Bargaining is inappropriate

Because Putin is the first in the world, I, as a citizen of a country that has such a president, should feel a sense of pride and respect for my leader.

I don't feel it. For some reason it doesn't work.

Why? I'm trying to figure it out.

Here, for example, is the case of the great Gerard Depardieu.

The artist was offended in his homeland, in France, and he applied for Russian citizenship. And our president immediately gave him a decree - they say, here is a document for you, Gerard - now you are a Russian.

Everything turned out very simple and fast. And beautiful. At first glance.

It is clear that a world-famous artist will never live in Russia, will not learn the Russian language and will not be able to work for the benefit of his new homeland. And if you don’t like something in the Russian order, then you can refuse - it’s a simple matter.

It’s just that chance turned up, and our diplomats, with the support of the president, decided in this way to correct the country’s image, which had been damaged over the past year in the eyes of the civilized world.

I can't vouch for the West. In my eyes, the image has not improved.

It's all about a girl who lives in the small town of Belaya Kholunitsa, Kirov region. Her name is Oksana Savelyeva.

She is Russian, a highly qualified specialist, and will never leave Russia, although it is very difficult for her here.

Oksana spent four years trying to become a Russian citizen. Born in the USSR. As a child, my parents left for Ukraine. There she grew up, graduated from college, and began to engage in scientific activities.

A native speaker, Russian, smart, talented girl went through all the thorns of our migration casuistry to become a citizen of the country that she considers her homeland.

I am a native of St. Petersburg, who returned to the Russian outback, which I consider my small Motherland and without which I really cannot live normally, even if its spiteful critics and sympathizers call it a region at least three times dying and dying out. Returning from a metropolis, where living conditions and wages were much better. Although at a certain stage of life you understand that this is no longer the main thing and cannot outweigh the craving for... your intangible values.

And in a couple of days, Putin gave such “happiness” to a French citizen who, for selfish reasons, decided to change his place of residence and citizenship.

He will never become Russian. And he won't want to. Gerard Depardieu has always been and will be French. But he received the passport on a silver platter with respect and respect.

And Oksana extracted this passport from Russian bureaucrats at the cost of losing time, nerves, dignity and a lot of money.

The rule “everything is one’s own is a foreigner’s law” applies. It’s not hard to guess who the strangers are.

Why respect such a president? What to be proud of?

For a PR campaign, where a passport is exchanged for a preferential tax regime?

It was an unequal exchange. And they don’t trade their homeland in polite society.