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Sometimes mayors are returning
Luzhkov returned to Russia. The propagandists not so long ago proved on TV that such a step is unlikely that there is evidence against the mayor's environment. And he took and returned, which put Dmitry Medvedev in an uncomfortable position. Luzhkov simply takes Medvedev to “weakly”.
“Sometimes they return” - the name of Stephen King’s book is atypical for disgraced politicians and businessmen in Russia. Especially for those who have entered into a strict confrontation with the supreme power and suffered - the majority are failure.
But the former mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, who spent almost all the time abroad in recent months, returned. And he didn’t just return, but promises to appear for interrogation in the “Bank of Moscow Bank” about 13 billion, which were issued by the bank on credit of a little -known company. The investigation believes that the issuance of a loan was in the interests of Inteko, belonging to the wife of Luzhkov Elena Baturina. On this occasion, Luzhkov wants to interrogate as a witness.
In the wording “as a witness” there is a certain threat, since this is easily added to the rhetoric of representatives of law enforcement agencies “so far”. Then, not far from changing the status from the witness to the “accused” with all the ensuing troubles.
However, Luzhkov still returned. Despite the fact that the federal channels unequivocally hinted that Luzhkov’s “bravura” statements are a game to the Western public and the former mayor would not return, since he is afraid of responsibility for corruption crimes. Here the NTV channel transparently hinted that until November 15, Luzhkov "would lie in the clinic, and that the doctors advise him is unknown." Well, at least not the lawyers of the wife, it would be completely transparent.
Such messages could be heard in the final issues of television news a week and a half ago, when a wave of “revealing programs” swept over the television channels. Once again and again, television and propagandists were remembered by the long -suffering “Ambassador Quarter”, the lands under which “Inteko” were sold, and then sold for 13 billion rubles.
And with a relish, everyone quoted the head of the presidential administration, Sergei Naryshkin, who said something about that week about the reason for the resignation of the “prohibitive level of corruption” under Luzhkov. The statement, of course, is status, but it was made a year after the resignation. The fact that in the Kremlin they could not come up with such a simple formulation for a year, it is very difficult to believe.
The “Embassy lands” a year ago were “plowed” by television propaganda, as if virgin ones, and now they should not give a “crop” - neither novelty, nor a real incriminating evidence. However, nothing new to the public is reported. Yes, in fact, to the public, it seems to anyone, no longer care. Last year, she answered sociologists that Luzhkov was a corrupt official. Thus, more than half of Muscovites surveyed about a year ago believed (according to the Levada Center). And more than half insisted that Luzhkov should not be pursued.
The mood since then has changed slightly. According to the October survey, almost half of the Muscovites believes that Luzhkov brought Moscow “more good”. And only 18 believe that in his rule there was "more bad." Luzhkova wants to pursue 39 percent of the respondents, but suggests “leaving Luzhkov and his family at rest” 44 percent.
So we have a signal exchange. Luzhkov criticizes Medvedev, in response he is literally explained on the TV - "Yes, you are weak to return, we have the case for you." In such a situation, “omnipotent” Berezovsky chose to stay in London. Other oligarchs like Leonid Nevzlin and Vladimir Gusinsky preferred Israel. Luzhkov returned and is ready to give some evidence.
It is likely that Luzhkov feels a certain guarantee of security, since he had a public conflict with only one tandemocrat, who in September renounced the highest, and maybe in general from all power. The former mayor did not criticize Vladimir Putin, on the contrary, he greeted his desire to return to the presidential chair.
What puts Dmitry Medvedev in a very strange situation - after all, the former Moscow mayor again takes him on the “weak”. He in the lips of the head of his administration and telecumentors publicly accuse Luzhkov’s environment of corruption, and in response he receives tough criticism and return of the former Moscow mayor to his homeland.
And after all, it is clear that attention will be drawn to the process of giving testimony, and even for a short while and “ponaroshka” of the founder of “United Russia” on the eve of the elections will be a real gift, but the opposition, will be imprisoned. The situation turns out to be paths, and the course should now be done to the Kremlin.
And the comparison of the “former” Luzhkov and the “current” Medvedev and Naryshkin is clearly not in favor of the latter. Somehow they look “current” unsolved-in the official, but not bossful enough. Luzhkov again proves to Medvedev (as Medvedev had recently proved former Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin) that he, roughly speaking, is a man. The current president remains to shake the iPad (or what is now customary) and threaten from the TV.