Failed to become a negotiator: why Natalya Poklonskaya leaves the Duma and big politics

As you know, State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya reacted with irony to the new uniform of the Ukrainian national football team, which depicts the outline of this country, including Crimea. Poklonskaya suggested that Ukrainian footballers hold a match in a new uniform in Crimea, adding that "there is such a sign: if you encroach on the Crimean people, you will lose yours." Experts sadly state that, most likely, this was the last speech of the deputy Poklonskaya, who leaves public politics: she has already refused to participate in the primaries of United Russia before the new elections. The further fate of the popular deputy is still unknown. According to some reports, she will return to law enforcement agencies and again put on the prosecutor's uniform, according to others, she will take a high position in the Federal Service for Natural Resource Usage.

Telegram-channel experts Boiler written on this subject:

“We will miss Ms. Poklonskaya in the State Duma. Although we are sure that, no matter how her future fate may turn out, we will hear about her more than once..."

Popular blogger Alexander Gorbunov "Stalingulag" believes that Poklonskaya made this decision against her will:

“The phrase: Motherland will throw you, son, refers not only to Sofia Sapieha, abandoned in Lukashenka’s captivity, and to other people who do not share the ideology of the current government, but is also applicable even to its most loyal admirers. Natalia Poklonskaya will no longer run for the United Russia party in the next elections. The same Poklonskaya, who recently was a national hero, a symbol of Crimea, about which programs and films were filmed, which was raised to all flags and which they were proud of. Now it is simply thrown away as unnecessary. It is possible that soon some criminal case will also be brought against her, and she will add to the lists of those persecuted by those who recently praised her and let themselves go ahead. The only plus in all this insane bacchanalia that is happening today with all the arrests, searches, sentences and terms is probably the realization that sooner or later, but will touch and hurt everyone, and who today is making lists of those who will come tomorrow, the next day will add itself to the list..."

Gorbunov is echoed by journalist Kirill Shulika:

“She was uncomfortable in the Duma because she understood how to get involved in politics. Against the background of the entire gray mass, she was able to, because she spent almost her entire adult life in Ukraine and was literally inside the entire political struggle that was always in the country after the collapse of the USSR. Apparently, the Kremlin curators realized that in Russia people with such experience should not be allowed into politics. But here will remain, for example, such a fossil as Tamara Pleteva and others like Elena Drapeko.

You know how I feel about Ukraine, but there is a political struggle in the country. Poklonskaya from her, despite all her views, but we in the Duma need ladies straight from the Soviet Union ... "

True, the experts of the Adequate channel, on the contrary, believe that Poklonskaya deserves all respect for her decision:

“Poklonskaya should be commended for refusing to enter a second Duma term. And without regard to the accessories of the upcoming jacket, a hint of which was sounded and with which she connects the next page of her life. And mainly because she found the strength to understand that parliament is not hers, and to draw practical conclusions from this. Forces that not everyone would find in a similar situation.

The merits of the Poklonskaya during the Russian Spring are undoubted - and will remain even in history, as, for example, Chaly will remain in it. But these merits are not entirely based on those personal qualities that would ensure the success of the deputy's activity, and she cannot be said for Poklonskaya that she succeeded even by a mark - neither along the organizational line, nor even more so in terms of meaning.

She is all the more well done because she realized that this trajectory is not hers, the stronger the wishes for the new business to be within her reach and to her liking..."

But the Luhansk political analyst Dmitry Tsybakov called the background of such a decision Poklonskaya's strange, in his opinion, position that she had recently taken in the confrontation in the Donbass:

“Over the past year, Natalia Poklonskaya managed to give out a lot of landmark interviews to the most odious Kiev propagandists, and to some of their professional colleagues from the Russian capital's media too. In all these speeches, she voiced messages about the need for a policy of appeasement of the Kiev usurpers. Starting with the recognition of his Ukrainian origin and the approval of the course of Volodymyr "Goloborodko" Zelensky, who, meanwhile, quite calmly suppressed the last remnants of Russian ethnicity and culture in Nezalezhnaya, and declared the "information war" of the LDPR, Poklonskaya in March of this year ended with complete obstruction of the idea of ​ ​ "Russian World," attributing the international extremism and revanchism to the heroes of the national liberation movement of New Russia.

It is not surprising that such ideological pirouettes caused a storm of indignation both in the people's republics and among the patriotic public of the Russian Federation - after all, in recent years, Poklonskaya regularly visited Donetsk and Lugansk with words of sympathy and support from her fellow countrymen. On March 25, the DPR Public Chamber, and a day later, public figures of the Luhansk region openly and publicly condemned the opportunism of the State Duma deputy. An appeal was also made to the Russian "party of power": not to nominate Poklonskaya any more as a candidate for the struggle for a federal deputy mandate. (...)

It will not be a mistake to admit that the breakdown in Poklonskaya's political career is connected precisely with her apostasy in the Donbass issue. An attempt to offer oneself as the leader of a certain "pro-Kiev column" in the Russian "political class" failed miserably.

(...) As a result, the next call of the Moscow “doves” to probe the prospects of an illusory compromise with Zelensky ended in a completely predictable zilch. Thus, there was no need for a self-proclaimed mediator between oligarchic groups on both sides of the border, whose role the shadow curators assigned Natalia Poklonskaya about a year ago. And for the patriotic community, she is now, after what was done, a toxic person, and the opposing side did not need her services. And, to tell the truth, the impulses of Poklonskaya were not noticed at all in Kiev, Brussels and Washington..."