“it’s Dangerous to get ahead of myself, but it is impossible to sit idly by, avoiding responsibility,” — appearing on television screens across the country Vladimir Putin with the utmost frankness told the citizens to what kind of dilemma he now found himself. To hasten the return of Russia to its normal mode of operation? Not an option. To pay for this haste will have a new surge of the epidemic. Leave it as is? Also not an option. Nor the psyche of the inhabitants of the country nor its economy will not survive. Again frankly admitted the GDP, and himself, and the whole of Russia must now “pass between Scylla and Charybdis”. Software presidential speech of may 11, can be considered the first stage of this dangerous, political voyage.
GDP has done the most to improve people’s mood after continuing from the end of March “unscheduled holiday”. For families with children promised “ice cream”: the payment of ten thousand rubles for each child. Entrepreneurs preferential loans with the possibility of full cancellation in the event of failure by reducing the number of employees. Self-employed — a return of the taxes paid for last year. “The icing on the cake” was the official cancellation of the hateful “output”. But Putin is not trying to pretend that major challenges and, let’s call a spade a spade, the main suffering is over. Nationwide the weekend is over, but the epidemic there. Moreover, in some sense, we now have swapped places with France, Italy and Spain, not to mention China.
Weeks and months ago my horror and sympathy watched what was happening, while staying in the comparative safety: “the ninth wave” and the us had not yet reached. Now this “ninth wave” we have caught or will soon catch up. And countries that were previously the epicenter of the crisis, begin the slow process of recovery. Openly admit these very sad realities of Putin, of course, could not. The art of politics lies in including the ability to pack a very bitter pill in a nice package and still no one can tell a lie. GDP is accurately managed.
the President has made it clear to the citizens: their “holiday torture” was not in vain. During the forced outage of the national economy, the health system has become much more prepared to fight the virus: she “was able to significantly increase the margin of safety.” The good news? Definitely. This good news was followed by even more good: the “distribution of elephants” particularly affected strata of society. About “universal guaranteed income” for all citizens of the Russian Federation (or, to put it simply, on a continuous distribution of money to everyone) it is, of course, was not. However, about the payments, which it still is, part of the President’s speech wasa fairly long and detailed. GDP understands that the citizens are yearning for reasons to be optimistic. And for similar reasons it is necessary to give — even if in reality these occasions is by and large not.
Introduced due to a virus quarantine restrictions are not going anywhere. De facto changed the official name of these restrictions. Add to this the still and solemn promise that they, of course, be removed, but very “slowly, and depending on each specific region.” Sleight of hand? Of course. But I categorically refuse to criticize Vladimir Putin. The President is forced to play the cards he has. I hate to admit it, but the cards that are “on hand” at the early stages, objectively stronger.
