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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday took part in extinguishing forest fires in the Ryazan Region from the side of the fire-fire aircraft of Be-200. The head of government during a half -hour flight took the second pilot in the cabin and controlled both the water fence in the Oka River and its discharge to burning forests in the vicinity of Ryazan.
Soon, the ambition was corrected to amphibians, but the confusion did not stop: the photograph provided by the press service of the photograph clearly shows that the prime minister is sitting on the left , i.e. In the chair of the captain of the aircraft. Bloggers are perplexed who such a PR campaign is designed for. User Eric Lobakh writes :
Does anyone come to mind that this causes sympathy among the population?! Fires are not carousels, so that on all kinds of plane to ride under the television cameras! And fewer fires do not get from this. For a month and a half, the government showed complete security in emergency circumstances - and no stupid PR will help.
Another point of view is expressed by the blogger of the Portal Elephant.ru Andrei Miroshnichenko . In his opinion, the current emergency is not of any real political threats to the authorities:
Smoke certified by the stratification of society in status and wealth. The rich and influential have individual systems for cleaning and air conditioning and could transfer the country's smoke without much harm to health. And since power belongs to this category, there was no environmental threat directly to its representatives. And there has been no political threat for a long time. This is a disaster for the population, but not for the authorities. Therefore, there is no particular reason to expect that the peat carrier, which covered about 15% of the population of Russia, will serve the authorities of the lesson. Now, while he was still able to hide the neighboring houses, important persons do not risk it on the TV. Because you can’t stand against the actual smoke. But the smoke will dissipate, and all political defendants will climb.
The next fire-fighting PR PR of the "Young Guard" exposed the user SPBBurger-Senior:
Gattarov and Burmatov himself went to the Ryazan region. The smoldering peat was stewed. There is a photo from the place of work. Real, not photoshole. Burmatov announced the beginning and completion of work on Twitter .
3 hours 50 minutes passed between these two tweets. During this time, Burmatov sent or renounced another 56 messages. On average, one each every 4 minutes. Without removing the mittens and without putting aside the shovel.
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The English -language blogosphere discuss citizenship issues. In the United States, the resort-republican Lindsay Graham translated calls to tighten control over immigration to a new level. He proposed to revise the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing citizenship to everyone born in the United States. In an interview with the Foxnews, the Foxnews television channel Graham called birth citizenship by mistake: "We must say that if you came here illegally and you had a child, this child can automatically not claim citizenship."
Graham’s statement comments on his blog on the British "Gardian" website Political Observer Sahil Kapur :
It is funny that the fourteenth amendment was ratified after the Civil War precisely thanks to the efforts of the Republican Party. Its meaning was then seen in preventing the distribution of citizenship on a racial basis and guarantee equal rights of citizenship to liberated slaves. Now the Republicans, of course, will not be able to change the constitution - for this it is necessary to have two -thirds of the vote in the congress, and they do not even hope for it. However, the proposed changes in principle do not solve the real problems associated with immigration - this is just a political cap for feeding a conservative electorate.
The long -term consequences of this campaign are discussing on the portal The Huffington Post Democratic speechwriter Dylan Leva :
Republicans, it seems, do not understand the huge political consequences of this course: in modern America, the success of the presidential campaign is determined by how Spanning-speaking immigrants vote. In the past ten years, 80% of the population growth has been provided by minorities, the largest of which is just a spell-speaking. The re -election of George Bush is explained by the fact that he secured 44% of the votes of this group of voters to support the reform of the legislation on immigration. John McCain received only 31%, as a result of which he lost Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada and Florida-and, accordingly, the White House.
Meanwhile, in France, President of Sarkozy spoke out to deprive French citizenship certain categories of criminals. Pointing to the complete unrealistic adoption of such proposals, the political observer Arthur Goldhammer analyzes the logic of the debate about citizenship in his blog:
Here is the devilish logic of the security discourse: in fact, it comes down to the revival of nationalist debate. Sarkozy demonstrated how it works: some insignificant incident is taken, the basic human desire for self-preservation is activated, and the people's anger is directed to the traditionally despised and defenseless group of the population. It is announced without any reason for the threat to the safety of real citizens. It is easier to satisfy the audience through this Pharisee anger than through reasonable arguments, and it is useless to argue with the anger. For the President of the Republic, to warm this kind of mood is the top of irresponsibility.