: The secret of the health of the nation

Putin is still sick. Only now citizens do not yet know about this, although they would like. Citizens, unlike foreign heads of states, were not considered necessary to notify. Rather, they considered it necessary to conceal any information about this. According to the authorities, there can be no “weak Putin”, because this is the undermining of the authority of the “leader of the nation”.

Where does the average citizen of Russia can find out what is happening in the life of the popularly elected President of Russia? Of course from some foreign source. The Bulgarian site reports that Putin had a grandson , the mayor of the Greek island Santorin says that Putin’s eldest daughter Masha is married to the island, the South Korean edition of Korea Joongang Daily “betrays” the youngest daughter Katya for the son of a former employee of the embassy of this country in Moscow. This is all the news of the last years that the average Russian became known about thanks to foreign, but not domestic media, although the whole pool of journalists accompanies Vladimir Vladimirovich on all trips.

The news of today's day: the Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda told the degree and the world, and above all to Russian citizens who was forced to postpone his visit to Russia "because of the poor health of Russian President Vladimir Putin." On the issue of Putin's illness, of course, the Japanese prime minister is more knowledgeable, say, the premiere of Russian, with whom Putin had an effective tandem. A couple of days ago, the Belarusian President Lukashenko spoke about Putin's problems with the back.

I must say that in this case, the Japanese prime minister did not give out an exclusive. The fact that Putin’s back hurts and because of this his international visits are postponed, a Reuters agency reported a month ago. However, again, not “Channel One” and not ITAR-TASS.

ITAR-TASS is also in the matter: it is already broadcasting the Kremlin’s official position in the person of the Putin press secretary Dmitry Peskov. Which is sluggishly shook , they say, the visit of the Japanese colleague of Putin could take place in November and in December. Nevertheless, it would happen in January, and no one had known the exact date before, since the deadlines were not yet agreed. It gives a cheap “excitement”, since previously approximately the same argument was used to explain the abolition of visits to India and Turkmenistan, and everything was agreed there and in terms of time. Putin does not have international visits in the last two months and without the need to even receive foreign guests, as practice shows, is postponed. Therefore, the president’s schedule really “went” by virtue of Putin's personal will, which are beyond the power of Putin’s personal will. The disease as a cause (back or not back) is quite suitable. And since the Japanese confirm, there is no need to lie to them, therefore, really, is true.

It is clear why the personal life of the Russian president is an important information occasion for foreigners. For Japan and South Korea, Moscow remains one of the sources of influence on Pyongyang, for Japan, Russia is also an important domestic political theme in the light of the “problems of the northern territories”. For Reuters and their subscribers around the world, Putin’s health is a risk factor that can affect the stock courses of Russian companies and the future investment in the Russian economy. For the mayor of Santorin - the resort quite expensive by the Greek standards - the wedding of the daughter of the Russian president looks an excellent advertisement to attract a wealthy public from Russia.

The president’s personal affairs are also concerned about our citizens, only who will inform them of this. Peskov refutes everything, on TV about Putin’s life outside work - not a half -word. So almost half of the Russians are sure that the health of the “father of the nation” is excellent. So he believes, if you rely on the data of the Fresh Poll of the Levada Center, 40 percent of the respondents (5 percent believes that Putin’s health is “very good”, another 35 - that is simply “good”). The opposite point of view adheres to 4 percent of Russians, the number of Putin’s health considers it very bad almost equal to zero.

A request for information about the state of health of the “national leader” has-46 percent of Levada Center respondents are confident that citizens should receive “complete and objective information” about the health of the president (supporters of Privacy ideas-38 percent). The confidence of the Russians is not divided by the authorities. All information about the personal life of the country's leadership is filtered and reaches a small part of the population only in the form of extremely contradictory rumors, which are not possible and which are consistently refuted in official comments.

About the health of the “father of the peoples” of Comrade Stalin, Soviet radio during his illness reported every day. The whole country knew about the operation of Yeltsin, although the president’s state was not specified (then the well -known euphemism “The President works with documents” was born). Putin and his environment does not allow himself even such luxury. The point is both in the closeness of the Russian president himself, and in the confidence of his and his environment, that only he guarantees the stability and controllability of the country in general and power clans in particular.

If Putin is weak, this is the go -ahead that you can pay less attention to its factor, the start of intrigues about successors and quite specific conspiracies against the current environment of the president. And inside the environment against each other. A wide publicity will also seriously damage Putin’s image, as an almost omnipotent and invulnerable politician who easily crashes with opponents. What Putin can be a threat to the presumptuous officials and our wealth of the insidious West, if he could barely walk?

The faithful Putin does not want to take risks. They were not seated for that for 12 years on large assets and important Kremlin and government offices, so that the population would make claims to the leader, and they themselves were shifted by yesterday's subordinates and competitors in hardware wars.