“Harun al-Rashid from time to time, disguised, wandered around Baghdad: he wanted to know what the people thought about him and his rule. And this evening..."

Dmitry Medvedev has repeatedly emphasized that he knows something about Russian reality that his critics never dreamed of. In addition, his trusty iPad, which plays the role of vizier Jafar Barmakid (later repressed), helps him get acquainted with the life of ordinary people. And although the head of state does not have to enter the workers’ dormitories, as V.I. Lenin did, in order to get acquainted with the quality of the sheets, he made rapid cavalry attacks several times: in February of this year he unexpectedly visited the Kievsky railway station, in March he promised to drop by unexpectedly in every gateway (however, the visible hand of the FSO , unlike the invisible hand of the market, always warns surrounding residents about the imminent arrival of a planned-spontaneous inspection). And finally the apotheosis.

It turns out that the head of state, dressed in the dress of a commoner, secretly gets acquainted with the life of Russian motorists: “I sometimes drive quietly, no one knows about it, and I can feel like an ordinary driver. I can say that we really have plenty of paradoxes in the way traffic is organized.”

Firstly, it is strange that the head of state, during his inspections, was never stopped by vigilant traffic cops and did not listen to a phrase like: “There are CCTV cameras everywhere - you put the bill in your license, and then run to the nearest savings bank and pay 100 rubles.” Secondly, the entire FSO should simply resign - how did they lose the client? After all, usually this special service, which now looks cooler and more powerful than its colleagues from the Lubyanka, not to mention such little things as the prosecutor’s office , police and bailiffs, exterminates all living things with dust in advance before the appearance of the president and other protected persons. And just now,

When the opening ceremony of the Bolshoi Theater was underway, the valiant security service demanded complete darkness from the neighboring Russian Academic Youth Theater (RAMT). And there - it just so happened by chance - that evening there was a run-through of a new play with the characteristic dissident title “ Don Quixote ”.

The creative group was not comfortable fighting with the mills - the FSO, and the rehearsal took place with darkened windows, as during the bombings. It’s a good thing the security officers didn’t throw lighters onto the roof and didn’t block Don Quixote like the unfortunate student journalists.

And suddenly this is the story with the head of state.

According to the tales of One Thousand and One Nights, Harun al-Rashid wandered around the palace and the surrounding area mainly due to insomnia and constantly ran into girls composing poetry (student journalists), then other figures of various genres (Minaev, Kandelaki - collective Scheherazade). In place of the valiant guard, before resigning for incompetence due to the president’s secret driving of a car, I would check to see if he meets with cultural masters at night - and God forbid not from among the members of the “committee of supporters” or members of the “United Russia." came to one such comrade, Igor Butman , just in the dead of night Alexey Kudrin and played percussion instruments. Or maybe, somewhere in the wilds of the Mother Throne at night, the head of state’s favorite guys from Deep Purple are waiting for him, and he hangs out with them without the obsessive attention of the fighters of the all-seeing General Murov.

And yet, given the conscientious performance of their duties by security guards in recent years, I would like to think that the president is driving around a protected area with the faces of motorists carefully pressed to the hood. And the phrase about the paradoxes of road traffic should be attributed to the desolation of the road after the FSO or the strange Moscow logistics, which the president can study by signs, the rationality of which sometimes cannot be explained even by the most inflamed fantasies of Moscow regulators.

But if the president really breaks away from the chase, as Vladimir Putin did, according to insider stories, when he evaded security on difficult sections of the ski slopes, then he cannot help but understand how much trouble and nervous energy it costs Muscovites for a long time to close the roads along which they intend to first persons fly at wild speed.

And if no one touched the president during his secret voyages in a car, then perhaps the ferocious feudal security regime imposed on our leaders is not needed at all?

In addition, it seems that the top officials are hostages of the security, which turns them from leaders of the country into prisoners, completely alienated from their own people.

“They also say that the Commander of the Faithful, Harun al-Rashid, one night suffered from severe insomnia. And he got out of bed...” But then the FSO woke up...

President Medvedev turned out to be the Harun al-Rashid of our days - Gazeta.Ru