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Follow your face
How the image of Putin is changing
"What happened to Putin's face?" - This issue has been discussing for almost a year in blogs, in kitchens and among political strategists. And it is clear why, if it is a public policy, the head of the government, which, moreover, may return to the post of head of state. And it's not about idle curiosity. It has long been said: a face is a reflection of the soul, more precisely, what is happening in it. When it comes to a politician, on whose decisions the life of tens of millions of people depends, it is impossible to pretend that the question is not worth attention. The New Times applied for an explanation to specialists
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For the first time, the conversations that Vladimir Putin had a plastic surgery began in October 2010 during his visit to Kyiv. Then the world photo agencies and publications went around the frames: the prime minister’s face with the powder of the Basin-brown bruises and spots around the eyes. The American plastic surgeon Dr. Anthony Yong in his blog Celebrity Cosmetic Surgery then wrote that the bruise could appear for two reasons: either the prime minister crashed into the door jamb, or made a blepharoplasty, that is, a correction (lifting) of the century. The prime minister’s press service urgently stated that there was no bruise. “Probably the light fell like that,” said Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov. “The Prime Minister is tired, recently he has been working a lot and all the time on the trip.” Nevertheless, that the bruise was still, the long -term chronicler of Vladimir Putin, special correspondent of the Kommersant newspaper Andrei Kolesnikov *** “Kommersant” No. 208 dated 10/28/2010, said, but why he did not report. What only multiplied rumors.
World news
Meanwhile, many publications of the world wrote about the bruise on the face of the Prime Minister of Russia - from the USA and Great Britain to India and South Korea. And everyone asked one way or another: the omnipotent Russian prime minister decided to resort to the services of cosmetologists? After visiting Putin the youth forum on Seliger this Augustus, photos taken by the famous blogger photographer Ilya Varlamov appeared on the Web. Putin was not at all like himself. The usual grooves of facial wrinkles, which used to be always noticeable even on official portraits, disappeared from the forehead. The “goose legs” were smoothed out - wrinkles under the eyes. But most surprisingly, the shots of the laughing prime minister were surprising-he once suddenly sagging the cheekbones suddenly rumbled and pouted, so much so that his eyes acquired a Mongoloid incision: “What happened to Putin's face? Why does he look like Udmurt? " “In general, it does not look like itself! Plastic, Botox or double? " - bloggers were perplexed.
“It is difficult to say when changes have occurred, but they are obvious,” specialists wrote on one of the Western sites devoted to plastic surgery (Celebrityplasticpics.com).
Photoanalysis
In an attempt to answer the question so vividly interested in the audience, The New Times first turned to those who have been looking at the premiere or other famous people through the lens for many years. Konstantin Zavrazhin from the Rossiyskaya Gazeta, which is part of the Premier pool and filming Putin for more than ten years, said that he did not notice significant changes in the person of the prime minister. Six months ago, Zavrazhin thought that there were some changes in the face, but "it could be due to fatigue or just bad shape." “This is normal for men of this age,” he said. Zavorzhin shot Putin during his recent meeting with bikers in Novorossiysk and assured The New Times that he did not notice any traces of the operation.
“It is natural that Over the past 10 years, Putin’s face has changed,” Alexander Chumichev *** Alexander Chumichev also said in Soviet times, he worked at the News News Agency - now RIA Novosti, then he was a “largest” president of the Russian Federation, now retired, who had a lot of the president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and a short time - Putin. - The face, as expected, is old, puffiness appeared, there is no such live facial expressions. When the face is swimming, it loses facial expressions - for so many years they do not pass in vain in the power. And why there are no wrinkles - not my business. " "
Most likely, Vladimir Putin carried out three types of procedures: Botox injection in the frontal part of his face to get rid of facial wrinkles and blepharoplasty
" The curtain of silence
Next, The New Times went to plastic surgeons and cosmetologists: they asked to study the old photos of the prime minister, photographs of October 2010 and August 2011, compare them and give a professional assessment of the change in the person of the prime minister.
Of the three dozen domestic and foreign (Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Ukrainian) specialists only four agreed to talk. Doctors refused to discuss "such high -ranking people", reminded of professional ethics and asked "not to draw into political provocations." As one of the famous surgeons explained to the New Times: “Talking anonymously unprofitable for business. It’s not unprofitable for business to talk about this even more. ”
The experts who agreed to advise the New Times immediately warned: by photographs, without examination, one cannot take out a 100 percent verdict. The well-known domestic plastic surgeon Gayk Babayan, who has a 20-year experience behind his shoulders, a full member of the society of plastic reconstructive aesthetic surgery (OPREH), got acquainted with the materials and said that there was no surgical intervention: “Photos with bruises look like an unsuccessful photomontation-look at his blue lips. Living people cannot have such blue lips! Maybe a bruise. There could be some injections, but they, as a rule, do not lead to such edema. ” As for August photographs on Seliger, it is only possible to say something confidently about the forehead. “There are no wrinkles on the forehead with laughter - there could be a banal Botox. This is easy, and no traces after injection. All the same, after 4-5 months it is restored back, ”said Dr. Babayan. This diagnosis was also confirmed by a plastic surgeon from Riga, who asked not to name his name.
The famous Ukrainian plastic surgeon Roman Levitsky told The New Times that such edema and bruises as on the frames of 2010 may appear either as a result of injury, or "after blepharoplasty - operations to correct the age -related changes in the lower eyelids." “The volume and location of bruises, in my opinion, do not allow us to assume isolated administration of drugs such as Botox. For a more accurate analysis, I need to see a person’s face close, ”the expert concluded.
The cosmetologist Oksana Guseva also believes that the prime minister was not tormented by Botox - she suggested other procedures: “Some of my patients flies to massage to a certain French wizard, and for six months - surgeons simply rest. The first time I did not believe my eyes when the 110-kilogram aunt suddenly had almost no second chin and cheekbones appeared, which had long crawled down somewhere. By the way, she said that it was painful and the bruises were. ” In addition, according to Guseva, such rounded cheekbones can become such rounds after the introduction of various fillers * * preparations for correction and tightening of the oval of the face, straightening nasolabial folds, smoothing wrinkles, etc.
The source of The New Times in pharmacological circles, which also asked not to name his name, said that in the pharmacy industry, conversations about the prime minister’s plastic surgery began for the first time in October 2010: “Then all my colleagues began to discuss what kind of bruises, where they were and what they pricked to him.” In August 2011, after a trip to Seliger, there was no doubt among the industry specialists, in the cheekbones were injected. "My colleagues agree that we are talking about local injections of drugs based on calcium hydroxylapatitis."
The operation (under local anesthesia) lasts about 45 minutes - an hour. Using a thin needle, filler is introduced into the skin (English - filler). Fillers are three types. The first group is drugs based on the well -known botulinum toxin A (Botox) - Botox, Dysport, Lantox, Xeomin. These drugs are known mainly by the fact that because of them the face loses facial expressions. The effect of smoothing from Botox manifests itself five days after the operation and lasts about six months, then a second procedure is needed, that is, the processed part of the face will need to be constantly “tightened”. The second category of fillers is a countless amount of hyaluronic acid -based drugs. Their action is longer. And finally, the third category of drugs is based on calcium hydroxylapatitis. This type of fillers is introduced into deeper layers of the skin, straightens it from the inside and lasts about a year - more than a year. The most famous modern drug of this category is called Radiesse and relatively recently appeared on the domestic market. The source of The New Times is sure that it was this drug that was used on the prime minister's face.
However, Dr. Babayan does not agree with the assumptions of injections: this drug is not too popular in Russia. To this, representatives of the pharmaceutical industry retorted: “The prime minister, of course, could do this abroad - in the USA, France, Italy or Switzerland. But in the same way, a specialist could come to him from abroad, simply because flights after the operation are not the most pleasant lesson, ”the source said.
“This is a very traumatic procedure - the needle is introduced deeply, bruises and small bruises remain from the punctures, they can pass in a couple of weeks, and some in a month. In the photographs from Kyiv, bruises are so strong that they can be seen even through a thick layer of powder, ”says The New Times. And swelling in August could be an allergic reaction to injection. “It is important to understand that now there is a tendency to replace surgical intervention with injections - the result is much better,” the interlocutor explains.
Summing up the cautious assessments of specialists, it can be assumed that Vladimir Putin most likely carried out three types of procedures: Botox injection in the frontal part of the face to get rid of facial wrinkles (which led to temporary muscle paralysis), blepharoplasty, as well as the injection of Radicee into cheekbones. In Russia, in expensive clinics, the cost of one injection of Botox and other fillers varies in the region of 10-15 thousand rubles, blepharoplasty will cost 45-116 thousand rubles. In Italian Blefaroplasty clinics costs from € 3 thousand, phillers injections - from € 500 to € 2 thousand. The cost of correction of the eyelids in France ranges from € 2 to € 2.5 thousand, injections - € 250–400. In Germany, the operation in the eyes will cost € 1.1-2 thousand, injections - in the region of € 450. In the United States, injections will cost $ 300-500 and higher, and the operation in the eyes - approximately $ 5-10 thousand „
The needs for a change in the image are associated with deep self -doubt. A sense of confidence and uncertainty is associated with the nature of self -realization
" Slaves of the cover
Correction of the face is by no means so rare among politicians. So, for example, Putin's friend Silvio Berlusconi, who is now 74 years old, regularly uses surgeons, which he does not hesitate to talk about in an interview with reporters. Once an Italian politician admitted that he did blepharoplasty. It is known that he did not refuse as injections, so even from a surgical knife - he made plastic nose. Former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma transplanted his hair and did a lift of his face, which the Ukrainian press wrote about. The leader of the Libyan Jamahiria, who had just lost power, Muamar Gaddafi not only transplanted his hair, but also transferred fat from the abdomen under the skin of his face in 1995 (then there were no modern fillers) to smooth wrinkles. And such examples can be multiplied. The question is - what is the goal of people of power, allowing such manipulations with their appearance, and what does this indicate about the state of their soul?
The director of the Center for Socio-Psychological Rehabilitation “Our Life” Psychologist Alexander Kolmanovsky told what psychological problems pushing successful men aged 40-60 years to change their appearance: “The needs for a change in image are associated with deep self-doubt ... A sense of confidence and uncertainty in men of this age is largely associated with the nature of self-realization. That is, whether he is engaged in his business or something accidental, conjunctural. " Kolmanovsky says his own business, it must necessarily differ in social positiveness, because "if a person does some matter perfectly and he feels like a fish in water, but it is socially negative, he will be in neurosis and rarely understand the causes of this neurosis." Constant stress, often caused by the fact that the name should make complex decisions, and make them alone, causes the need to change something in its appearance. “Such people begin to simulate a more weighty gait, to use a sharper vocabulary. They attach great importance to the dress code. These are all attempts to hide internal anxiety behind external attributes, ”says Kolmanovsky.
Alexander Moskvin, Candidate of Medical Sciences, an information stress specialist, said that such politicians as Putin are “aimed at action, maximum pragmatic, conservative, populist and dominant-authoritarian”, sooner or later become hostages of their image. “Putin, Silvio Berlusconi, Nicolas Sarkozi, Jose Sapathero is a policy of the new time, whose image works for people of modern mentality. This is a mentality of multimedia, which is characterized by clip thinking, when one event is no longer connected with another and in the consciousness of the voter can be painlessly invested and remove any picture from it. ” According to the Moskvin, such politicians get stuck between the mass media created and the masks and “begin to waste time not to get out of a given format”.
Image for sale
Plastic surgery, says Moskvin, is a line of time. “Can you imagine Churchill, Roosevelt, de Gasper, adenauer hostages of his image engaged in plucking, trimming and polishing face? - the expert asks the question. - Natural age is the highest value of politics. Do not hide, but, on the contrary, demonstrate the accumulated wisdom in order to include the archetypes of the leader, leader, father in the minds of subjects. ”
However, political technologists are less strict in their assessments: Populist politicians, which include Putin, are characterized not only to recruit people of quite primitive requests to their ranks, but also to consciously offer people-they are also inclined to the image of the image-to discuss small household details of the policy of the politician. And official television channels show shots like the recent visit of the prime minister to the Smolensk hospital: the prime minister pulled his shoulder, the doctor asked him to undress to his waist to conduct an examination, made an anesthetic application and prescribed a saving ointment. What is not news, not a subject for discussion, causing sympathy and allowing me to forget about the hardships of life for a while, about the growing prices and problems of the child’s equipment to school?