How Davidich deceived everyone and lay down under power

Eric Kituashvili is a scandalous Russian autoblogger, a popularizer of street raising and extreme races. How Davidich shot the “investigations” about the traffic police, for which he ended up in prison and how his eyes changed after the release, journalist Pavel Kanygin understands

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In July last year, a terrible tragedy occurred in Saratov. Right in broad daylight, the driver at the Black Lada Grant at full speed flew into the Man truck parked by the side of the road. The car is soft, two passengers died on the spot, another in serious condition was taken to the hospital. The driver who survived and even managed to get out of the spiritualized car himself said the only phrase that all eyewitnesses later passed on to the journalists: "I have a pussy."
I must say, a twenty -year -old driver who later really found himself in the colony had every reason for such a critical assessment of his own prospects. Because there was no talk of any tragic accident. The fact is that right in broad daylight on a lively street Sokolova, he decided to play street racing and tried to slip between a parked truck and a car passing by him. But the maneuver failed, the “fret” entered and essentially flattened about the heavy truck.

There are thousands of similar accidents on Russian roads annually, but it was this that attracted tremendous attention of the media. The fact is that among those who died that day there was a minor Ivan Busargin, the son of the governor of the Saratov region, Roman Busargin. The guy was fond of extreme sports, including the auto -tank, participated in different high -level competitions, and also in street ramps. And he died precisely due to the fact that his comrade decided to play a cool street racer.

I fight about the laying that among the subscriptions of Ivan Busargin would be found this channel - “Test”. The legendary platform dedicated to cars and everything connected with them. The founding and face of the channel Eric Kituashvili devoted his life-no, not even to create a channel, but to create a youth cult, in which speed, audacity and kitchch were present in some kind of murderous proportion.

Today we will talk about this character. About his difficult media path, about his personal rebellion, about accusations of attempting to the head of Ingushetia, as well as what happened to Cubuashvili now - I think you will be surprised. Well, we will also talk about the responsibility that the idols bear to their young audience, about this inevitable fee for popularity.

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Davi for gas, Davidich!

Now Eric Kituashvili known as Eric Davidich is 44 years old, and almost his whole life is cars. According to legend, he was even born almost in the car of the car: his mother, while driving herself, arrived at the Moscow restaurant "Prague", ate and found that the waters had left her. And I realized that it was time in the hospital.

At school, he, of course, was causing and impudent, just a truly bad guy. Well, where, it seems to you, was Kituashvili after school? Well, of course, not at the philological faculty of Moscow State University, but in the army. Moreover, according to him, right immediately in the special forces of the GRU.

Well, having returned from the service, he plunges into the world of car.

The fact is that in the late 90s, his father leaves work in the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate and decides to do business related to cars-the repair of elite machines. The son is taken for the same thing. Davidich is engaged in the sale, repair, tuning of the car. He quickly makes acquaintances among the owners of expensive cars-maybe his father’s acquaintances helped, after all, Petrovka was not sneezed for you. Or maybe, however, the guy had social intelligence at the level - in short, he went.

Eric is growing, and with him his media grows. In 2008, Davidich opens the legendary site for motorists of the “review” - in fact, it was referred to the observation deck on the Sparrow Hills in Moscow, where lovers of cars and motorcycles loved to gather, and where Davidich was already a regulars. Here, on the “review”, Eric begins to upload his own videos about the repair and tuning of the car, about the races of the street racers. The site quickly becomes popular, and this is explainable, because then the real world is just beginning to be mastered in the online space. And the topic about cars is very in demand.

In addition, then in the life of Eric Davidich, she appears, “shadow”, which from now on and for many, long years will become the object of worship and the night dream of many of its fans and followers.

The BMW M5 E60 car was bought by Davidych in 2009 for the amount that now seems just ridiculous - 4.2 million rubles. The car was torn out, pushed into a gold film and soon it became not only the personification of Laksher-lives on Moscow roads, but also a real star of the then social networks. Symbol "Watching".

Approximately then, in 2009, the “review” appeared a YouTube channel. In those days, YouTube was not yet such a promoted site, and we can say that Davidich is one of the first to collect a huge audience here. He arranges auto -trustees in the country, shoots and posts it on the Internet. And these videos are becoming frantically popular. Eric is even surprised if he is not recognized somewhere.

All this young greyhound, all this type of riot, attracted the attention of thousands of guys and girls throughout the country to the figure of Davidich. But at first, it was not fully clearly left: but against what is the rebellion? Against the rules of the road, or what? Well, this is somehow not serious even. Maybe then against the rules for accommodation in hotels?

For example, the case was widely known when the time of the automotive rally from Moscow to Yekaterinburg in 2010, Davidych’s company scandalized in the Samara hotel. Or the conflict of “reviews” with the residents of houses on the Sparrow Mountains has still sensed very much in those years. Those were unhappy that motors roar under their windows at night.

The main goal and value of Davidich, who was grouped around Davidych, was to drive at frantic speeds along the city and streets and twisting their cars and their own impudence to the surrounding roar. Other goals of all this party was somehow not visible. There was no criminal-romantic storyline as in the “Fast and Furious”.

Of course, all this protest for the sake of protest could not remain attractive for a long time. And therefore, soon Davidich and his communities grow different passing missions. For example, races during auto -tests in orphanages with gifts. Well, also - the exposure of unscrupulous traffic police officers.

This is the beginning of the tenth, the fight against corruption is in the top of the interests of Russian society, which has not yet been explained that this is extremism. So Davidich gets directly to the point - and its popularity grows like on yeast. His "traffic police hunt" , as these videos on the "Wish" channel call, according to the intensity of emotions-just something teenage-Marvellovskoye.

Eric simply introduces such a stylistic of a conversation with representatives of the authorities. He creates the illusion of omnipotence with its viewers - they say, behave the same, they deserve it. It accelerates the image of a daring, but fair owner of the roads. And the young people like it. They look at him, they imitate him.

Soon the super -popular Davidich is already called on television. Directly on the federal television channel Russia-2, to conduct a program about unpredictable auto-regions. And somehow Eric does not occur to the head that one of the most unpredictable authors on Russian roads is, in fact, he himself and his followers.

Davidich and "GTA Gang "

In 2014, mainly on the M4 Don highway in the suburbs, a truly terrible gang of killers appeared . These people operated at night. They stopped cars, shot passengers and took all the values. Davidich in all seriousness decided that only he and his comrades could stop lawlessness.

The special operation was called patho: "If not we, then who?" Her move was covered in detail on the YouTube Channel "Smalls".

Kituashvili was sure that police officers were only happy with this idea: a sufficient number of police officers could not be pulled into such a huge territory, so cool guys with weapons and cars would be in handy. But in fact it was, of course, not so. A bright, noticeable column of cars, which was also shot on cameras from different angles, only scared off the criminals.

As part of this operation, Kituashvili and his accomplices slowed down suspicious, in their opinion, motorists and searched their cars. Here, it is not even a matter of legality that surprises me the most, but the adequacy of the participants in the events.

Speaking of adequacy. Around the same years, the Stopham movement was operating in Russia. These were the same Vigilants - well, that is, voluntary assistants to the state, without trial and investigation, persecuting violators. Only those were not chasing the killers on the M4 Don highway, but punished the violators of the parking rules. Moreover, as a rule, it was not officials and super -bogged Muscovites, from whom it was possible to immediately get a criminal case, but to ordinary people, albeit on expensive cars. Activists simply glued the poorly parked cars with huge stickers with the inscription "I do not care at everyone - they park, where I want." And, of course, one day these two universes clashed .

But back to the conversation about the exposure of the GTA gang. Of course, the killers were detained by professional law enforcement officers, and Davidich did not help with his film crew. But the video surveillance, mobile phone billing and the testimony of the survivors helped. But the letter Davidych was nevertheless handed the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Davidich and sentence

According to the laws of cinema, here we must be distracted by a romantic line.

Well, what about the "shadow"? How do their relations with Kituashvili develop? From this video , to be honest, I just had a tear right.

Speaking of "shadow": the focus with the gold car Eric Kituashvili will then repeat again. In the middle of the tenths, he will buy a BMW ’5M - and again dress it in a golden livery. We will return to this love story, but so far in the life of Kittyashvili there was an unexpected turn.

In 2016, the blogger was stopped by traffic police officers allegedly just to verify documents. And he was immediately arrested.

The accusation concerned the case of 8 years ago-according to investigators, the blogger staged the theft of cars, and then received compensation from insurance companies. Davidich was charged with "fraud on an especially large scale."

Despite the economic nature of the matter, Davidich decided to declare himself - political prisoners! According to him, the arrest is associated with the very videos about corrupt traffic police that the autoblogger shot. This is what he told reporters who gathered in court : "... When I contacted this corruption story, I understood my mother told me:" Do not get a son, they will kill you, put you up. " But they earn on our lives, on public roads. I do not reconcile. I can be killed in prison. But I will continue to upload information. ”

What rumors did not go in those months until the investigation and the court lasted. They said that they wanted to hang an attempt on the head of Ingushetia in Kituasvili, which happened in 2009. They also said that they revenge on political activity and plans to create a party together with the nationalist Dmitry Demushkin ...

In short, in October 2018, Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Davidich to four years and eight months of imprisonment - for several episodes of fraud with insurance. Given that for more than 2 years he served in a pre -trial detention center, where the day goes for one and a half, and according to some episodes, the statute of limitations expired - Davidich was already released at the end of the same 2018. And he began to give out a bright interview in the style of "how to go into the hut."

Of course, from prison, the autoblogger came out really disappointed in power. In an interview with Yuri Dudu in 2019, Eric Davidich lists all his claims to the state: there is no justice, the cities of our country are dilapidated, the salaries are low. He says that he had sincerely believed, but now he understands that he was stupid and blind. Now he does not believe in Putin and in the system as a whole.

“So what will happen now? [...] Either you will [...] sing in the pipe like everyone else, or you just collect things and you will leave here ... ”

Nevertheless, he evaluates the time in the colony as spent with benefit. He says that he read one book per day, answered daily to letters, and also learned to push up one and a half thousand times. And the argument about the belly that the Dud present to him, Davidych shines simply: they say, I like to eat.

Davidich and "Cockerel Act"

After leaving the colony, the main task of Davidich, of course, is to restore his bright blogger activity. And then he has a conflict with another auto -blogger, a proud who also dressed his BMW in a gold film, which incredibly offended Davidych.

Well, despite all the bitter disappointment in the system, what does Davidich do after liberation? In the framework of his new automotive racket in 2020, he will roll with another noticeable influentor of Russia - Ramzan Kadyrov.

Disappointment in power? No, no, my friends. Davidich puts into practice the formulated logic of modern reality: either collect things and leave the country, or dance as you say. Well, he dances.

There is no such genre as auto-scandals with insults-here Davidich is still good. For example, he passes the notorious pranker of Litvin, who laid out a video in the story, where he can see how he shoots from a water gun on a traffic police car. Davidich reposted this video and noted the Ministry of Internal Affairs account on it. After this, so to speak, the “rooster,” Litvin called Davidych to find out why he did this.

And here is another remarkable story : Davidich on the road cuts a car in which, as it turned out, a fighter of mixed martial arts Magomed Ismailov is traveling. Ismailov did not give up and caught up with the scorch to find out who we have so daring here. Ismailov told this story in his Instagram and-my respect-Knocouted Kituashvili not with fists, but in a word: “Observe the rules of the road and do not arrange the races because of all sorts of little things. And even if you push up 15 thousand times, you do not need to use your strength on ordinary mortals, because mortals may not be difficult. PS Someone, please call an ambulance to 220 kilometers of the Kyiv highway, the side of the gas station is a person with numerous fractures, according to the description, looks like Eric Davidych. ”

Well, in reality, Ismailov, of course, did not beat anyone.

And yet, despite this, apparently, produced story about politeness on the roads, Kituashvili does not change himself. In July 2020, he uploads photographs of his own violations of traffic rules in his insta. According to these pictures, it turns out that the fines of Kituasiti for 257 thousand rubles. Well, where is politeness and respect for other participants in the movement?

Just think about it: the dude is not that by accident, but consciously violates the law, exposes the danger of others, and boasts of it, continues to build a cult around its own impunity.

In the fall of 2022, Eric Kutuashvili was appointed adviser to the general director of the Moskvich plant. And now he drives around Russia, promoting a new car with Soviet name, assembled from Chinese components.

And Davidich also sells his new “shadow” and gives 10 million rubles from its sale to the aid of Russian fighters at his own.

But even after all these transformations, yesterday’s rebel Kituashvili continues to create the usual videos about the cars that so come in to his public. However, now he talks not only about cars, but also about the well -being of Russia.

Well, it was Kituashvili who was overwhelmed or changed - I don’t even know how to say more correctly. And the thousands of fans and associates continues to believe in the ideals that he had previously declared. These guys live at maximum speed, continue to die themselves and kill others on the roads throughout the country.

Here you have a 22-year-old street racer knocking a woman in 2018 in Moscow. Before the tragedy, a video was published in his social networks in which he drove at a speed of 250 km/h. Well, Kazan street raiding has generally grew into a separate phenomenon, whole articles are written about it.

And what does Eric Davidich answer all this, of course, related to the development of this phenomenon in Russia?

The story of Davidych is not just a bayopic about a liar on a steep wheelbar. About a person who can be simultaneously a fighter with the system and friend of Kadyrov, political prisoner and propagandist, clown and hero, fraudster and patriot. This is much more - this is a conversation about responsibility.

The nature of man is such that in our youth we all rebel a lot against the world around him. And this is great and cool, because this teenage maximalism dictated by hormones, trains in us the ability to call a spade a spade, not to cunning and not hypocrite. Some retain these hypertrophied skills in adulthood. They may be called stubborn and not flexible enough, but it is precisely such people who are collective carriers of the conscience of society.

But, unfortunately, all sorts of scumbags are often sitting on this teenage thirst against the whole world. Here you have some “blue whale”, because of which the children were “cut out”, and the stories about the gangs that are used by teenagers, simply because they do not think when they are fulfilled by their idols and mentors. А иногда и спецслужбы.

Ну и Давидыч – сюда же. В погоне за популярностью он за два десятилетия раскачал среди молодой российской аудитории тему опасного стритрейсинга. И ладно бы сам он до конца верил в эту идею и оставался ей предан. Ну как условный Доминик Торетто из «Форсажа», который хоть и сотрудничал с властями, но делал это всегда на своих условиях и не предавал собственных принципов и честь ставил превыше всего.

Но у нашего «Доминика с АлиЭкспресса» с честью как раз проблемка.

Кутуашвили теперь нахваливает собянинские трамваи, ну а те, кто повелся на его пропаганду, в лучшем случае остались калеками, а в худшем – их и вовсе нет на свете. Более того, хамство на дорогах, неуважение к своей и чужой жизни продолжает воспроизводить себя по сей день. Да, может, это происходит не в блестящей Москве, которой это уже наскучило, которая ищет и получает другие впечатления. Но в регионах, где из всех развлечений для подростков только фудкорт в торговом центре и заброшенный завод на окраине, пойти подрифтить «как Давидыч» – это по сей день вполне себе привлекательное развлечение.

И знаете, я рад, что этого типа с судимостью за мошенничество взяли пропагандировать собянинское транспортное благополучие. Во всяком случае так он, может, перестанет делать привлекательной смерть на дороге. И для многих его молодых зрителей – продолжение следует.