Моя новая статья по-английски
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/26/the-snow-fronde/
Снежная Фронда
...Путин может себя доказать делами, а не словами. Если полетят головы ненавистных и коррумпированных чиновников (включая г-на Анатолия Чубайса), если офшорные компании будут вынуждены указать своих подлинных владельцев и начнут платить налоги, если природные ресурсы будут национализированы - народ сочтет, что Путина стоит защищать. Но пока, хотя Снежная Фронда (они же гондонные революционеры) мало известны за пределами Москвы, народ в целом пассивно примет падение Путина, как он пассивно принял падение царя, и Горбачева, или, как утверждал Пушкин в Борисе Годунове (сейчас превращенном в великолепный фильм) - народ смирится.
Some of the Putin regime’s defences, namely the United Russia party and its youth movements, appear weak. The new structure, the Popular Front, is still untried. People do not know how serious Putin is about power. Putin’s true test will be in deeds, not words. If the heads of the hated and allegedly corrupt officials (including Anatoly Chubais) were to roll, if the offshore companies were to be forced to reveal its real owners and pay taxes, if resources were taken away from the oligarchs and re-nationalised, people would feel they have a reason to defend Putin. As things now stand, though the Snow Fronde (aka “condom revolutionaries”) are not well known outside of Moscow, people in general would passively accept the fall of Putin, just as they previously accepted the fall of the Tsar and of Gorbachev, or indeed, as Alexander Pushkin makes the point in his Boris Godunov (now made into an excellent film), as they typically acquiesce to the fall of any ruler.
Снежная Фронда
...Путин может себя доказать делами, а не словами. Если полетят головы ненавистных и коррумпированных чиновников (включая г-на Анатолия Чубайса), если офшорные компании будут вынуждены указать своих подлинных владельцев и начнут платить налоги, если природные ресурсы будут национализированы - народ сочтет, что Путина стоит защищать. Но пока, хотя Снежная Фронда (они же гондонные революционеры) мало известны за пределами Москвы, народ в целом пассивно примет падение Путина, как он пассивно принял падение царя, и Горбачева, или, как утверждал Пушкин в Борисе Годунове (сейчас превращенном в великолепный фильм) - народ смирится.
Some of the Putin regime’s defences, namely the United Russia party and its youth movements, appear weak. The new structure, the Popular Front, is still untried. People do not know how serious Putin is about power. Putin’s true test will be in deeds, not words. If the heads of the hated and allegedly corrupt officials (including Anatoly Chubais) were to roll, if the offshore companies were to be forced to reveal its real owners and pay taxes, if resources were taken away from the oligarchs and re-nationalised, people would feel they have a reason to defend Putin. As things now stand, though the Snow Fronde (aka “condom revolutionaries”) are not well known outside of Moscow, people in general would passively accept the fall of Putin, just as they previously accepted the fall of the Tsar and of Gorbachev, or indeed, as Alexander Pushkin makes the point in his Boris Godunov (now made into an excellent film), as they typically acquiesce to the fall of any ruler.