The fall in Putin’s ratings and what does Zyuganov and Instagram member Bonya have to do with it.
For five weeks in a row, Russian sociologists have been talking about a drop in Putin's ratings and even say that he is showing the worst results in the last decade. Let's figure out where this courage comes from and what all this leads to?
- When our media write about the catastrophic drop in Putin’s ratings from 72% to 68%, I would simply ask everyone to turn their heads: 68% is incredibly high. And there is definitely no catastrophe here. Now I don’t have any fresh sociology of my own, but I feel like Putin’s real rating is probably 7-8% lower than what was declared. And this is also still very far from a disaster.
- However, the persistence of Russian government sociologists in publishing all this data suggests that something is wrong here. My version boils down to the fact that a behind-the-scenes war has begun in the Kremlin to reduce the powers of Kiriyenko as the head of domestic policy. And Putin’s ratings are his direct responsibility.
- Let me remind you that three things became the catalyst for the deterioration in ratings: the deterioration of life, the lack of progress in ending the war, and the restriction of the Internet amid the closure of Telegram. And it was Telegram that became the trigger for what I call the kitchen revolution. In response to the discontent of the masses, about a week ago, the authorities decided to slow down the closure of Telegram. And instead of stopping the shutdown of the messenger without any comments, the Kremlin’s internal political bloc decided to play a super stupid two-way trick on the theme “good tsar – bad boyars.” In response to an 18-minute speech by Instagrammer Boni, Peskov miraculously told the Russian people in the style of Yanukovych: “I will hear everyone.” Why the Kremlin’s internal political bloc proposed to react in this way remains a mystery. But Boni’s speech, which by that time had been watched by 4 million viewers, became perhaps the main political event in the Russian Federation. And Kiriyenko, it seems, set himself up.
- Heavy artillery was launched against Boni (read Kiriyenko). Chairman of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Zyuganov, first from the rostrum of the Duma, and then in an interview with Vesti, said that you need to listen not to some Bon, but to ordinary people, otherwise 1917 will repeat itself (it’s actually funny when the communists scare with the October coup). Along the way, Zyuganov also toured the economic bloc of the government.
- In parallel with this, a “personnel bacchanalia” began in the Russian space, when some experts transferred Volodin to Matvienko’s chair and took away part of Kiriyenko’s powers in favor of Volodin. The Minister of Economy was dismissed and so on. Simply put, all these events returned the media to behind-the-scenes games of lobbying for personnel changes that everyone expects after the State Duma elections.
- In short, a process has begun in Russia of trying to promote the interests of certain groups in the media on the eve of possible personnel changes. And, in this regard, it may seem to many that almost a revolution is taking place. In fact, for now this is just an attempt to play a behind-the-scenes game. It’s just that this process, unexpectedly for many, crawled into the media space. And the reason for this was the Kremlin’s mistake with Bonya.
- Finally, you need to pay attention to a very important point. The statements of Boni, Zyuganov and other lesser-known characters are in no way statements against Putin. And this is not about war at all. This is an appeal to Putin: pay attention to us and put our people in certain positions.
- Could this all get out of control? So far the probability is extremely low. But no one counted on mistakes like Boni’s a week ago.
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Vadim Denisenko / Facebook
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