In the opposition

Clarification of the profession

December 15, 2011 Viktor Shenderovich

Well, where the plot of Russian changes will help out, it is still unclear, but the changes have begun, and the interjection state loses popularity. A pleasant time of clarity is coming - pleasant for those who love clarity.

And unpleasant for the rest.

On the eve of the rally in the Bolotnaya Public, it accidentally became aware of the meeting of Surkov with a group of citizens in a characteristic range from Dorenko to Kurginyan. The liberal part of the public in the list of Surkovsky guests naturally hung up the presence of Leonid Radzikhovsky there (the rest for a long time-No Comment).

The public reacted.

Leonid Radzikhovsky answered with the signature grin: “Each of my ordinary visit to the meeting of Surkov with journalists and political scientists (these meetings were probably dozens in recent years) is turning (...) into the secret evening of the Kremlin sages, where the hellish dedication for Russia is brewed ...”

Irony is an indispensable thing in polemic, but vinegar is not a replacement of pure water.

Radzikhovsky said: the meeting on December 8 was not ordinary. The circumstances by that time were already quite extraordinary. Radzikhovsky said: it was not a meeting of an official with reporters. At a meeting of an official with journalists, journalists ask questions, and the official answers them, and these answers are published. No interview that day, however, happened, and you can not even look for traces of the transcript in the media ...

Alas, Radzikhovsky and Ko came to the Old Square not as journalists, but as consultants of the administration - the administration, who fell on an attempt to illegally withhold power and fell asleep. And Mr. Shevchenko’s difficult tantrum in response to the “dematization” of this meeting at once gives both the deep fraining of these “journalists” with this administration, and a complete understanding of the delicacy of the moment.

Inside this hysteria, with a careful gaze, a Proceeding on Freud is found and noticeable traces: Shevchenko suddenly begins to angrily deny the accusations of briefing from the authorities , although it was a question in my text about consulting - feel the difference in vectors.

On the forgery, with a grin, Radzikhovsky is trying to slip through: "An ordinary meeting with journalists." No, no, Leonid. And not ordinary, and not with journalists.

It is these quiet subliles that most clearly indicate a subject of shame, that the participants in the meeting on the old square would like to hide - everyone is to the best of their talent. Radzikhovsky with talent thoroughly, but this does not change the essence.

I would even say: all the more embarrassing.

There are no separate meetings with the stained authorities if you are a journalist. It is not about the beliefs of any degree of complexity, but About the name of the profession and the rules of decency, and the saying about the bull and Jupiter here in the suit in the paradoxical version.

What is allowed by Yakemenko and Tina Kandelaki is not allowed to Radzikhovsky - unless Radzikhovsky does not have plans to turn into Yakemenko or Tina Kandelaki.

Photo from Olegnaumov.ru