Biography Sobchak Wikipedia

Quotes [edit] We began such changes in our political, economic, moral way of life, on which the fate of each of us depends. The main thing in my program is the struggle for the approval of genuine democracy, in which each official - from the chairman of the village council to Gorbachev inclusive - would really depend on those who elect him. We all - both the minister and the worker - need to learn how to live according to the law.

Unfortunately, today we do not know how. The second most important question is the need to prepare a new constitution, which should be clearly enshrined, in particular, the equal right of non -partisans and members of the CPSU to occupy any position. And finally, the formation of a new government. If I am elected, I will vote against the inclusion of current ministers of finance, land reclamation and water, light industry.

The first - for concealing the state budget deficit from the people, the second - for the useless instillation of billions of folk money into the land, the third - for the constant release of no need for anyone ... year, the election campaign of Sobchak [1] ... Perestroika caused political activity, civil dignity of people. They were convinced that their voices, will really matter.

We can safely say: the political self -awareness of Leningraders resolutely stepped from stagnant times into perestroika ... [1] ... power only then power, when it is respected by the people, when it relies on the will of the people. Today we have the will of the people ... [1] ...

August was a blow not only in the previously political and economic system, but, no matter how strange it seems to be a strange, according to the democratic movement. We made our plans from the calculation for several more years to be in opposition to the regime and were not ready for such a turn of events. But the regime collapsed almost without our help. To some extent, all the fragments covered us with all.

We had to pay on bills of August in October GO. And what's the point, that the bills were alien ... about the August coup [1] ... Events taking place in Moscow are an attempt to establish the national-communist dictatorship. They finally showed that Russia has no other way, as a conduct of democratic elections in the near future. The unprecedented cruelty that we observe in the course of conflicts in the Caucasus, in Central Asia, Yugoslavia can become a reality in Russia ...

[1] ... In this election campaign, Yavlinsky decided to check his chances of becoming the president of Russia. For these reasons, he rejected all the proposals about the joint performance in the elections. His position objectively caused great damage to the unity of democratic forces and contributed to their defeat in the December elections. Unfortunately, after the election of the association, it never happened.

Even the defeat did not teach anything our democratic leaders. For the sake of satisfying their even ephemeral ambitions, they are ready for everything. But fate gave us two more years of intense work to withdraw the country from the crisis and in parallel - no less intense preparation for future elections ... [1] ... Today, Russia is on the verge of a very difficult choice, a choice that will determine its fate for decades in advance.

And there are two dangers. The first danger is obvious - the communist revenge, and this is most talked about. The second - less obvious, but no less formidable - is the danger of an inconspicuous constant rebirth of a democratic state into a police officer; The state in which power structures rule. This danger already exists today; If democratic forces do not tell you about her in full voice, then we will encounter very serious manifestations in the near future, and today we are essentially faced with the manifestations of this danger ...

[1] ... setting out my program, I do not want to spend your time and strength on disputes about the past or on political aparts. Another thing is important - how tomorrow's Petersburg will be, what will be our life and the life of our loved ones. It is still far from prosperity, but is it possible to achieve it so quickly in a country that has experienced a shock economic crisis.

Ask yourself: what was your life? Yes, inflation, price increase, supply problems. For the first two years, we mainly plugged holes to ensure the life of the city. I still recall with a shudder on the situation of December, when I was forced to booked thirty million cans of canned food. And the city lived only on canned goods for a month. Therefore, it is easy to blame, reproach, promise - today the city already has other opportunities.

Tomorrow there will be even more. Petersburgers are sure that each pensioner will receive a pension in time, that at the height of the harsh winter in the houses there will be light and warm, that there will be funds for the repair of schools and kindergartens, residential buildings ... Stability is difficult, at the limit - but it has been achieved. My main task today is to continue what has begun.

You can spend many more years on the construction of another foundation or begin to improve the old one. But I believe that the foundation should not become an end in itself.The time has come to build the walls ... The election campaign of the year [1] ... Power spoils people. When I had to conquer the mountain peaks in my youth, there was always a lack of oxygen at the height and, if you delayed for a long time, there could be a mountain disease ...

[1] ... In the Parisian life, I was thrown out of the train of the usual life at full speed. There was simply no time to look around and prepare. Life continued, but already, as it were, in another dimension - every Parisian day brought a lot of wonderful and ordinary, unexpected meetings and impressions. However, I looked at all this, as if from the side, as if this was not happening to me, life turned so cool.

And now you are not managing it, but she ... [1] ... thinking about what is happening to me, I think about the insecurity of any resident of Russia before the arbitrariness of the state organs that arise in the atmosphere of lies, slander, indiscriminate accusations, bullying of the media. I do not want to survive my enemies what I and my loved ones had to experience over the past four years.

From a person with an impeccable reputation, I turned into a corrupt official, of a slandered and persecuted, accused of all mortal sins ... [1] ... This day has become the happiest for me in recent years. At the airport I was met by the mass of the people: happy and joyful faces, kind words and a sense of endless relief and peace-finally I am at home! And the whole Parisian life immediately left memory, as if all this was not with me, or I just had a fantastic dream.

The feverish, broken, everyday changing course of Russian life completely captures me. Only here, in Russia, I can breathe deeply, fight and experience the deepest satisfaction from each hour of life. Difficulties and trials are still waiting for me, but today I am full of strength and confidence that I will overcome everything and can still benefit my city, my country ...

Having returned to St. Petersburg after emigration, on June 12, [1] ... I continue to believe in the democratic future of Russia is another story that belongs to the future-twenty-first centuries ... from the book “Dozen knives in the back” [1] Quotes about Sobchak [edit] I prefer to work with an open hack. If I have an evil question, I say in advance that I want to talk on such and such a topic.

For example, on St. Petersburg television I spoke in Mobchak on the eve of the elections: “You know, Anatoly Alexandrovich, everyone in the city only says that you made your niece for free an apartment, and I cannot help but ask about it.” And I, having received this information in advance, knew how to broadcast, so as not to look like a fool in Europe, their brothers died out at the beginning of X, forming a class of specialists in demand by reality and Self Employed.

After the go and we have an intellectual - it’s stupid. However, intellectual sentiments are alive, and it is dangerous to underestimate them. It was the intelligentsia that fell off Sobchak: his internal, not always recognized idea was to rebuild the Phieste city, the first time Rome did this for the first time in Anatoly Sobchak, I led the “hour of the mayor” on the “5 channel”-but then the head of the channel Oleg Rudnov called me and apologized for Sobchak, and after the emigration he apologized and Sobchak himself.

Then I was kicked out of "Vesti"