Putin is like a myth. What he really is, no one knows, hence the scope for fantasy. There is more space on the Internet, where everyone can create their own personal Putin, no one is barred from here, not even the presidential administration. The administration, don't be a fool, has spawned a couple of virtual presidents. They look like twins.
But not only the administration is engaged in presidential cloning, there are a dime a dozen Putins in the network for all tastes and all occasions. There is Putin for the little ones, Putin for the politicized bohemia, Putin in military style, Putin for the Jews, and even “like Putin.”
Orkhan Dzhemal took a walk around the places of deployment of the many-sided electronic president in the WEB.
Semi-official Putin is presented on the children's website www.uznay-prezidenta.ru. There, the animated and interactive president tells young citizens who is more important - he or their parents, whether he has favorites, and hints that he has, but this is a state secret. In some places, the cartoonish president almost dissidents, for example, answering the question: “Should we admire the president from morning to evening and agree with him in everything?”
Judging by the answer: “If suddenly someone fell in love with his president too much, cannot live without him, hangs presidential portraits on all four walls and memorizes everything that the president said yesterday on TV, then it is better for such a person to calm down and understand that the president does not need declarations of love,” the well-known children’s writer Grigory Oster, the creator of the president’s edition adapted for children, expected that the site would be visited not only by representatives of primary school age, but also by government officials.
On the site www.vladimir.vladimirovich.ru lives Putin edited by Maxim Kononenko. Kononenkovskiy Putin has endless dialogues with the head of the administration, with Ivan Rybkin, with Boris Berezovsky. This Putin is a little flattered, he refers to friends and colleagues only as “brother”. Between conversations, he plays with soldiers and dreams of retirement.
This site has one undoubted advantage: the life of the country and the activities of the president are covered here, as in a good daily newspaper. True, if someone decides that this site is enough for him to get acquainted with the news, then sooner or later he will end up in the clinic and will assure the attending physician that the world was created exclusively by the powerful imagination of Daniil Kharms.
There is also a musical version of Vladimir Putin on the Internet, authored by fashionable rock musician Nike Borzov. The president's rock version sings:
My name is Vova, modest Vova.
I eat dumplings in the Kremlin canteen.
I know three words, three swear words:
One for Kasyanov, two for Luzhkov.
Woo, I've recently realized that I'm not likely to be impeached.
Wow, how nice I am and how pretty I am.
Oooh, they reproach me for being helped by the special services.
Oooh, and let them help, they are disinterestedly - out of friendship.
They say that the appearance of this musical Putin was even going to be condemned by the deputies of the State Duma, but then changed their minds.
The most recent version of the electronic Counterputin is a video recording of the president's meeting with his proxies. Instead of the usual presidential slogans about doubling GDP and the need to “kill” terrorists, this Putin swears gloomily, demands that his interlocutors “fall down and do push-ups”, threatens to rot everyone in outfits and generally behaves like a sergeant from Stanley Kubrick’s film “Full Metal Jacket”.
Despite the martyrdom that is not characteristic of the president, this Putin looks very convincing.
In addition, the Internet is filled with many sites specializing exclusively in jokes about Vladimir Vladimirovich. http://vova.spb.ru has a collection of cartoons and collages about the incumbent president.
But the most exciting story is connected with the Udmurt Putin website. The site was not about Putin, but about the head of the government of Udmurtia, Yuri Pitkevich. On this Internet resource, Pitkevich assured everyone that he was the same as Putin, well, perhaps on a regional scale. They could not develop this topic on the site for a long time, the provider blocked the site.