Here not bad article about our russian "opposition" . The hero of the bourgeoisie "In December 2003, remember, ended the Union of Russian bourgeois parties with the authority. "Apple" is not passed to the Duma, the PCA has not passed to the Duma. The voters didn't want them more in the Duma, or the authorities did not want to, we don't know, neither you, nor I. But may be have it taken place and that, and another. For some time that they were stunned. Only in February 2006 Garry Kasparov met with me and Kasyanov, and we created the coalition "the Other Russia". There was so much hope, remember, the congregation was spirit up, Kasparov became for three years of the hero of the bourgeoisie. At the same time also a hero to the West. However, by 2009, for a number of reasons (неуживчивость, arrogance, a reluctance to go to the physical risk and so on) he has lost its title of the hero of the bourgeoisie. to 2009 For Nemtsov first earning points were first appearance at the arc de Triomphe. But the genuine popularity he reached into the night on December 31, 2010, when he was detained at the arc de Triomphe and got 15 days of arrest. And for the West Nemtsov become a hero in fifteen days of January , push away from the throne the last hero Kasparov. Kasparov - out, Nemtsov - in. In those same years, made its first tentative steps in the political arena someone Alexei Navalny. He started out as a hero of the Internet, there was somewhere over seventy top bloggers (I have at the present day only 76th place), so Navalny was one of them. But the whole of 2010 and all the 2011 Nemtsov was still the undisputed hero of the bourgeoisie. And it was them, including the first half of December 2011. The culminating moment in the fight for the title of hero came in the first decade of December, when Navalny went to jail for fifteen days, and Nemtsov led, by agreement with the mayor's office, tens of thousands of people from strategically ideal Revolution square in the trap on the Bolotnaya square. But already on January 24, who came out with fifteen days Bulk became the hero of the bourgeoisie, but Nemtsov has ceased to be, though still retains a small, as shagreen, reputation. Navalny became the hero of the bourgeoisie. And the West replaced on the wall icon of Nemtsov the icon of Navalny. It is not for me to decide who the hero .If the West likes him , then let them. However, I was just wondering over the personality of Navalny and do not see in it the qualities. Well, fights against corruption, well, tall, broad-shouldered , the bourgeois ladies Balzac age from Yevgenia Albats to crazy-intense Latynina they are love him. Well they are love him, and then what? Navalny make the policy? Unequivocally, no. He is not the leader of the political organization, he is not a political activist organization, it has no political project, except that if the project considered a thirst for fair elections. (We're all for fair elections, by the way...) In his LJ, I find tedious documents, just miles and miles of proving that our state companies dishonest. For me it is not a sensation, I know. In a swoon me this fall will not make. That writes personally Navalny and what he says, I take it as absolutely banal phrases, sometimes even childish stupid, well, it is clear that the authorities must be honest and good, green trees, and each minority shareholder of " decent life ". In short, in my opinion, Navalny - Illustrious nobody. And now the Navalny, which surrounds the irrational adoration of the bourgeois class, and now, yesterday we knew that Navalny was took in the Board of Directors of " quasi-governmental " campaign "Aeroflot". Great! Arises, however, a lot of questions. If they took him,it's mean they are not afraid to take someone else, not are afraid to lose "Aeroflot" , their seats in Aeroflot, their money in Aeroflot, its shares. They are Not afraid to repeat the fate of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Fear not, may be, because that has already split the ruling class? may be. And Navalny, probably, a protege of the breakaway half new? It is possible. But, they say to me, he is haunted by the Investigative Committee for the events of may 6, 2012. He had a search warrant, he was summoned to the interrogation, the accused in the case were forced to give testimony against him. Isn't that so? Everything is so. But maybe it's the other half of the ruling elite, which tries to pursue it? May be. But perhaps it is the left hand does not know what the right hand of the power of the times we live in, before it gained independence. And? I, personally, I repeat, nothing remarkable in Aleksei Навальный (Navalny) do not see. I attribute its popularity to the phenomena of social psychosis, in the same category as the adoration of the famous tenors, the players, and TV. Not without reason is close to Navalny the popularity of Leonid Parfenov, and competes with him Ksenia Sobchak. Well, okay, all right, have his portrait and his name, but should not call him a politician, you insult my aesthetic sense." Eduard Limonov http://www.microsofttranslator.com/...//www.rosbalt.ru/blogs/2012/06/26/997038.html http://www.rosbalt.ru/blogs/2012/06/26/997038.html
Some explanations for the translation of article ^. First of all the author of the article is Eduard Limonov - tired oppositioner . In second this is lame machine translation .I left the meaning of machine translation as is. For Example the "Apple" is the Russian party of liberals, and colourful Apple is very suitable for the Russian party " Yabloko". PCA sounds strange but fits well to SPS which means " Soyuz Pravich Sil " that is mean nothing . Surname Навальный (Navalny) translated as Bulk. Just for lulz.
