
You won’t believe it, but Alexei Chaly, the legendary “folk mayor” of Sevastopol, opposed the museum and against the dominance of churchmen. The current speaker of the City Legislative Assembly proposed to cancel the appointment of Archpriest Sergius of Khalyuta as director of the reserve "Chersonesos Tauride" . “I consider the governor’s order an unsuccessful step,” Chaly said. The words of a person in a sweater, one of those who signed a signature on the agreement on the adoption of Crimea in the Russian Federation, were very weighty.
However, Chaly was not the first. Before him, the director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, who uttered the word "provocation", stood up for his colleagues. Then, in the same spirit, Vladimir Tolstoy spoke, adviser to the Russian president in culture. A little later, they gently disowned the scandal and in the Russian Orthodox Church, from where the message came that the Patriarch was not in the know. And the first were the museum workers themselves.
In the video where they, having surrounded the governor Sergei Chanipo, discuss his personnel insight in chorus, a lot of diverse thoughts were expressed. About the museum, which is an ancient world -class monument. About the church, which is separated from the state according to the Constitution. About the new director, who has not tarnished himself with a close acquaintance with science. About the former director Andrei Kulagin, to whom the team trusts. About the governor, whose decision to dismiss the old director and appoint a new one was impulsive, the consequences may be catastrophic.
The main idea that sounded in an open letter of museum workers, which was read out Comrade. Changer under the arches of the museum, came down to the fact that "Chersonesos-Korsun is the cradle and shrine of Russian Orthodoxy, and no one disputes this fact." When it turned out that he did not want to listen to anyone, another was said: we will write to Putin. Putin will read and justice will restore.
It is clear that the governor did not act on his own, pushing the priest to the post of director. Surely he agreed on this issue with the Kremlin curators and with Medinsky, which he rested on the discussion, and with the patriarchy. And everything was on the ointment, and he came to the Chersonesos to listen to the people, to shout at him and insist on his decision, but it did not work out. Advisor Putin against, Patriarch in ignorance, Medinsky is silent, Chally criticizes. And everything seems to go to the fact that Father Sergius will not become the director. Although it began to, as the camera recorded, to burn out his bossy office.
Why did it happen?
Patriots rioting with the names of Vladimir Vladimirovich and sacred Korsun on the lips, to dismiss much more difficult. Politically inappropriate, as expressed in former times
Of course, the riot of museum workers who defended the dismissed director impressed the local and Moscow authorities. Still, experts rebelled, threatening the strike, specialists and scientists who are not so easy to replace, if possible. In contrast, for example, from the deputies of both of our long -suffering chambers, not to mention the Channel, the museum workers are a piece people. Moreover, in the Crimea, which was not returned to their native harbor so that historians, archaeologists and restorers run from there.
But the matter, I think, is not only this. Polemicing with the local Leviathan, the Crimean expert community found very accurate words that grabbed the higher authorities of the word. About Putin they relate to. And also about Korsun, about the cradle and about the shrine. In the end, the people who think the Maidan in the Crimea, as the governor spoke out in the hearts, could have expelled, albeit as an invoice. Patriots rioting with the names of Vladimir Vladimirovich and sacred Korsun on the lips, to dismiss much more difficult. It is politically inappropriate, as they put it in former times.
Voluntarily or involuntarily, they, these brave scientists have deduced the formula for disagreements who want to defeat the battle with the authorities. A formula consisting of several words that act as a spell, and now in a distant Moscow straighten the presumptuous tyranny, and the Chally is seeing in the Crimea. It is only necessary what to say about the cradle, to remember about Putin and also so that the video camera is at hand, and the video is promptly posted in YouTube. So now a civil society in a half -stained country is functioning: effectively, convincingly, triumphantly. It practically does not function more.
A natural question arises: is it not time for political opponents of the authorities to use this formula and learn these magical words? If they are not registered in the elections, they are fined for a hunger strike and planted when trying to check the passport data of citizens who put signatures for the nominations, then it is necessary to not only protest. It is necessary to appeal to Putin and at every opportunity to inform the election and prosecutors that Korsun is a cradle and a shrine. Then the forces of evil are dissipated and the most unexpected people will begin to express themselves in defense of the rebels. Checked in the Crimea.
Moreover. If Obama and European politicians wished to somehow improve relations with the Kremlin, then they could now successfully master the experience of Crimean museum workers. Actually, Putin has been waiting for at least one of them for almost a year and a half, calling for him magical words. Simple, in essence, but very effective, as experience shows, unlike sanctions, international courts and billionth fines. Recently, they are known, these amazing words, and one who wants to restore peace and friendship with Putin Russia will definitely say them. It is difficult to think that no one will ever want.
Ilya Milstein - journalist and publicist
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