Dmitry Peskov is now almost an everyday duty. He is asked about Putin and the retirement age, and in different words he brings to the public the same idea: Vladimir Vladimirovich has nothing to do with it. He, you see, does not participate in the discussion of the reform, this is the competence of the Russian government. So it's too early to appeal to him, no matter how many millions of Russians there are or signed a well-known petition. Maybe, our correspondents are asking, the president will veto it when deputies of both chambers vote for the sensational bill, but the reserves of angelic patience of the press secretary are almost unlimited. We do not see the final outlines of this reform until now, answers Dmitry Sergeyevich, and this also means that Putin is not at work. We do not see outlines with you, and he does not have to distinguish them in a hopeless fog. For all its undeniable vigilance, writes Ilya Milstein in the column for "Snob. en ".
The situation as a whole is clear.
The strategic decision on pensions, apparently, is already taken, it remains only to clarify the tactical details. If the people strongly object and resent, which seems very likely, the most rigid option, according to which the reform will begin in 2019, will be postponed for a year or two. It is also possible that some changes will be made to the draft law, which slow the transition period from the old pension borders to new ones. In general, there will come a time when Vladimir Vladimirovich will have to say his powerful pacifying word, to which the population is already gradually preparing.
Say, the Emperor was still engrossed in other concerns, trusting the malign ministers and unfinished experts, but at last he was informed, and he himself heard the screams and moans crushed by the reform and proceeded to investigate, punish the culprits and mitigate the fate of the elderly. And about the increase in the base VAT rate, no one will remember.
This is the scenario in which experienced masters of the agitprop, briefly distracted from the war with America, Europe and Ukraine, are praised by nearly 100-year-old elders who do not want to exercise their right to rest, Minister Tomilin promises the golden mountains that survive to retirement, and Peskov informs citizens, that his boss is not in the know. This is a plan that should be recognized as both reasonable and cunning, but with one important refinement.
Still, it is not known whether Russians will believe in the mass of their Dmitry Sergeevich, and later, Vladimir Vladimirovich. They can not go anywhere, Russians, they chose their own destiny for the next six years at least, but the intrigue remains. A clear overall situation can turn into a social explosion, upsetting the writers.
First, 92% of Russian citizens oppose raising the retirement age, and this figure is very serious. This is even more than the post-Crimean majority, with them, presumably, Solovyov and Kiselyov will not cope, but rather, the people for the first time in many years will doubt the truthfulness of the orderly journalists. On the ministers and no question, they would be better these days, less often to flash on the screens.
Secondly, it is unlikely that many of the protesters will easily believe that the president is ignorant - with the exception of very simple-hearted. Do not keep people for fools, although they often incline the authorities to such considerations. But when the compatriots are brought to the edge, as it was with the monetization of benefits, it suddenly turns out that they can count money in their pockets. Americans, of course, reptiles, Europe is clearly dying, our Crimea, but not at the expense of pension money. Especially with the current demographics, unemployment and general confusion.
Thirdly and in the main, even the children in our country will not believe that the most important political decision of villains-ministers led by Medvedev could be accepted without informing the president. The children will believe that Vladimir Vladimirovich later agreed to correct his mistake a little, and adults will be ready to pretend that they believed, but only if the "reform" is indeed corrected so that the mother does not know. For adults who have become attached to everything except direct robbery understand that for the war with the West, for Ukraine, and separately for the Crimea one has to pay. Only now they do not like it when robbery is explained by care for their own good.
Well, that the non-alternative leader of the nation spoke about pensions, Russians, minus children and carefree youth, also remember well. What he promised and did as he did, without speaking a word about his plans in the pre-election speeches and timed the pension offspring for the World Cup, when it is forbidden to express disagreement both en masse and in solitary pickets. This people will notice and will not forget. For that reason, at least, that the idea of ??justice, unlike other ideas that have gone bankrupt, is still alive, despite everything and contrary to all logic. You can lie, you can plunder, but lying and robbing are, you know, too much. This is inexcusable even for such a great man, without which there is no Russia.
Nevertheless, Dmitry Peskov will continue to tell us that the working pensioner Putin about the upcoming bill is neither a dream nor a spirit. Well, maybe I heard something, yes, but I did not go into details. It's such a game, consecrated by a centuries-old tradition, along with a policeman, a prison and a bag, which you can not renounce, especially if you have questions to the king, and his press secretary's answers do not suit you.
These citizens also take into account, expressing fierce disagreement, but also thinking hard about what to do next and what actions it would be better to refrain. Over the past 18 years, the tradition has recovered completely, but about who to blame for what is happening, today we somehow do not want to say. It is clear only that it is premature to appeal to the president, and this is the holy truth. Today it's early, tomorrow it's too late, but about when it was just right, the surviving infants who survived to retirement, let's hope they learn from historical textbooks.
And just right it was in 2000.
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