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Kremlin Feng Shui
The office of Vladislav Surkov through the eyes of political scientists and specialists in Feng Shui
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On the hardware - direct phones and selector communication
Creator of impressions. With a dozen photos of the office of the chief Kremlin ideologist Vladislav Surkov made a splash on the Internet. What can you find out about a person and an official, considering his office, ”the New Times ** found out
Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov - a busy person and not every day visits an office office. Nevertheless, on January 20, he was at the workplace in a wrapped tie and a jacket in a wide cage. Before him at the oval table on the fourth floor of the President’s residence building at the Kremlin, Corp. 14, high -educated people sat - mathematicians and physicists, among whom was the Nobel laureate Wolfgang Ketterle. They arrived in a golden -footed one with the aim of Surkov is pleasant - to discuss cooperation with the Skolkovo Innograd. Surkov led a lively conversation about the fate of the project he supervised and, inspired, allowed Blogger Ilya Varlamov to conduct a detailed shooting of his office. The photographer took full chance to the chance, and posted the results on the Internet.
Surkov's space
Wooden panels on the walls, from the same material tables and cabinets with books. Pure classic. The mystery of the cabinet is given perhaps the front door. It will not be easy for a person who suddenly woke up in this room, since the door does not stand out among the wall panels. Otherwise, a solid cabinet of the high boss.
Olga Krystanovskaya, the head of the study sector of the Elites of the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a member of the United Russia party, has been in this office more than once. “Photos of the prime minister and president in his office are located on adjacent walls,” Krystanovskaya notes. - I studied the manner of the location of portraits of the first persons in the regions. As a rule, they hang nearby. Sometimes separated by the emblem. One governor saw that they were hanging on one wall, as if nearby, but Putin’s portrait is 15 cm higher. There is some symbolism in this. ”
Hanging a photo of the president and the prime minister on different walls is also a kind of symbolism.
“I saw officials in the same building and on the Old Square,” the sociologist continues. -Many are everywhere there are some boxes, papers ... The same person is used to ordering everything. He has three remote controls from different devices are one to one, in size: from larger to smaller. He is pedantic. " Krystanovskaya also noticed a portable weather station on the Surkov’s hardware, which further assured her that the owner of this cabinet loves to monitor various indicators and double -check the data - unconditionally a pedant.
The current takes
From the point of view of Taoist practice, Feng Shui workplace Vladislav Yuryevich needs additional tuning. Especially for The New Times, the President of the Feng Shui Academy Alexander Anishchenko, using cards and photos of the building and office in the Kremlin, conducted a specialized study. 
It turns out that in the current period (2004–2023), the orientation of the 14th Corps of the Kremlin in the space of the Earth’s magnetic field is very average in favor. Inside the building, energy is formed, which allows you to be productive, but does not give the desired results. The facade is focused on the river - and this is positive. But the bend of the channel does not bring benefits, and the current takes energy, and this leads to outfills in the activities, loss of time and leakage of money.
“The office of Vladislav is in the southern sector of the building. This is one of the least favorable sectors, ”says Anishchenko. - His influence leads to difficulties in development. To achieve the desired, you have to make more efforts than a person would like. In 2009-2010, influence on this sector was more positive and processes went better. But with the onset of 2011, the situation is changing. This year, the owner of the office will have to face obstacles. They will come unexpectedly, and he will not be ready for their appearance. ” On the eve of the 2012 presidential election, the situation and incorrect lighting are aggravated. The ceiling is not fully written in light, and this, according to Feng Shui, subconsciously creates a feeling of dark sky. The owner of such a room always expects something unexpected and is in suspense.
"Hello, president"
But with the table at the deputy head, and some say, de facto the head of the presidential administration, everything is fine. It stands in the right place, and is made of favorable material - a tree. When Vladislav Yuryevich sits behind him in the depths of the office, he just needs to stretch out his right hand to contact the president and prime minister. On the hardware, he has vintage vertebrae phones with signs "President" and "Chairman of the Government". But there are others-you can call the Investigative Committee, to cope about something important. There are two selector communications devices. With one pressing of the Surkov button, he can contact all the eight of the president’s envoy in the regions, the Governor of the Moscow Region, with the leaders of the parties - Zhirinovsky and Zyuganov, the speaker of the State Duma, the head of the Federation Council, the General Prosecutor, as well as the chairmen of the country's senior courts and other important officials. Although the question is: why does the chapter seem to be an independent branch of power, the judicial, an official, even a high one, can call a button? Consult or give orders?
“As for phones, this is an indicator of status,” says Dmitry Furman, political scientist and chief researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences. - The more the official has phones and the louder the names and positions on them, the higher the owner of the office costs. The visitor immediately evaluates this and behaves appropriately. This is not only a functional attribute, but also an instrument of suggestion. ”
Many letters
The library of Vladislav Surkov attracted a lot of attention. Some approve of the selection, while others believe that the set of books is accidental, and Surkov himself did not read them at all. “I have many of these books, those related to political science and related areas. Nothing special for the library of the politician, - notes Dmitry Furman. -But books about Masons and Templars are already ... somewhere wrong. On the one hand, absolute Galichea, on the other hand, is a conspiratorial Galichea. ” This lies very well on his real image, Furman believes, recalling that the Surkov is standing at the origins of the movements of “ours” and “walking together”. And he concludes: “From this library, it is difficult to make far -reaching conclusions from this porridge. There are many books on the history of imperial Russia, generally books with a bias in imperialism. Such a library could have Alexander Dugin. ” 
The Eurasian Alexander Dugin, in turn, believes that Surkov hardly thoroughly studied his library. “He has the works of philosophers, economists, sociologists, political works and what is not there. These books are more likely “traces” of those who have been to his office. He also has my book. "
If you believe Dugin, who repeatedly visited Surkova in his office, then “inherited” the first deputy chairman and candidate for the 2004 presidential election in Ukraine Dmitry Korchinsky, and the East-Ossetian scientist Titarenko (this is not the only book about China in the Cabinet of Surkov), the historian of the conservative camp, the sociologist and historian of the Church Nikolai Mitrokhin And many others.
Olga Krystanovskaya believes that the presence of Ernst Junger, Bokly and Michel Foucault in the Surkov library shows that Surkov is interested in studying the processes of the functioning of society. Proceedings in comparative political science tell Krystanovskaya that their owner is interested in foreign experience: “His books are not very systematized, but this is at first glance. The fact that Primakov stands next to the box may mean that he has his own system, understandable only to him alone. ”
Oleg Vladimirovich, a psychologist who wished to leave his name unnamed, working in one of the Moscow boarding schools for psycho -chronic, noted in such an “original Surkov system” the lack of pronounced pedantry. “The pedant is a pedant - he has everything smoothly. Immediately, books are placed unsystematic: not in height and not aligned relative to the end part. " At the same time, the psychologist believes that the owner of the cabinet is most likely an extrovert: a library in the Ferris field, is not closed with dark glass or wooden doors.
Surkov has a place for encyclopedias in the office. A whole wall rack. “British” and “Brief Russian Encyclopedia” flaunts there. Part of the volumes is covered by a sign with an inscription made by Chinese hieroglyphs. Signs of iconic, important. It does not have a name and a wise Chinese proverb, on it, the speaking inscription is “sovereign democracy”.
Gallery of idols
Portraits of the first persons of the state and family photographs are a regular official standard. But there are other, non-standard: from the photo of Otto von Bismarck, the collector of German lands at the Prussian king Wilhelm I and the man, whose reforms were erected to the pedestal of officials and the military, to the famous rumper of the 90s of the 90s of Tupac Shakur. “He belongs to the generation that has grown on the Beatles,” says Krystanovskaya. - For many of his peers, these are cult figures. And he, occupying such a high post, does not shy about the portraits of Lennon and Che Guevara: he is not only an official, but also a person with his views and tastes. ” 
Psychologist Oleg Vladimirovich saw Surkov’s readiness to accept everything new for portraits of rebels, but noted a funny feature: on the book shelves-portraits of the poet, Joseph Brodsky and Argentinean, symbolist, Jorge Borhees, portraits of the Soviet government. But the official failed to find the works of these authors in the library. But there are collected works (and the publications of mostly Soviet years) Chekhov, Pushkin, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Dostoevsky and Kostomarov, and their portraits are absent. The table adjacent to one of the bookcases is laid down by photographs of the already mentioned Tupac, Barack Obama, scientists Benois Mandelbrot, the author of work on the geometry of nature, Werner Geisenberg, the great German physicist who made (unsuccessfully) the nuclear bomb for Hitler, the physicist and the nobel laureate of Ilya Ilya Prigozhin. “Portraits in his office create the image of the most avant -garde of officials, free -thinking, and the most ordinary and boring of bureaucratic avant -garde players,” Alexander Dugin summarizes the general impression of the office of Vladislav Surkov. - That's why he is sitting there. A very timely person. To whom he serves is incomprehensible, but he, perhaps, himself did not fully understand who he serves. The ability to maintain conversations on topics in which he does not understand anything, makes him a man of the era. "
“Surkov was preparing for a meeting with physicists and mathematicians. I am sure that portraits of physicists in his office appeared shortly before meeting with scientists. I think that a month ago he could not answer who is depicted in these photographs. He is trying to create an image. This is part of the most successful project of the Surkov project - the mythologization of himself, ”the political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky concludes.
And Vladislav Surkov, meanwhile, works, sleeps, studies and teaches. He inspires, emits, touches, is interested. Savorns and causes complete bewilderment. It invents ideology and looks out the window. And outside the window - on the frosty sun, the bell tower of Ivan the Great. The sun reflected by the dome painfully cuts the eyes. He does not hear the ringing, the bells are replaced by the rattle of phones. He will raise the phone “Premier” or “President”, straighten his shoulders, straighten. And he will call the one who is lower and can shout.