Fights without rules

How Putin lost his face

Vladimir Putin and his environment are trying to pretend that the whistle was not addressed to the prime minister, but to someone else. But this is not so

Fights without rules. In some 3 days of last week, Vladimir Putin from the father of the nation, the Machu-ruler turned into a politician who fears to meet face to face with the people who adored him yesterday. The prime minister did not come to an anti -drug concert advertising his face throughout Moscow and transferred to the end of December a telecommunication with a country called “Conversation with Putin”. The whistle at the stadium in Olympic gave a new filling to the slogan "Boys, you do not need it." How the whistle of protest grew - the New Times traced
It was not a duel. Ex-champion on micxfight *** fights without rules. Fedor Emelianenko for more than 15 minutes simply beat his opponent Jeff Monson in the ring in the Olympic. Monson, noticeably inferior to Fedor in the classroom, fell, he was stopped by blood, and in the 3rd round he was already openly limping and kept only his willpower.
The hall screamed, whistled and clapped, everything is as usual on such battles. During the award ceremony, Emelyanenko won, of course, all sank slightly, and then again slammed joyfully. At first, the appearance of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, known to the fans with his love for such events, was also calmly accepted in the ring. But as soon as the premiere took a microphone and say: “Dear friends, today all lovers of martial arts ...”-as the gallery exploded with a whistle and screams “F-U-U-B-B-U”.
Pyrrhic victory
The duel between Emelianenko and Montson in the ring of Olympic was supposed to solve several problems at once. Firstly, put an end to a series of defeats, which have recently been pursued by Emelyanenko. Secondly, bring the organizers *** the promotional company M-1, among the owners-the son of Valentina Matvienko Sergey. A fair amount - battles without rules of this level in Russia are rare and are very popular. The 20,000th hall, according to eyewitnesses-the correspondent of The New Times was one of them-was scored to capacity. And this despite the fact that the VIP there cost more than 70 thousand rubles, and the first rows-near Putin, singer Valeria, the Ingush President Yunus-Bek Evkurov, they say, they were completely filed for the crazy 200 thousand. And finally, this evening was supposed to serve the next advertisement of “United Russia”, in which Emelianenko has been listed since 2010, and why it would still be itself The Prime Minister helped in organizing a fight, as his spokeswoman Dmitry Peskov recognized him.
The popularity of the mixfight in Russia is the merit of Fedor Emelianenko. Starting to perform in 2000, this sambo player broke world heavyweights one by one. In the middle of the zero, it suddenly found that Fedor is an idol in Japan, South Korea, the USA, and in Russia only a few specialists knew about it. And when the mixfight came to Russian television, they spun it in conjunction with Emelianenko. Vladimir Putin began to appear on fights. But since 2010, already in the status of a deputy of the Belgorod Regional Duma from United Russia, Fedor lost 3 fights in a row. They say he wanted to leave, but his name has already become a popular brand, part of a serious business. The victory over Montson - but no one was waiting for another - was to wash away the shame of the defeats. But the battle turned out to be dull and dull, Montson almost never managed to get Fedor, and when the referee raised his hand of a clean, unstable Emelianenko, and a bloodied American, hardly stepping on a broken leg, licked to the exit, supported by seconds, the audience rejoiced and applauded only that her favorite could still. Just as the football fans of the Russian national team in a friendly match with Andorra would be happy.
And then Putin rose to the ring-to congratulate the winner. The stands at first perceived this normally. “But why did he grab the microphone? - Kirill is surprised (he asked not to give his last name), the devoted fan of Emelyanenko, and shrugs: - What should we listen to him? They didn’t come for that. ” The New Times correspondent, sitting in the upper row, testifies: it was the prime minister who boasted. The flash mob began on a gallery where tickets could be reached and where numerous anarcho-antifacists came, including Monson, the icon of this movement. But the whistle of the “upper reaches” was joined by the entire 20,000th stadium, scored by 25–45-year-old men who paid several thousand and tens of thousands of rubles for a ticket. Such are easy to meet in some prestigious cafe in the city center next to a well-groomed blonde. They have always been those whom Putin was primarily oriented to: at least they are united by a passion for battles without rules. And not only in the stadium. Why are they whistling? Because he, Putin, says the interlocutor, "every day he looks at you from the screen." “The general mood can be expressed in one word - tired. Putin, Putin everywhere. He also began to speak. This is already causing rejection, ”says Nationalist Yevgeny Valyaev, a fan of the mixfight.
Academic fools
The prime minister, we must pay tribute to him, pretended that he did not notice the reaction of the audience, and even very quickly, he cheerfully finished his speech. But when, refuting bloggers, Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov began to certify journalists that they actually booed the defeated Jeff Monson, and not his chef, history entered the hits of the blogosphere. The fans present in the duel bombarded the Monson page on Facebook by thousands of compliments and posts with the words of support: “Jeff is an excellent, strong fighter. Let us not hurt for him, but to boast - not in our rules, ”the fan of Fedor Emelianenko Kirill is indignant. “Monson withstood a difficult battle to the end. And on my rostrum at the end of the 3rd round, after the battle was stopped because of the blood that whipped with Monson, some even shouted: “Come on, Jeff! Fight to the end! " And I also escorted him from the ring with applause, ”says Evgeny Valyaev.
“Respect for Snowman ***“ Respect to the Snow Man ” - Monson’s fighting pseudonym., Boo for Putin,” Russian fans of battles without rules on the American page. “It seems that Monson, having lost, acquired more fans than if he had won. Monson - We are with you !!! " - The Facebook user aslan Chechensky states. “The Press Service of GDP humiliated the Russians to the whole world, suggesting that the great fighter was an obstacle to the audience,” writes Anton Shanin. “They expose us by cattle! It’s good that we did not allow Jeff to think about ourselves! ” - supports him Alexander Menshikov.
The press secretary of the Prochrevsky movement “Our” Christina Poddrak found her explanation to the unlawful whistle of the stands: “All the local exclamations of“ Fu-U-U-U ”were most likely associated with the moronic organization and exits to the Olympic,” she wrote on her blog. “We tried to enter the whole hour there, and this is without Putin and his protection, and it was impossible to get out when Putin began to speak (thanks to the guard again), so some of the 22 thousand beer of the blades began to protest against the impossibility of emptying them.” However, the correspondent of The New Times, who was at that time, says that this statement of the speaker of “ours” at least does not correspond to the neighbors in his stand, from where the whistle began: no one was going to go anywhere in these first minutes after the end of the battle - everyone was waiting for the winner awarding.
Politics of whistle *
After a scandalous discussion of events in the Olympic, Vladimir Putin did not arrive at a concert in a sports complex under the name “Boys, you don’t need it” - they say that he himself came up with this name. And on the eve of November 21, it became known about the abolition of his “direct line” with the people, which was supposed to go to the last decade of November, as a shock PR action right before the elections. On November 23, after a speech in the State Duma, where the prime minister came to say goodbye to the deputies of the current convocation, he did not go to reporters.
Political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky considers booing on battles without rules unkind for the prime minister. “The whistle and screaming were recently tuned to Putin loyally. Moreover, Fedor Emelianenko embodied a symbol of Putin's Russia, rising from his knees. Such a reaction indicates the delegate of the prime minister as a ruler, about the fatigue of people from the regime. Putin is now perceived as the leader of the corrupt clan. A whistle is a sign of perestroika, ”the political scientist believes.
The “fight with a whistle” even influenced the behavior of parliamentarians: when the prime minister entered the plenary session always so loyal State Duma, a number of deputies defiantly did not stand up. De, tea is not a king. Parliamentarians did not hide that their demarche was quite conscious. And a member of the Fair Russia faction Ilya Ponomarev in his microblog on Twitter even complained that he had not taken a whistle to the Duma.