The example is contagious

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Svetlana Medvedeva withdrew her 250 thousand rubles for the Kronstadt Naval Cathedral from the family budget only a few days ago, saying: “We are faced with a difficult task - to complete the restoration of the cathedral by 2013.”

And the Moscow authorities, rumors about whose resignation have recently revived again, have already predictably reported: they say, we’ll get it done a year earlier. “The mayor of Moscow, members of the government, Muscovites raised some money to carry out work on a sponsorship basis,” reported the first vice-mayor of the capital, Vladimir Resin. And Luzhkov even promised to auction his collection of silver coins. What can you do to follow in the footsteps of the First Lady!

The St. Petersburg authorities took upon themselves to improve the territory of the cathedral. The Ministry of Culture decided to allocate 300 million rubles for its restoration this year, and another billion next year...

On the specially created website of the specially created International Charitable Foundation “Kronstadt Naval Cathedral in the Name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker,” the list of benefactors takes up several pages. No wonder, because in addition to Medvedeva, the board of trustees includes Gryzlov, Luzhkov, Matvienko, Avdeev, Serdyukov, Klebanov and other characters who do not need advertising. Such people know how to accumulate money.

In 2008, for example, Svetlana Medvedeva had only 135 thousand rubles in her bank account, and in 2009 – already 7.5 million. Probably, the interest accumulated, because formally the First Lady does not work anywhere, being engaged only in charitable and educational activities as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Targeted Comprehensive Program “Spiritual and Moral Culture of the Younger Generation of Russia.” And to think that she makes money from charity, allocating only a modest 250 thousand of these millions for charity itself, would be blasphemy.

One way or another, the example of the first lady turned out to be contagious. And with such potential, she would have to prove herself not only in the church field. Does Svetlana Medvedeva help hospitals and orphanages? We need to do this more publicly. And then the money from Chelsea will return to Russia.

Let him sit behind the wheel of an excavator, at least for five minutes. Look, Luzhkov will sell his wife’s property in London and finally complete the construction of a road junction on Sokol. It would also not hurt her to speak out against the flashing lights, go to Triumphal Square on the 31st, volunteer for the army, declare all income and indicate their source, and organize a cleanup day with logs hauling on Red Square. Then we’ll see if she becomes a model for officials. Or they will again pay off their social debt with sold pieces of silver.