
Before the presidential candidate and his speakers who composed the text for the Izvestia newspaper, there were a number of interesting creative tasks. Submitted to history, they should tell the readers, for which they should be grateful to the author of the article in the past. Turning to the present, to explain why he must say thanks today. Looking into the future, to outline the gloomy prospects, but not to scare to death: if, they say, you will vote for the author, it will be like yesterday and today, and even better. Come up with a good title.
The text was a success.
Starting from the headline. After all, this is only at first glance “Russia focuses” sounds unusual, but if you think about it, it is clear that the author wanted to say in his usual conversational manner. "Russia is focusing, gathering forces and with dignity answers any challenges," he writes at the very end, and the reader, concentrating, captures the main Putin's thought. If I didn’t guess right away.
The most successful episode from a historical review is, of course, the letter of the Hattabe terrorist intercepted into the FSB. The Second Chechen War, with which Putin seized power and gained support for the electorate, is one of the most encoded pages of recent history. And here, focusing on the content of the cited rage, you immediately understand everything - both about the war and about geopolitics. “Russia is more weak than ever,” it turns out that Khattab reported to his unknown “accomplices” abroad. “Today we have a unique chance: to take the North Caucasus from the Russians.” Not suspecting that in the distant 2012 it would be equally successful in Putin’s election campaign, as Basayev participated in it in 2000.
Modernity is extremely convincingly represented in numbers. With the same convincing with which the indicators of tsarist Russia of 1913 were presented with, and every time it turned out that we were getting farther from the autocracy to smear cast iron. From the article by Putin, the reader learns that “life expectancy in Russia is already higher than in the Soviet Union in 1990-1991,” and “real incomes of four out of five Russians exceed the level of 1989 - the“ peak of the development of the USSR ”. Another slander of those who did not disappear the memory will remember that the specified “peak” was accompanied by the total economic collapse of the unconstrum union, but why focus on these details? It is said that they began to live longer and more fun, and whom to compare with whom is this to the author knows better.
Nevertheless, the world enters the era of "global imbalances", as well as "in the zone of turbulence", and "there is no need to nourish illusions here." Everything is generally bad and rather scary. However, we were able to survive the dashing 90s, managed to “get out of the pit” under the leadership of Putin - we will break through now. It is only necessary to make the right choice, especially in March of this year. But this “only depends on us,” the author concludes his thought, promising in the coming weeks it is even more specific to talk about how to “strengthen yourself and your position in a rapidly changing world”. It is, of course, about Russia.
What should not be written in detail is about malicious current political affairs, and Vladimir Putin, the author of Izvestia, easily dismissed Minnoymya. One hundred thousand protesters on Sakharov Avenue? And "meanwhile ... all world experience shows the perniciousness of historical jerks ... and overthrow without creation." Negotiations with the opposition? "But what is it proposed to negotiate? About how to arrange power? Transfer it to" best people "? And then what? What will we do?"
Predicting anger and confusion of tone should not be surprised here: the author speaks out with extreme sincerity. He sincerely does not want any negotiations, guessing also that among those who disagree those who want to communicate with him a little. However, with all their brevity, these answers in the form of questions must be recognized as comprehensive. In particular, in relation to those friends and enemies, who were still going to establish the so-called dialogue with the authorities. There is no need to expect anything else from Putin, no matter how he concentrates, trying to explain with citizens. However, what has been said is enough to look into the future with him, experiencing a surge of various feelings, among which confidence in the future stands out. We will measure the depth of this bottom in the coming years.