Do you sometimes want to be somewhere in a parallel reality?

Imagine: in our reality gloomy depressive autumn rain is pouring, COVID is raging.

But in reality, which is somewhere nearby, a gentle sun is shining, no one even heard about COVID and life goes on in the usual "pre-war" sequence.

As a kid, I was a fanatical science fiction fan.

And in theory, this way of getting rid of problems should have attracted me.

However, apparently, in me a sense of realism is too strongly developed.

I believe that one must live in the reality that is.

But there are phenomena in our reality that my "seething and indignant mind" categorically refuses to recognize as the natural course of things.

One of the most important such phenomena is the existence of a regime of mutual economic sanctions between Russia and Ukraine.

I am very glad that such thoughts are swarming not only in my head.

Speaking the other day via video link during a round table on trade and economic cooperation between Moscow and Kiev, a prominent Ukrainian politician, chairman of the political council of the Opposition Platform - For Life party Viktor Medvedchuk said: “The sanctions should be lifted.

This movement should definitely be two-way, because we remember the history of these sanctions.

They were introduced by Russia as a retaliatory measure after Ukraine joined the EU sanctions against Russia. "

An excellent program of action, which the current Kiev authorities, however, are in no way going to implement.

Modern Ukrainian political realities in a very vivid and concentrated form manifested themselves in the course of the scandalous story with the refusal of the official Kiev to supply a new Russian vaccine against coronavirus.

The same Viktor Medvedchuk turned to Vladimir Putin with a very humanly understandable and logical request to transfer the Russian vaccine to Ukraine.

The President of the Russian Federation expressed his readiness to do this in case of a request from the relevant Ukrainian official structures.

“The corresponding Kiev official structures” is in this case the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

Since this department is engaged not in an ephemeral "struggle for the purity of Ukrainian statehood", but in a real fight against COVID, its head Maxim Stepanov behaved at first "politically illiterate" - he did not rule out such a possibility.

But he was immediately invited to the US Embassy for an "educational conversation."

As a result of this conversation, American diplomats proudly reported on social networks: Ukraine will not buy the Russian vaccine.

The story is very shameful and very revealing.

Official Kiev is not ready to act as required by the real national interests of Ukraine.

For the sake of the notorious "ideological purity", the Kiev authorities are ready to continue destroying their own economy.

From their point of view, it doesn't matter.

From their point of view, one thing is important: not to restore economic ties with Russia.

In Ukraine, the rapid process of de-industrialization continues, the destruction of the powerful economic base that was created during the Soviet era and could continue to function successfully if economic cooperation with Moscow continues.

The Ukrainian elite is watching this process, but does nothing to slow it down.

The question arises: why then should Russia do something?

Why did the President of the Russian Federation say that he agrees to satisfy the request of Viktor Medvedchuk to lift our economic sanctions on a number of Ukrainian enterprises?

Why did Viktor Medvedchuk himself make such a request, knowing that one can not count on the symmetrical reciprocal actions of the Kiev authorities?

Doesn't all this look like Don Quixote's battle with windmills?

For myself, I answer all these questions like this: no, it doesn't look like it.

Everything is being done correctly.

I have already mentioned my childhood fervent love for science fiction.

So, one of my favorite books was the novel by American writer Jack Finney "Between Two Times".

Its summary: relying solely on the power of his thoughts and the power of his desire, the main character is transported from New York in 1972 to New York in the 19th century.

Unfortunately (or fortunately), nothing like this happens in life.

The power of thought and the power of unwillingness will not help us move to another city or to another time.

The power of thought and the power of desire will not help us force the Ukrainian elite to abandon policies that are destructive for their own country.

But the worst and most dangerous thing we can do in the given circumstances is to recognize this state of affairs as the only possible form of reality.

If we do this, we will definitely lose.

The current economic (and not only) relations between Russia and Ukraine are absolutely abnormal and even unnatural.

This must be reminded again and again.

And we also need to remind you that if you have a desire, you can get rid of this abnormality quite easily.

Viktor Medvedchuk's initiatives and Moscow's positive reaction to his ideas work towards achieving this great and worthy goal.

We cannot be transported to a more prosperous parallel reality.

But we can try to transform the reality in which we live into a more prosperous one.

Thanks to those who are already trying to do this.

The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.