Aslan Oskanov

8-12-11

Aslan Oskanov is a student of the state administration course, at Moscow University, MGU, and he has been an agent of a counterterrorism department of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies.

Why did you choose a course of studies which will take you to become a state functionary?

 I want to have the possibility to make the people’s life better, working in defending their rights and freedoms. That’s what I learn at the university. In particular, I’m interested in what concerns the fight against corruption.

Those are the same goals of people demonstrating in Moscow in these days. Why are you not supporting them?

Because I think these protest won’t led to nothing positive. The opposition leaders are using the government as a scapegoat, encouraging people’s anger and fear. People are not correctly informed about the real state of our economy and society and believe all the lies said to them. Now our political situation is not positive, it’s true, but it’s due to the worldwide crisis. Before the crisis our GDP ran at enviable growth rates. In all the occidental world crisis bet strong and the peoples attacked their governments, sometimes they were right, sometimes not. I did not go to demonstrations, and I won’t: I could do it if I would see a little sign of utility in doing it, but I can’t see it. I think is more useful to build and take on ourselves responsibilities, rather than destroy and criticize.

So, how do you comment the unfair elections? People don’t have the right to be angry for this?

Each nation has its lacks, this is one of ours. Of course I’m not glad about unfair elections, but the solution, as I said, is not to shout in the streets. If actually there are evidences of abuses, then is more useful to make a regular police report and take the matter to the tribunals. I don’t like when an opposition political program is based on the protest against problems that you could solve in a legal way.

However I’m astonished that despite all Edinaja Rossija (United Russia) took so few votes in respect to the last elections.

And what do you think about the repression of these days?

Putin governs in a severe way because he wants peace. He forbids the protests because he wants to avoid instability. The majority of these thousands people who demonstrate doesn’t know anything of the real situation in our nation and they let the opposition chief to lead them. The only result they will obtain is to damage the nation, repeating what we saw in Ukraine years ago: now in Ukraine they have only chaos and poverty, and people now supports back politicians they protested against during the orange revolution. Ukraine became a nation that in Europe is at the last place in many classifications concerning socioeconomic matters, at least for a 70 parameters. I don’t think it would be positive for Russia to be in a similar situation.

Then you support the Putin government?

Of course! From the moment he is in charge society and economy are developing, there’s no comparison with the precedent period, when El’cin was, when there was only crime and poverty.  During his government were approved several business develop programs, for small either for big business, and were born also ideas which make institutions closer to the citizens, like an internet site in which everyone can participate in discussing the law project that will be shown in the parliament.

Opposition accuses the government functionaries to be corrupt, but where are the evidences? Where are the police reports? The government is also accused to organize any complot, while I think the complots are organized by opposition leaders, who after will make propaganda on it.

But what about the decisions on police and public order? People say it’s repression.

Police did exactly what was right to do. The problem is that if a demonstration is not authorized, the sole participation is a law infringement. Policeman can’t stay and look while somebody infringes the law. Of course, some policemen exaggerates, but it’s not so difficult to make a report against an agent, above all when everything during the demonstrations is shot by cameras.