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From the pipe!

August 13, 2009 Vladimir Nadein

Reset with America went well. Dumplings with quails that were treated to guests at Putin’s dacha, the Barack Obama family swallowed without adventure. True, the view of the KGB Major, who inflated the samovar with a huge boot, forced the dark -skinned president to turn out to be clear. But then he pulled himself together, and further Reset went calmly. The same happy fate, they believe in the Kremlin, is waiting for a re -quantation with Ukraine.

Of course, Ukraine is not America, and Viktor Yushchenko should not count on quails. The KGB Major is sent from Moscow, however, it is possible, and not even one, and even in boots - but without a samovar. The main gift of the fraternal Ukrainian people, which this people should appreciate and imbued with the warmest feelings for the great northern relative, is that Mikhail Zurabov will remain in Moscow and, therefore, for a long time, if not forever, will save the people of his presence.

Unlike terrible rumors that have been walking on our TV, Ukrainians have never been planted either for Russian newspapers or for the Russian television radio. Therefore, Zurabov is known there well. It would be an exaggeration to say that his name is terrified by Ukraine. But on the Moldavian, they believe: if a person did not like Khabarovsk, he is unlikely to charm Odessa. And Volyn with Moldavanka here at the same time.

Explaining the reasons why he decided to hold Zurabov for domestic consumption, President Medvedev went to an exquisite maneuver. He presented it as if punishing Ukraine for bad behavior. And he even called the reasons that forced the Kremlin to resort to such cruelty.

The reasons for these are eight.

1. Deliveries of weapons of Georgia. “Those in Kyiv who delivered weapons of the Georgian army and, by the way, do not intend to stop doing this now, completely shares responsibility for the crimes committed with Tbilisi.”

2. The course of Ukraine’s entry into NATO and attempts to complicate the activities of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia.

3. The breakdown of economic ties, primarily in the field of energy.

4. Violation of the property rights of Russian investors in Ukraine.

5. Line for a revision of the general history, “imposing on the international community of nationalist-colored interpretations of mass hunger in the USSR in 1932-1933. as a genocide of the Ukrainian people. ”

6. The crowding out of the Russian language from public life, science, education, culture, media, and legal proceedings.

7. Passionate practice of interference in the affairs of the Orthodox Church. Creating adverse conditions for the recent visit of Patriarch Kirill.

8. The requirement to withdraw two Russian diplomats “without any reason” became “an unprecedented provocation for the entire post-Soviet space”.

None of these claims is the basis for lowering communication between the two neighbors and the largest states in Europe from the level of emergency and plenipotentiary ambassadors to the lowlands of the technical execution of routine diplomatic procedures. Ukraine sold weapons before the war and for cash. Russia sold and sells everything that shoots, to everyone who buys. He sells for money, on credit, on debt and without the slightest look at the degree of cannibalism of the buying regime. The “course to join NATO” remains an imaginary line, which the current president simply does not have enough time to influence. All Europe is unanimous that Russia has made a much more significant contribution to the “breakdown of economic ties” than Ukraine. Compared to Russia, which threw out foreign investors with Sakhalin with a major boot, the Ukrainian authorities behave in custody. Any state community has the right to interpret its history as it considers appropriate. The most prominent historians with world names interpreted the Holodomor of 1932-33. As a genocide long before Yushchenko wrapped his neck for the first time with an orange roll. Starting with the communist "Ukrainization" of the late 20s-early 30s, in "public life, legal proceedings, education"

etc. Only two languages ​​were used. With the emergence of a new country, the share of the “title” language is growing, as it was in all, without a single exception, states that gained independence. In Finland, from the beginning of the 19th century, Finnish replaced the Swedish. Since the same time, the American language (not only excellent orthoepy, but its vocabulary and grammar) clearly squeezed the Anglo-British language from everywhere-both from everyday communication and from official life.

Points of the 7th and 8th are filled with the explosive mixture of arrogance and ignorance. President of the Russian Federation Medvedev has no powers to settle any church affairs. If he is religious, then his highest title is a parishioner. Here at least the forehead is embroidered - no one cares. If Medvedev, as the president, wants to protect Patriarch Kirill, then for him he is not Kirill at all, but Russian citizen Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyaev. As for the announcement of our two diplomats by persons non grata, then the USSR and his successor Russia are beyond any competition. It is difficult to find such a speck on the globe, from where our diplomats would not drive in mutual: it is painfully accustomed to work.

There is no reason to extol the qualifications of the Kremlin diplomats - but not to the same extent they are limited and stupid! It cannot be that they did not realize at all how absurd their accusations are to Ukrainian leadership. It cannot be that they expected, having deprived Yushchenko of the joy of communication with the Surantov Ambassador, to cause tears of repentance in the eyes of the highest Ukrainian leadership. Something else, more important and more serious, should lie behind

The scenes of this action, which looks terribly clumsy and without the slightest chance of foreign policy success.

Praise Yushchenko on the eve of the presidential election on January 10 of next year, thereby increasing the chances of the dear to the heart of the Kremlin Yanukovych? A little warmer, but still - very, very cold. If there is at least the share of the truth is that the war with Georgia is a communal result of the dangerous severity of Ambal Saakashvili, who once called our national leader “Liliputin”, then what to expect from Yushchenko? Of course, the distortion of his courageous appearance with an insidious Kremlin drug also requires evidence. However, no one and the slightest doubt is not caused by the fact that the hordes of the shameful Kremlin political scientists and the super-president of the recent superpowers did everything possible and impossible, all legal and illegal, to extinguish the “orange revolution” in the bud.

But if all eight points are rotten cork, if new attacks only increase very modest, but still not hopeless chances of Yushchenko to re -election, then what is the Kremlin chip?

In gas. More precisely - in Gazprom.

Not a “cherry of the cherry of the hut” ... Not a Sevastopol waltz of warships, dilapidated, like the first “Lada” ... Not an ideological lining of the Holodomor, about which Kremlin figures know little and which they most likely simply spit ... liquefied natural gas with terrible speed and, under terrible pressure, rushes under all of Ukraine. This gas has no other access to big world money. No - and will not appear soon. No - and it is not known whether it will appear at all. And while there is no other gas route, Gazprom will tirelessly pump the first biceps to keep Ukraine in short, even shorter, on the most short leash.

Just the Russian government, already nicknamed the surgical cabinet, cut the budget of next year. They cut everyone. Road construction was reduced by a third. Gazprom was supposed to be a little bit, but at the last moment Putin ordered: Gazprom - not to touch!

Gazprom is a terrible secret available only to the highest leadership. Literally a few people in the world know reliably how many dollar megatons grumble in his opaque belly. And no one knows how and when he is milk. Gazprom's secret milk yield is able to quench the thirst for any political campaign. Putin knows and appreciates this. This is also known to Medvedev, who was appreciated by Putin, appointing him at first the chairman of the board of Gazprom and only then - as the President of the Russian Federation who kept the main exam.

Since then, the water has flowed, maybe not so much, but it is very violent. It can be entrusted that today Putin would not move his former chosen one either in the Russian Federation or even to Gazprom. But life does not end, and if the upcoming electoral fight will need something, it is in the secret money of Gazprom. And this, unlike the ideology of the Holodomor, none of the opposing parties intends to give in to each other.

Diplomat Mikhail Zurabov - the figure is not accidental. This is nothing that he used to chemical with medicines, and now he has been retrained in Tyleran. Zurabov for Putin is one of the few remaining, who can be relying on in the most delicate assignments. At one time, the Zurabov unequilly accepted the blows of criticism for the unsuccessful campaign of monetization of benefits. I came up with all this thing, of course, Putin himself. He himself advocated her. Many, including the author of these lines, are still convinced that monetization should have been carried out - but not so mediocre at the beginning and not so cowardly at the end.

Zurabov could not put Kyiv at Putin's feet, but no one expected it from him. But what could he do and what he was aimed at was to cut off all Russians from the Ukrainian pipe, except V.V. Putin. This would make Gazprom a hostage to the national leader. Anyone who owns Gazprom owns Russia. With an unmeasured Gazprom washing, the past is filled with glory, and the future with victories.

The struggle between Medvedev and Putin, who was brutally disappointed in his choice, will bring us unpredictable examples of false threats, false accusations, cheap pathetics and deeply hidden true goals more than once. The appointment of Mikhail Zurabov by the ambassador at the main pipe as eloquently as his sophisticated removal. That at the same time a little went Yushchenko - so not Obama! Re -quanted , like reset For health, it is almost harmless. If only the major blew himself with a boot, but did not grab the gun.

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