What are you deigned?

Today you are served by waiter Sidorov. That is, a journalist, the attitude to which the official authorities are quite neglect. Submit that they will order. Recently, Russian government officials have been exported to the country's borders. There are a great many examples of this in Washington, because the Big Kremlin chief does not visit the US capital does not go.

Either high oil prices, or an excess of pride in their country, forcing Russian officials to guest, like at home. The last example of this behavior was demonstrated the other day in Washington, Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin.

On Saturday, Mr. Kudrin met with the Executive Director of the IMF Rodrigo de Rato and was late for the meeting. Well, it happens, especially since Kudrin got sick with the chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bennanca. I think Bernanke tried to find out from Kudrin why on the eve of Friday the dollar in his speech in his speech so that the Green Course on the London Exchange fell at the euro as much as 45 points.

In general, Kudrin was delayed, and the secretary de Rato was nervous, since the Executive Director of the IMF broke meetings with other ministers. This, however, is not about that.

If you suddenly do not know, at meetings of this level, whether it be the Minister of Finance of Russia, France or Guinea Bisau, protocol survey is necessarily set. And for her in all state and international organizations in Washington there is a special place.

It is in this very place that officials of different countries who come to the US capital, smile and squeeze the hand of their master. In the corridor of Rodrigo de Rato Zalchik, there is also a protocol shooting. But Alexei Kudrin, along with numerous members of his delegation, passed him, despite the desperate attempt of one of his employees to stop the procession.

The photoreputers who watched this scene froze, and Alexei Kudrin, calling the employee who screaming his hand with a movement, quietly asked him: “Why did you bring them here?” The explanation of the rules existing in the IMF did not satisfy the Russian minister, and he continued to move towards the negotiation room.

After a few seconds, Rodrigo de Rato appeared at the site of protocol survey. But he saw only the backs of the members of the Russian delegation retreating to the negotiation. There was no choice executive director of the IMF how to run after them, and already in the room to find Minister Kudrin and shake his hand.

After a meeting with de Rato, an employee of Alexei Kudrin explained to the taken aback photo correspondents that "the minister is not needed by such a PR."

It is unlikely that Mr. Kudrin has any high military rank (although, I remember, I still have President Yeltsin ordered all ministers to distribute epaulettes). He simply lives in a well-paid, but still military camp. Like, however, most of his colleagues. Being a “colonel”, he sees how “generals” behave, and tries to the best of the strength to be like them.

An additional confirmation of these words is the fact that, flying away on Saturday from Washington to New York, Alexei Kudrin “forgot” to take with him the journalists of his own pool. He simply flew away, not even noticing that there were more fellow travelers on the USA in the USA. And the serviceman, which was bold to impenetrable goosebumps, was obviously afraid to interfere with the “inconsistent” issue.