12:06 PM 2/19/2020 - Gone are the days of Surkov - "The Surok", "The Groundhog"; here are coming the days of Kozak - "The Goat Manager", by the same nickname analogy. Happy management, Mr. Kozak: everything and everyone needed this momentous change, it seems, feels, and looks like...
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M.N.: Gone are the days of Surkov - "The Surok", "The Groundhog"; here are coming the days of Kozak - "The Goat Manager", by the same nickname analogy. Happy management, Mr. Kozak: everything and everyone needed this momentous change, it seems, feels, and looks like...
And Mr. Kozak does look like a good, professional, naturally born Manager and The Guardian.
Once again, Putin proved himself to be the adept, flexible, and disciplined master politician, and those behind him and behind the scenes, whoever they are, proved that they occupy these mysterious positions quite rightly.
I suspect strongly, that the some other astute players from the various other camps do deserve their credits also, and a good portion of them. Happy retirement, Slavik! Enjoy it! It is well deserved. Keep in touch, though, as I said earlier: maybe you will still need some consultations on your memoirs, with regard to style and punctuation.
Methinks, we'll start seeing some other notable retirements, as the chain events; and soon. We'll live, we'll see.
It certainly feels like the end of the certain historical period, relatively short, about 15-20 years maybe, but the distinct one. It would be tempting to call it "Surkovschina", as the part of "Putinovschina", akin to "Bironovschina", for example; but the problem is that we still lack the sufficient knowledge of the historical facts and their understandings, in order to put some legitimate meaning into these terms.
Methinks also, that it was the Surkov's own decision to leave the Government and the Power Structures, as he publicized his plans in advance, by the end of January 2020. Part of the reasons for this decision, and probably, rather the significant part, was that he was unmasked as the chief of the Putin's Personal Intelligence Service, or one of them, and he could not continue to perform in this capacity efficiently, and if he did, it would be at rather the high risk to him personally. And he does love himself and his family. Therefore, it was the rational and the professional decision to relinquish these duties. I hope, that we will read his memoirs at some point, and that they will be truthful.
As the biographical point of interest, and almost in parenthesis, I will remind the readers that Surkov is of the mixed ethnic origin: half Russian or Russian-Jewish on his mother's side, and half Chechen (or ultimately with some possible Mountain Jewish roots) on his father's side. Not that it matters much, but I wonder what role this mixed descent played in his rich, powerfully artistic, and still puzzling and enigmatic, and not really, completely understood nature as the person, as the personality, and as the political personality, who managed to leave some trace or legacy, only if the questionable and the controversial one, in the history of the Modern Russia.
12:06 PM 2/19/2020
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The change of the Guardians
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, for the news is confirmed: Vladislav Surkov, once Putin’s “grey cardinal,” not so much his political technologist as political theatrician, is gone.
It was perhaps a bitter irony that the elegantly prolix Surkov was dismissed on 18 February with one of the briefest and bluntest of edicts, a two-line epitaph that simply decreed:
“1. To dismiss Surkov Vladislav Yuryevich from the post of Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation.
“2. This Decree shall enter into force on the day of its signing.”
Of course, Surkov may be back — he has engineered an at least partial resurrection before.
However, with even those close to him hinting that he himself walked out, over the appointment of Dmitry Kozak as Donbas proconsul-in-chief, it may well be that his lives are spent. After all, Putin values the “good soldier” who uncomplainingly accepts a tough fate.
This may lead to movement on the Donbass, although so far the movement has largely been of trigger fingers.
But it likely also says something about Putinism, making the final end of its fluid, postmodern, imaginative, too-clever-by-half aspects, all of which were inextricably and unavoidably connected with Surkov.
This was, after all, the man who would gladly sing the praises of American rapper Tupac Shakur and beat poet Allen Ginsberg, even when official tastes were swinging back to a nationalist canon of home-grown patriots and Great Patriotic War epics. The political operator who invented the term “Sovereign Democracy,” in the full knowledge that it meant nothing but sounded like much. The theatre director who treated political parties and leaders as actors on a set of his own devising.
His was the early Putinism, when the anarchy of the 1990s were still energizing the new state-building campaign, a time when, in Peter Pomerantsev’s words, “nothing is true but everything is possible.”
In Rashomon Russia, Putin could mirror everyone’s hopes and dreams, and breathless hype could seem to replace sober debate. Surkov was able to make the state, in the words of the novel Almost Zero (that he seems to have written under the pseudonym Natan Dubovitsky), “at any moment ready to perform tragedy, or pastoral, or something of ambiguity.”
Surkov was the impresario of early Putinism, his political dramaturgiya fuelled by a buoyant economy and a public mood willing to be dazzled and distracted while they enjoyed an unprecedented dolce vita.
He was also perennially too smart for his own good, or not quite as smart as he thought, depending on to whom you spoke.
After all, what was there beyond the showmanship, the dangerous promise of always being able to pull yet another white rabbit out of his top hat?
United Russia, the very embodiment of sovereign democracy, is tanking, its brand so tarnished that its candidates in last year’s Moscow council elections preferred to stand under the guise of independents. The Donbas pseudo-states turned out both impossible to control with his brand of promise, threat and cajolery, and also impossible to sell as real entities, let alone victims of Ukrainian prejudice, to a skeptical and hostile West.
Reportedly, he was also one of the men who sold that raging bull Ramzan Kadyrov to Putin, and in the process saddled Russia with a virtually autonomous bandit kingdom that it has to bankroll.
This was, perhaps, the essence of Surkovism. He was the front man, the circus barker who could promise the greatest show on Earth, but not himself deliver it. For that he depended on the grey men behind him, the very managers and administrators he implicitly patronised. Alone, he was all Potemkin, no battleships.
So perhaps it is not that he failed, but that the Kremlin failed him.
It never truly engaged with the fictional democratic structures it had created, allowing them to atrophy into embarrassing irrelevance. It failed ever to make a definite decision on just what it wanted to do with the Donbas, preferring to put its faith in a Ukrainian capitulation always just around the corner. It never appreciated that virtual politics needed some real politics behind it.
Surkov’s time is over, though. Late Putinism is about a different, safer kind of spectacle. It is about Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Great Patriotic War cavalcades, and a more discreet kind of embezzlement for a more discreet kind of VIP. The appointment of Kozak, the tried-and-tested trouble-shooter, as his replacement in the Donbas is a particular signal of this preference for managerialism.
Policy increasingly becomes driven by long-term security, for the Putin and for his clan, in a time of uncertainty. The godfather may well still push forward grand designs, such as his metrics-driven National Projects and his constitutional revisions, but these are essentially conservative measures, attempts to hold back the crimson tide of history rather than to make it.
It is the retrenchment of the regime into sensible, grey, technocracy; the age of the impresario and the illusionist is over, the kleptocrat and the KPIocrat have won.
And yet, as he looks at the metropolis’s bright city lights through the rear window, Surkov can perhaps reflect that, just as his infamous manifesto-article of last year tried to claim that “Putinism” held the “political algorithm” that was defining modern times, in fact the experience of the West may suggest it is actually “Surkovism,” fantasy politics, that is “the ideology of the future.”
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