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The main thing is to have no problems

September 28, 2010 Anton Oresh

As a fan with a lifelong experience, I remember how we talked about tennis in the early 80s. Then Martin Navvatilova, who escaped from Czechoslovakia to America, won everything in a row. And so, showing, for example, fragments of the Wimbleon finale on our television managed to not give the name of one of the participants at all, as if there were not two, but only one person. He plays with himself, loses to himself. The winners in all categories were reported in the Soviet Sports, except for the female single.

Such specific associations caused me what happened at TEFI. Manana Aslamazyan was not declared from the stage. She received not a prize for a third-plan role in a 250-serial epic about cops or doctors. She was given TEFI for his contribution to the development of our television. This is a special, most important prize. He is generally more valuable than any other reward. And it is wonderful that academics had the courage to award Ashmazyan this award - no one forced them to do it. Could find any other candidate. If not in modern television (where really if you can give someone “for contribution”, then only advertising agents bringing television channels a really outstanding contribution to their piggy banks), then they would find one of the “old people” of the Soviet era, who else is alive. But they gave the award to Manana. Only from the stage they did not announce this.

The mile, dodging, tried to explain why this happened. He said about the fact that Manana especially helped regional television, and we, they say, we will give this award at the TEFIs, and about the fact that we wanted to exclude the situation in which the presentation of the prize for Manana would be cut out of the broadcast. And something else, no longer understandable. All nonsense, in short. And here would be cut out or not cut out? Let the channel wriggle and get out, let his conscience haunt him. What is before that? The Academy was awarded, the Academy announced, the Academy awarded. And then let others decide for themselves what to do with this fact.

But with a mug I did not want problems. You can lose honor, you can lose dignity - the main thing is not to have problems.

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