And on Valdai - boring weather

The next meeting of the participants in the Valdai International Discussion Club with Vladimir Putin, who held on October 25, seemed boring to the long -standing member of the club Nikolai Zlobin: “None of the guests went to confrontation. Putin was sitting in the lecturer's position all the time. The format is clearly unsuccessful. " Although, the political scientist specified, "they fed deliciously, as always."

Actually, if quite frankly, everything was as always. Putin, as always, was late - some say for one and a half, others - for three hours, as always, the “discussion” resulted in the genre of an instructive presidential monologue, and, as always, those present did not dare to cut off the long thread of the presidential thought with too sharp questions.

But the background of the meeting was "not as always." The country broke in the peak of political repressions: “Swamp business”, Pussy Riot, the story of Leonid Razvozzhaev ... It is not by chance that the organizers cunningly reoriented the agenda for the economy’s questions this year.

Really, it was necessary to have either a servant attitude towards the owner of the meeting in a special way, or too good appetite, so that in all her time to ask Putin only one question on the anger of the day: “What signal sends power to society, putting girls from Pussy Riot to prison?” The little -known editor of the Reuters agency set him. Matra of political science - they were not found what to ask. Boredom was overwhelmed.

Are you really bored, gentlemen? Well, excuse me, the Kremlin has no other president and another agenda today. But, as always, there is almost the most expensive hotel in Moscow, a transfer of the highest category, as always, delicious food. So choose: either a serious real discussion, or Sevryuzhin with horseradish or what else was on the table ... However, there is one reliable, proven way to avoid boredom - not to participate in the pompous Kremlin special matters. No matter what delicious sauce they are served.