Exchange rate for a thaw

The arrest of the fourth group of Russian spies, the so -called "street dozens" (four poor Mexicans, two Chinese - underground sellers of heroin, a dark -skinned restaurant jazis with a wife, an unemployed dentist from Paraguay, a Jewish emigrant from Moldova and a Russian stripper, the ex -wife of the Spanish rabbits), as well as a sharp decrease in the prices for energy carriers) Very beneficial affected the political climate in the Russian Federation. Some experts, not without reason, talk about the third, final "thaw".

Judge for yourself. As you know, after the detention of the second group of Russian illegal immigrants (the so -called "Great Sovetest Chapel") and a sharp decrease in energy prices, the Americans bargained all the defendants in the Yukos case, the resolution of rallies on the triumphal square and the abolition of censorship on television. And after the arrest of the so-called “five illegal violations”, real multi-party systems arose in the country, the powers of secret services were noticeably limited and an article was introduced by the presidential decree, which punish with inhuman cruelty for disrespect for human rights.

At the same time, a sharp drop in energy prices led to the resignation of an unpopular prime minister, about which, in a holest manner, so characteristic of the NTV independent television channel, a revealing documentary was shot by Russians. Bold journalists remembered literally everything: a dark Chekist past, and a scam with rare earth metals, and the second Chechen war, and the authoritarian style of government. It is also reported that on the first television channel such a movie is being prepared about it that the world has not yet seen, but these are only rumors. Like the conversations that competitors from the first seek to get ahead of the documentaryists of the RTR.

Little by little, some details of past and future exchanges become known. They write that during the second meeting of the presidents of Obama and Medvedev at McDonald's, the Russian guest complained to his colleague of the unprecedented pressure that he faces from the leaders of his special services. Against the backdrop of a constant, and a sharp drop in energy prices, their requirements “pull the guys at all costs” strongly poisoned the mood of the Russian leader, and he, reluctantly eating hamburgers, with a sigh, told the leader of the world backstage about this. “You would have caught my spies at least once a year,” the President of the Russian Federation reproached the reloading partner, “otherwise I got over once a month. We don’t pass our own - and we won’t regret anything for them.”

American reporters, who carefully followed their president during the last two meetings, saw his eyes moistened. How he clapped on the shoulder of the sobbing sobbing of the Russian guest. As some Karakuli wrote on a napkin, offering this a variety of transaction options: a very tough resolution on Iran, a very soft domestic-Russian policy, a very urgent appointment to Vladimir Milov as chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation ...

On terms of anonymity, a source in the State Department also said that an attempt to exchange a third group of illegal immigrants for the resignation of the Moscow Mayor Luzhkov and his extradition in the United States was rejected by the American side. “He creates a revolutionary situation with you much more effective than a hundred of our spies,” so, according to the leak, it was said during an informal meeting of the chefs of the SVR and the CIA. The Washington Times reporter "Washington Times" claims that these words were accompanied by a mockery laughter of an American, but it is hardly worth trusting in the fabrications of the yellow press.

What to say in conclusion? All this news evokes a dual feeling. On the one hand, one cannot but rejoice at what pace the process of democratization and purification of the country from the sad heritage of the recent past is in Russia. On the other hand, the methods that our former ideological opponent use are not at all.

As rightly noted in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, these are the methods of the Cold War and its supporters who do not disdain in anything to implement their far -goed plans, including interference in the internal affairs of the sovereign state and a sharp drop in energy prices. In Russia, as with extraordinary accuracy and freshness, the author of the article in the opposition newspaper Izvestia formulates, today only two allies remain - the army and navy. And also, we add, scouts, these modest, but terribly unlucky people who are more expensive than oil, gas and cute to the heart of historical traditions.