Putin must go

From March 10, 2010 to February 27, 2022, 153,380 signatures were collected

Appeal

Putin must go

Putin. Results. 10 years

Citizens of Russia! The realization that our country, by the will of the ruling elite, found itself in a historical impasse, prompted us to publish this appeal.

The handing over of almost unlimited power over Russia by the Family, who was looking for guarantees of its security, to a person with a dubious reputation, who did not differ in either talents or the necessary life and professional experience, predetermined the sharp degradation of all institutions of state administration.

The need for change is already being felt by a significant part of the ruling “elite”, it is enough to recall the sensational opus “Russia, Forward!”. However, the project of Medvedev’s “modernization” is clearly imitative and serves the sole purpose of renovating the scenery while preserving the nature of the authoritarian kleptocracy regime.

We affirm that the socio-political structure that is destroying Russia, which is now imposed on the citizens of our country, has an architect, curator and guardian all rolled into one. His name is Vladimir Putin.

We argue that no substantive reforms are possible in Russia today as long as Putin has real power in the country.

We argue that the dismantling of the Putin regime, the turning of the country into the mainstream of democratic development can only begin with the deprivation of Putin of all the levers of governing the state and society.

We argue that over the years of his rule, it was Putin who has become a symbol of a corrupt and unpredictable country ruthless towards its own citizens. A country in which citizens have no rights and are overwhelmingly poor. A country that has neither ideals nor a future.

If, as Kremlin propagandists like to repeat, Russia was on its knees during the Yeltsin era, then Putin and his guardsmen put her face in the mud.

In the dirt of contempt by the authorities not only the rights and freedoms of the individual, but also human life itself.

In the mud of false and helpless imitation of political and public institutions — from the bureaucratic phantom of United Russia to the Nashist Putin Youth.

Into the dirt of television obscurantism corrupting the minds and souls, turning one of the most educated peoples in the world into a soulless and immoral crowd.

Into the mud of total theft and corruption flowing down from the very pinnacle of Russian power. Without Putin’s many years of devotion in the Kremlin galleys, neither the financial empires of the billionaires of the inner circle — Abramovich, Timchenko, Kovalchuk, Rotenberg — could exist; nor parasitic state corporations of friends — these black holes of the Russian economy.

Having started his ascent from the epoch-making “wet in the toilet”, Putin has been using this universal “instrument” of governing the country for almost eleven years, which turned out to be especially effective in relations with political opponents and business competitors.

Any political, social or economic dissent is immediately suppressed: at best, by administrative restrictions, and often by riot police batons, criminal prosecution, physical violence, and even murder. Putin has proved in practice that he will destroy his personal opponents by all available means.

During his stay at the pinnacle of state power, Putin failed everything that could be failed. Pension and administrative reforms have been ruined, reforms of the army, special services, law enforcement and judicial systems have not been carried out, and domestic healthcare remains in a miserable state.

The decline of education and science, at the mercy of businessmen from the “Ozero” cooperative, has reached such a level that it is just right to include characters like Petrik and Gryzlov in the “titans” of Russian scientific thought.

A whole ten years have been missed when the boom in prices for hydrocarbon raw materials and metals could be used to modernize the country and structural transformations in the economy. That is why the blow of the world crisis turned out to be so ruthless for Russia, which is far from over for it.

Being the appointed successor to Yeltsin, Putin not only failed to correct the fatal mistakes made by his predecessor and put out the fire in the Caucasus, but managed by his policy to transform it into a new quality that could undermine the integrity of the country.

“Kursk”, “Nord-Ost”, Beslan, tens of thousands who died in the internecine second Caucasian war, thousands who lost their lives from man-made disasters, burned down in nursing homes not adapted for human habitation, dozens of journalists, human rights activists, political

opponents of the regime and simply victims of sadistic police lawlessness — all these are grave monuments of the time of Putin’s rule.

Basayev’s campaign in Dagestan, the bombings of houses in Moscow and Volgodonsk, and the “exercises” in Ryazan remain unsolved mysteries of the conception of the Putin regime.

Putin’s inability to think strategically has long surprised no one. It is not given to him to foresee what the world will be like in ten or fifteen years, what place Russia should and can take in this changing world. He is not able to assess the real threats and risks for the country, which means that he is not able to correctly plan the directions of possible movement, to identify potential allies and opponents.

Putin’s lack of understanding of the future is also evidenced by his maniacal passion for laying oil and gas pipes in all conceivable and unthinkable directions, initiating ambitious and costly projects (like the Sochi Olympics or a bridge to Russky Island), which are absolutely contraindicated in a country where a significant part of the population lives below the poverty line.

Having temporarily moved from the presidency to the prime minister’s apartments and left in the Kremlin an obedient locum tenens of the same “blood type” as him — the modern Simeon Bekbulatovich — Putin created an openly anti-constitutional construction of life-long governance of the country.

Obviously, Putin will never voluntarily relinquish power in Russia. His firm determination to rule for life is driven not so much by the thirst for power itself, but by the fear of responsibility for what he has done. It is humiliating for the Russian people, and deadly for the country, to have a ruler like Putin. Russia will no longer be able to carry this cross.

The Putin group, which is losing ground under its feet, can at any moment move from pinpoint repressions to mass ones. We warn law enforcement and law enforcement officials — do not go against your people, do not follow the criminal orders of corrupt officials when they send you to kill for Putin, Sechin, Deripaska:

Today, the nationwide demand at rallies from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad should be the call “Putin — get out!” Getting rid of Putinism is the first but essential step on the road to a new free Russia.

153,380 people signed for Putin’s resignation