Today Moscow is holding four election events. Supporters of Putin will march on the Frunzenskaya Embankment and will hold a meeting at the Luzhniki Stadium. Supporters of Zyuganov will occupy Teatralnaya Square; supporters of Zhirinovsky – Pushkinskaya Square. The leader of the movement “Essence of Time”, political scientist Sergey Kurginyan, got a space near the All-Russian Exhibition Center. “It will be not a simple “anti-orange” meeting. We will explain there why we are “opponents of everything in the world”, the current authorities and their course; we will demonstrate how we see the next development of events,” Kurginyan said about his meeting.
According to him, the meeting at the Poklonnaya Gora gathered a wide coalition with one aim – to show a great quantity of supporters of “anti-orange” forces. However, it is impossible to provide a policy, considering the number of participants in this or that meeting only. Various forces were gathered at Poklonnaya Gora – supporters of Putin, and those who could be called Putin’s supporters nominally, as well as those who are opponents of the current political course. “At the opening of that meeting I said that I’m an opponent of Putin’s policy, I’m for “USSR 2.0,” for “the red project” and so on; but everything was done for it not to be heard,” Kurgonyan complained.
Kurginyan doubts whether developents in Russia will develop peacefully after March 4th. “Leonid Parfenov and myself discussed the agreement on the conditions, according to which we will admit the elections to be fair. Even though we are very different people, we managed to agree completely. I hope this will fulfil the main aim: for Moscow not to turn into Dushanbe 1992 after March 4th. It is a very difficult task, as we know that there are forces, which long for such kind of “turning.”
Essence of Time will do its best to protect stability and peace. It could be said that it is civil force for peace. Kurginyan wants “to provide the synthesis of the patriotic nationalist (of course, in the educated and civilized sense of the word) and communist movements. It is called “communo-patriotism.” For a long time the KPRF has been moving in this direction. Now it is carrying out a manoeuvre on establishing “communo-orangism” or “communo-liberalism...” Of course, every politician and party has the right to choose a course, and I respect the choice, but the “communo-patriotic” niche couldn’t be empty in Russia. I think the future of Russia is in the synthesis of communist and educated patriotic ideas. I don’t want Russia to lose its future because someone has decided to turn “communo-patriotism” into “communo-liberalism”: we respect their position, but we have our own.”
“The 20 years spent on “entering Europe,” failed. It doesn’t matter who pushed Russia there – Yeltsin, Gorbachev, Putin – it is done. This is the first fundamental contradiction between our position and the authorities’ course. There are five of them. I don’t accept the military reforms of Serdyukov; I don’t accept the reforms in the system of education by Fursenko; I don’t accept the industrial policy; I don’t accept entry to the WTO; I don’t accept juvenile justice; I don’t accept the commercialization of culture; and I don’t want to betray my values, ad was done by Yeltsin. I would never fight against the country, against the government. Political opponents and political enemies should be separated,” Kurginyan said.
