In the Kremlin

The results of the week. It’s good to be kisi

December 4, 2009 Vladimir Nadein

Putin is being improved. He can get better to say for hours, without saying anything. His author’s handwriting becomes stricter. The loose scenarios of his meetings with the people are replaced by a supervision, a foreigner-idefix. In the newly completed television show, this fixation was the general idea: "With Putin in the heart in Putin's places." That is, the cities on the screen did not arise according to the rating of greatness, not by contribution to the national economy and not even according to time zones, but in accordance with the premiere’s business trips in the past year. He was there then - and here he is, as it were, there again.

Last time, the audience was busy with United Russia activists in business sorts. The audience was marvelous. Others slept. Those who found the strength to confront nature were sorry to look. Activists asked even completely normal questions with some exquisite dullness, which is why the answers looked as if Putin and Gryzlov exchanged intelligence.

This time the amphitheater filled the youth in color. Hundreds of students were delivered from all over the country. They were selected according to the principles, only one of which is quite obvious: the girls were, well, just the beauties written. When the numbers, which willingly and abundantly reproduced Putin, evicted completely unbearable despondency, the operators showed the face of a student at the full screen, and then wanted Putin to speak, spoke and spoke.

What was played out by students was lost on the working class. The impression is terrible. As if the proletarians of all countries really want, but they can’t connect. Gloomy the same faces, stand in construction. Hands pull only those who are supposed. However, the television manager still does not see the random hand at point blank range, no matter how you pull. They begin with gratitude to Putin, they finish gratitude to Putin. First, thanks for what he has already done. In the end, they thank the fact that so far he is only asked to do, but will do it or not is unknown.

Judging by the reverence with which the staff of leading enterprises listened to Putin, then Marx did not see something in the working class. I'm not even talking about manners. Maybe it’s good when the power and the proletariat are mutually polite. But here are the foreman of locksmiths, strong, well-fed, the eyes of the clicks, chopping in our way: they say, they haven’t shot those, but it would be necessary. In response, Putin calmly, but firmly rejects the recommendation. If we shoot everyone, the Prime Minister explains, then there will be no one to work. The argument, you see, is murderous. But the focus is that the foreman begins to nod approvingly, not yet listening to him to the end. The camera clearly indicates that the foreman agrees easily and joyfully - and not in response to the clarification of V.V. Putin, but already at the first sounds of his voice. If the foreman correctly reflected the mood prevailing in his environment, then domestic nouveau riches will not soon wait for the supply of guillotin from the Izhora plant.

Unlike televisors who strictly acted according to the approved scenario, labor collectives did not present the opportunity to conspire in advance. Despite rehearsals, creative unity was not possible to create from them. Hence the small tricks that are akin to theatrical overlays. Here is a sweet woman, a master of some production, bewildered by sudden glory and bright light, calls herself “Elena”. Putin sees her for the first time in his life. He sits in thousands of kilometers. Nevertheless, confidently and without looking into the papers says: "Dear Elena Ivanovna." Well, isn't it a miracle?

Communication with the people requires sacrifices. You can’t answer questions like: why are you so big and strong, so strongly and disinterestedly love kittens and goats? Evils can distort. Therefore, issues with attempts on free -thinking were also invested in the mouth of the communicating. For example: Why did indecent Chinese iron allow Russian markets to Russian markets? Or: Why is there no hot shower in the county city of N. for 30 years? Or: how long do individual unconscious citizens dare not to buy Zhiguli cars? Or: is it time to put things in order in the repair of the fence around the hut of the grandmother who sheltered the wounded at a tragic crossing?

Putin was true to himself. Not indulging already grateful listeners with excessive ingenuity, he acted in four stages. Firstly, he put all the troubles into shortcomings and omissions. Secondly, he attributed them to either the dashing of the 90s, when the omissions were born. Thirdly, he convicted the world backstage, due to which the shortcomings appeared again. Finally, fourthly, the speedy end promised all the shortcomings due to the fact that the government either has already allocated additional funding, or has not yet allocated, but it would be allocated.

Why trouble with the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station? The owners who did not pay attention to safety are to blame. It is implied: private owners. But the widow of the deceased anxiously asks if they will be left without work when the recovery will end and the station personnel will decrease fifthly? In no case, assures Putin. And he explains: because the main owner of the station is not private traders, but the state.

You can talk more about meeting with the people in more detail, but very boring. Putin does not like to argue with the people, but he does not put a finger in his mouth either. For three and a half hours of conversation in the endless circle of topics, Putin did not make a single proposal in which it would be possible to see a hint of institutional changes.

The healthcare system will remain unchanged. Putin never mentioned legal proceedings. He did not say a word about the freedom of competition. The case will work out with medicines, because the prosecutor will take up the grief-businessmen. State corporations are our response to the mess Yeltsin. After closing the trousers, the trousers are made 16 percent more. Major Evsyukov was not. There is no Major Dymovsky. ZEK Magnitsky did not die. The war in the North Caucasus "does not smell."

A pleasant feature of the Putin television show is their absolute predictability - at least for Putin himself. He no longer hides that he looks in advance and selects the questions that will be asked to him. It is explained by a bureaucratic plug, not because it neglects the form for the sake of content, but because it is its natural language. And the question of Medvedev, about the relationship within the ruling tandem, sailed to him not from the side. It was Putin that he took the question to answer him the way he wanted.

And he wanted to answer this way. We have been working together for a long time. We graduated from one university. We were taught by some teachers.

And that is all? All.

He selected another question for himself: are you, Vladimir Vladimirovich, from the works of the righteous for the good of the homeland and do you have any intentions to devote the rest of the years to the family? Answer: "Do not wait!"

And that is all? All.

Then Putin will say a few more words, they say, I will decide closer to 2012 and according to the results of real fruits. But this is pure cunning. If the guilt for a year of his full deafening failure, this man managed to put on Yeltsin and the USA - can you imagine what jubilantly a low rack will declare after crisis knees?

The question of Khodorkovsky needed Putin like air, and Putin received this question. Clouds are thickened in the Hague, and now it is difficult to imagine which storm to survive the foreign economic activity of Russia, if the Yukos claims already accepted for production will be satisfied. We are talking about fines up to $ 100 billion. Putin is nervous. Not Khodorkovsky was threatened by Putin, looking angrily in the television camera. Khodorkovsky sits firmly and does not hope for the best under Putin. Accusing Khodorkovsky of murders, Putin is blackmailing the West: another step, and you, fluffy Europeans, will become accomplices of the killer. And you, dear, have long been accomplices, says Putin to the Russians, since the treasures from the sale of Yukos were, imagine, not sawn the cooperative “Lake”, but went to the Housing and Public Utilities Fund. And in this fund, Putin says, they do not steal, but they are beneficial to the poor. We walked together - we’ll sit together.

Everything is clear here. But why again Putin was needed the question of Stalin - a riddle. Before going to Stalin, Putin who just did not call effective managers: governors of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Irkutsk, Kemerovo and Chelyabinsk regions, St. Petersburg, chairman of the Russian Railways, and Minister of Defense. Maybe something in the image of an effective mustachioed dictator was so shaken so much that it was necessary to talk about victories again? Maybe he scared away the ghosts of a new, incomprehensible and unpleasant modernization?

Three and a half hours of serious, fundamental lies, minor statistical cleanings and an easily recognized general -fraud, the star of this spectacle gave the expression of a dreary clerical presence, then the pride of the Pahan, surrounded by the right boys, then the hero, who was mistakenly receiving someone else's Order, then Prometheus, to whom the American eagle flew out of the schedule Speak the liver. And only once his face became simple and pleasant. This is when the leader spoke that he, apparently, sincerely and warmly loves. About the flora, fauna and the environment.

He talked about the leopards and leopards, about tigers and fish, about the clear sea and the cozy Far East, and I looked at the screen and thought: it was good to be kisa. And also a dog. Especially in the decisive, for the next 12 years, everything defining 2012.

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