New Russian Reign for ever?

The Oligarchical Capitalism with Vladimir The Unchangeable

  It is a continued debate about the future of Putinism in 2018-2024 - https://russiancounterterror.blogspot.ru/2018/03/.  

As a matter of fact, the 7^th of May 2018 could become a turning point in the Russian History: the inauguration of Putin, if any, is to show the end or the victory of Democracy and Free Market.

The New Russian Reign

Putin is a core of the Oligarchical Capitalism in Russia. The short answer to its ‘victory’ is NO! There is a strong need of Society in public-private partnerships as an effective means against the Kremlin’s stake on Oligarchical Capitalism with many faces and hidden money in off-shores.

Russia needs an alternative for serving public welfare and safety for foreign investments to come into regions of Russia after Putin, and ASAP.

How soon will it appear? The short answer will come on the 5^th of May at peaceful rallies of Alexei Navalny’s fans and his passive supporters.

The longer answer is in building bridges of Trust via Soft Power within Public-Private-State interactions in regions. There are so many ‘grey zones’ with Putinists in power. They cannot become a legal platform for such interactions, based on trillion dollars of Putinism abroad to be arrested and spent with mutual benefits on the basis of Trust in Russia!

There is a fake ‘shifting power structure’ focused on the Kremlin. All sanctions of the USA and other democratic nations are now targeting at the “Vertical Power.’ But they do not hit ‘Horizontal Power’ of ‘organized criminality’ that is far more dangerous for Democracy and Free Market.

         All election campaigns in Russia have not united fragments of opposition for many reasons. But the main one is that Oligarchical Capitalism (Putinism) destroys any legitimate and peaceful competition. The organized criminality in regions and ‘grey zones’ was pretty helpful.

         That is why the ‘Vertical Power’ of Putin’s vision is not the real cornerstone of his autocratic regime. The FSB, the successor to the KGB, operates at the heart of the ‘vertical system’ battling with other militarized agencies, which could become in future real potential enemies of Putin.

Recently destroyed mass illusions in fare elections feed new desires of revolts and disobedience in many regions. There is no surprise that local private ‘armies’ of regional ‘lords’ are still real fixes (skrepy) of Putinism.  

Private Bandit Armies for/against Putinism?

         Putin does not sense any fear of public protests (constantly disorganized by his controlled provocateurs and trolls in the Internet). He is, in fact, afraid of betrayal of the Police and other ‘Siloviki’ to suppress coming and existing public disobedience. That is why, long ago Putin started his demonstrative ‘defectors’ killings: ex-VIP Boris Nemsov, dozens of military opposition members and ex-‘comrades’ abroad (Litvinenko and the Salisbury case, March 2018).  

         The state budget is in hands of Putinists. And they eat away at the resources of a Nation like a cancer. Any resemblance of dynamic, healthy competition from economic, political and moral opposition is strangled by fake competition based solely on pseudo-business relationships with Putinists in Power and their vassals in Russia and abroad.

Small proprietors are considered to be feudal vassals or persons having mutual obligations to our local (regional) ‘lords’ or federal ‘monarch.’

When a shrinking private sector is entirely owned by the oligarchical elites, it means that ordinary citizens have got nothing from having a stake in the real (White) economy. Many are ready to increase their personal wealth ‘in shadow affairs’ out or under surveillance (‘krysha’) of ‘Siloviki’.

If there is no Siloviki domination in Russia, there will be no corruption and ‘Shadow Economy’ which gives huge incomes in petro-dollars to Oligarchical Capitalism and ‘peanuts’ to Small Proprietors as a façade of Free Market Economy.

The Nation’s wealth becomes more concentrated in fewer hands (1% of the population with the core of 130 super-rich families).

The ‘horizontal mass resistance’ waits from civilians, political or/and military opposition for a signal to ‘rise and fight’ to interrupt this disparity.

The one hundred twenty or so oligarchs in Putin’s Russia (under sanctions of Trump) do not get access to influential and powerful people in local/regional government. Their wealth is out of Russia! And in this case, they cannot play ‘philanthropically’ innocent role as billionaire political donors in Europe and the USA do for Democracy and Free Enterprise.

Russian oligarchs get access to nauseating amounts of wealth because of their ‘empathy’ with those most powerful in federal government. Men become oligarchs in Russia (there are no women oligarchs, by the way!) for they are ‘simply’ loyal to the only person in federal government who matters: Vladimir Putin-The Unchangeable.

         The Soft Power War between Civil Society and the Kremlin has been under way. With the Kremlin’s transition to kleptocracy, the oligarchs’ betrayal of their country is complete and evident.

Far from being the patriot he poses as, Putin is a parasite to suck his fortune out of ‘Mother Russia’ for ages. The 7^th of May does not seem to strengthen the Oligarchical Capitalism and its ‘Joker’ in ‘poker negotiation games’ with the USA and other democratic nations.

Do we deserve such Future? No way! So join rallies on 5^th of May!

         Vladimir Lukov  

P.S. You may see and listen to the video - https://www.facebook.com/vladimir.lukov.16/videos/1133379230138523/.