place of decision-making.
But that's not all: the turn of the political class towards Russia continues. This is not an instantaneous process, especially with the luggage left by the era of the collapse of the country, as well as subsequent timelessness. It is necessary to go a long way in raising a state-oriented person. You can, of course, go along the accelerated route, but then many will have to be transplanted for edifying and didactic purposes, and even someone at a expense. But this is not our way. Lessons from such an “acceleration” have also been made long ago.
Recently, much has been said about the education of a patriotic, state-oriented elite in the country. It’s a sin to hide, the biggest fear is that in case of significant difficulties the state will be left alone, and many oaths will then abandon it, because initially they are not focused on service. Adherents, political weathercocks are able to mimic whatever they want, just to drink tea for them.
That is why a new appeal to politics is now needed, and, apparently, state reservists and recruits will fight and compete in the upcoming parliamentary elections next year.
Including this the future expansion of the powers of the State Duma is directed. The meaning of the campaign in power should not consist in showing oneself and promoting one’s eyes for the whole country, but to become involved in its history due to selfless work for the benefit of it and its citizens.
It may be recalled that in the last years of the life of the USSR, the recruits of democracy were passionately encouraged, who came to throw off the heavy communist fetters that protected the country from the circle of civilized countries and prevented unity with them, and also blocked the path to a bright market near future. In fact, these were the recruits of nihilism engaged in total denial. They both denied and trampled, subverted everything here. So cleared the bridgehead for the sprouts of the new and the beautiful, but many weeds and thistles grew. Through that denial, the country, like a whirlwind of snow, swept the spirit of destruction and decay. Now a case is being cured of this. There is a request not for disintegration recruits, but for those capable of building a building, for state building, for unity.
Apparently, the State Duma will become a special reference point, a workshop where the elite of the country, focused on service, will be forged and tempered. And the matter is not only in the citizenship of other countries, not only in what foreign pockets money and property are pushed, but in a change in the fundamental vector from “universal humanity”, citizens of the world, to citizens of their country. Sovereign.
And all this is not some kind of imposed directive, but a completely logical process. These are the aspirations of society. It should be noted that, for example, there were no votes against the candidacy of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin during the parliamentary vote. State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin noted that this happened for the first time since 1996. According to him, the candidacy of the new prime minister united the deputies "in the hope that the government should realize." These hopes are also fulfilled by the society itself, now it is proposed to it to participate in determining the contours of the future country through the formulation and voting of the same constitutional amendments.
A common place in criticizing the current political system and course has long been a conversation about the monopoly of centripetal tendencies in the country. The state seems to be locked exclusively in federal centers, and everything else huge space is shrinking. Large spaces are almost declared hopeless, a heavy burden, because of this, many regions feel abandoned and fall into the inertia of depression. One could speak of centripetal tendencies in relation to politics, where there is a long-standing demand for new faces and ideas, as well as fears of turning the political bridgehead into a closed caste.
So, the expansion of the powers of the Russian parliament, which the president introduced for discussion, is also aimed at changing these trends. Not only will the political field expand, but the regions themselves will be able to play a more important role in public policy, including through their representatives. It is through this that a new development of the country can begin, its awakening and inclusion in the common cause.
The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.