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Part in the mosaic
In the Kremlin
Part in the mosaic
January 29, 2013 Viktor Shenderovich
The inconspicuous date of recent history: exactly a dozen years ago, on January 29, 2001, we, eleven journalists independent at that time of the NTV television company, came to the Kremlin, to the old man Drada, at that time-a novice Draco ...
Time is an honest person, as said by Bomarsha. A couple of months later, coming from a common escalator, these eleven people diverged in their directions, and almost nothing connects them, federal employees, Gazprom's nomenclature, marginal journalists, “stars” of Russian and Ukrainian television - and just people ...
And only the old man Drada-what he was, so remained, only brutalized additionally. And at that time, that day, he was quiet and correct, and with some even sadly, he patiently explained to us, the messages that he could not help us with anything, well, “a dispute between business entities” ...
I talked about this more than once and would not remember again, but, you want to believe it, you want no, just yesterday, on the eve of the next anniversary, the wind of history brought to my ears a new marvelous evidence of the Putin’s “equidistance” of those times.
It was a plane flying to the Far East. Putin called Ram Vyakhirev. The neighbor Vyakhirev, who told this story (not to me, but the world is cramped), claims that Ram Ivanovich returned to his chair ... How to say ... even less growth - and in the attack of some parkinsonism.
I was shaking all, speaking in Russian.
And muttered: I'm afraid of him ... I'm afraid of him ...
And having come to his senses, he in a whisper voiced his neighbor (and to this day to the important Putin official) is simple the essence of short communication with the new president of Russia.
“If you don’t take the NTV in the Gusinsky campaign,” the old man Drada told him, “I will tear you, bastard.”
Everyone, of course, is Stanislavsky to himself, but for some reason I believe!