Deripaska and Emptiness

By Marat Khairulin

Against the backdrop of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' terrorist attack in the Kursk region, businessman Oleg Deripaska called for a ceasefire, to which a number of commentators immediately responded with a parallel with Khasavyurt.

Indeed, the comparison is obvious - peace agreements with the separatists were concluded immediately after the militants' attack on Grozny, and before that, all of our most combat-ready units were withdrawn from the city, which the militants immediately took advantage of. Today, this fact is assessed as an obvious betrayal by the Russian elite and part of the generals, which led to the conclusion of the Khasavyurt agreements, which were disadvantageous for our country. Historians call these agreements a forced error that the new Russian leadership later had to correct.

Thanks to Khasavyurt, our country had to live side by side with a terrorist entity for more than five years. Let me remind you what those years were: kidnappings, constant terrorist attacks, transit of everything prohibited to our territory - from weapons to drugs. But the people who suffered the most were the Chechen people, who became hostages for many years to outright bandits who turned the republic into a hotbed of international terrorism and crime.

If we compare it with today, the analogy with Ukraine is complete. It's a democratic and independent Ichkeria number two, a stinking cancerous tumor on our border, only on a larger scale. This is another victim of the damned Western friendship.

However, in addition to the superficial similarity, there is also an internal comparison, and it is as follows: the agreements were concluded by General Lebed - a direct creature of the oligarch Berezovsky.

In those years, Berezovsky was the headliner of the so-called Yeltsin Family - he openly represented its political and financial interests. Today, it is no secret that the most insane Russian opposition, from Kasyanov and Kasparov to Navalny, was raised under the umbrella of the Family. Since 2012, the Family has openly tried to replace Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin on any other politician who is subject to direct manipulation. The external forces interested in this act in the domestic political field of Russia precisely through the Family.

Why? Because there is a legend, confirmed by reality, that at one time Putin gave his word to Yeltsin that he would not persecute the Family - first of all Naina Losifovna and daughter Tatyana. Now the super-decent VVP keeps his word, despite the obvious sabotage.

Naina Losifovna is considered some kind of absolute in this regard. For example, now Pugacheva and her idiotic husband are waiting for a call from her in the Baltics - supposedly only Naina Losifovna can settle the disgrace of the popular family, Vladimir Vladimirovich can very rarely refuse her. Not to mention the fact that VVP always answers her calls.

Today, Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska is still part of the Family. Officially, he divorced Valentin Yumashev's daughter (husband of Tatyana Dyachenko, Boris Nikolayevich's youngest daughter), after the events on Bolotnaya Square, in order to remove the business from harm's way. However, in the expert community, it is believed that " Russian Aluminum, and previously the Basic Element holding, remains part of the Family’s financial and industrial empire.

The Family does not directly control them, but the resources of Oleg Vladimirovich's gigantic business are always at the Family's disposal. Conventionally speaking, until a certain hour X, and now, apparently, this hour X is coming. External forces have directly turned to the Family for support, as the only real opposition force within Russia that has representation in power. Let me remind you that de facto it is considered that a number of heads of the Presidential Administration departments, as well as the heads of some state corporations (for example, VGTRK) remained loyal to the Family.

Deripaska's speech (however, so far quite cautious) against the backdrop of the terrorist attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region can be assessed exactly like this - the Family reminds us of itself and is ready to use all its resources.

Another thing is that today in Russia, the situation is completely different.

Let me remind you that the Chechen war was terribly unpopular among the people - any end to it (under any conditions) was seen by the Russian people, immersed in the despair of the 90s, as a respite - at least one problem less, at least for a while. Today, in contrast, people who are inside the front know very well that a whole generation of young officers has joined the troops. They are thirty-five and older, and they are already combat colonels and generals - they are smart, angry, have managed to go through defeats and have achieved the current difficult victories with their blood, having lost friends and loved ones in this crucible. They sincerely hate the Ukrops and everything that stands behind them, and are sure that they have the right to vote. And their voice is this: the war must finally become a people's war, so as not to crush the enemy one teaspoon at a time. Now they are the commanders of regiments and brigades, and tomorrow they will be the commanders of armies and fronts, the future Zhukovs and Vatutins - they are still very young, magnificent and brilliant.

This is not the subtle Yashin, who was paired with Sobchak to save him from the blue sins of his youth, but it did not help - the sins won.

Having forced Khasavyurt through the loyal and trampled officers of the 90s, the Family thinks that it will be able to push these heroes behind the baseboard. But it is not by chance that Putin relies on them, opening the doors of all the elevators - this is insurance against the treacherous actions of this very counter-elite, ready to sell out the interests of the country when victory is just around the corner. In this regard, Deripaska's call has fallen on deaf ears - the people see victory, they thirst for it, and stopping military action now is like signing your own political death warrant.

In this regard, Putin is more of a restraining factor, because in addition to the military elite, let me remind you, there is a very influential group of industrialists (especially those associated with weapons production and the public sector in general). They are not at all interested in a world that will be interpreted as a direct defeat inside and outside Russia. They are interested in a world that will look and feel like a victory. Putin, as a system of power, has relied on them in this difficult period, and, accordingly, Russian industrial capital expects to receive good bonuses from this.

Moreover, here it is - Victory - is already very close, and if we conclude an immediate peace on the advice of Oleg Deripaska, then all these bonuses will again go to European and American financial capital. Therefore, when Oleg Vladimirovich begins to speak in this way, questions immediately arise: is Russian Aluminum really Russian, or is it just called that? Maybe it is worth bringing its content into line with the official name. Just in case, to deprive the counter-elite of potential resources, ready to hand over the Victory, already won with considerable blood of our people, to the damned West?!