Twisted grass syndrome

What does the president say and what he is not talking

“Unfortunately, I can’t visit wherever I want. Somewhere they paint the grass for my arrival, and somewhere, as, for example, where I was now, nothing is impossible to paint. There are no shores from the helicopter. Even if someone wanted to paint something, then there will not be enough colors ... ”Vladimir Putin said this on September 4 at a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights. He said upon returning from the Far East, where he saw the consequences of the flood with his own eyes - and was shocked. To such an extent that he immediately fired his plenipotentiary in the region of Viktor Ishaev. Putin, is he - was in ignorance? By that time, the disaster in the Far East and in Primorye had lasted more than a month. In June, during a distress in the eastern in the east of Germany, Chancellor Merkel visited flooded areas three times - including so that no one dare to lie about the course of rescue work. Our president, when Khabarovsk flooded, opened the Bayker Surgeon Fountain Barmaley in Volgograd. All the vertical he rebelled about floods, most likely, lied - “his” ministers, “his” envoy and governors, “his” television, “his” assistants and advisers. This became absolutely clear when the president said to members of the HRC: you do not varnish for me and this is “plus”, “... That's why I asked you to gather in such a council that there is an opportunity to hear how the situation is formed in those places, or there are no people whose opinion I trust.”

But the meeting soon ended. And the president again returned to the reality, which the “his” vertical carefully simulated specifically for him.

In the arms of the vertical

In the life of any statesman there are two truly serious tests for sanity: elections and war. Everything else is routine and dirt. To such an extent that Winston Churchill allowed himself to spend most of the day in bed. When an hour of testing comes, the iron principle comes into force in politics - to stand with two legs on Earth, to behave honestly and responsibly.

Now such a moment has come for Putin.

Firstly, for the first time in many years, elections are held in Russia, where in a number of cases there is really something to choose from: Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Yaroslavl, Voronezh ...

Secondly, for the first time in the last two decades before Russia, the probability of being linked to one or another in a large-scale military conflict has really looted. This is Syria.

How does the president react to these challenges? He is still in the same information capsule that the vertical built for him.

September 3, interview with the first channel and Associated Press. (Ether - September 4.) This is about the Moscow elections. And we hear from the lips of the president: “In all sociological surveys, the acting mayor of Moscow Sergey Semenovich Sobyanin is the leader, I don’t remember how much, for 60 percent, in my opinion.” (Before the elections, for a minute, for five days, to voice the results of hundreds of questions is already prohibited by electoral law.) “Moreover, such numbers give research on a variety of independent sociologists,” the president continues.

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All the vertical he rebelled about floods, most likely, lied - “his” ministers, “his” envoy and governors, “his” television, “his” assistants and advisers

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In fact, 60.1 % Sobyanin gives (data for September 1) only Synnovate Comcon, all the rest-by four to five points less. But Putin does not pay attention to this. He - campaigns: “He (Sobyanin) is a very experienced person, calm, he is not very public, to a certain extent even silent. I love such people. He speaks less, does more. It seemed to me that people felt it ... "

Agitation goes through the most massive and reliable channel of information. The whole world is observed in the intervention of the president in the course of the election campaign. “The president answered the question,” the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov tried to justify his chief. Stop! But the question (although not very successfully formulated by the AP correspondent) was not at all about Sobyanin, but about his main competitor: “Will it become correct if he (Navalny) will become the mayor of the capital?” No one gave the reason to agitate.

But Putin was already carried away. “After all, where this gentleman (Navalny) does not appear, there he always monitors, as we say, there is always some problem with him: then alcohol, they say, or the alcohol factory dragged there, then with the forest there were some problems, then he found companies abroad, he did not declare them ... But to saddle the fashion topic of combating corruption-this does not mean to control the city of 12 million corruption. "

Whatever the passage is not true. When the Urzhum alcohol plant in the Kirov region was privatized, Navalny was at Yale University, the USA. And when they only wanted, he opposed. The fact that the case of Kirovles does not have an economic justification and de facto cancels capitalism in Russia, only the lazy did not write, and the verdict itself has not yet entered into force-a cassation ahead. Nickname - in the plural - Navalny does not have; We searched for a long time and stubbornly: they found one in Montenegro, and that invalid. But someone put this textured Putin? And the guarantor of the rights and freedoms of all Russians did not consider it shameful for himself to first attach for his candidate, and then mock the mud of the one who is in his opposition. Does the president understand what he is doing? Or is he already in the astral - where reality does not intersect with the idea of ​​her that his environment presents Putin?

To the question of "al-Qaeda"

We move on. On September 4, Vladimir Putin mentioned at a meeting of the HRC under the President about the debate in the US Congress on the application of force in Syria (see p. 22): “The congressman asks Mr. Kerry: is there (in Syria)“ al-Qaeda ”? They say they intensified? " - "No. I say responsibly: they are not there ”... and further:“ The most basic combat link is the so-called “al-Nusra”, the al-Qaeda unit. They (Americans) know about it. It’s just that I was not even very pleased, it can be seen ... We communicate with them, we proceed from the fact that these are decent people. Well, lies (Kerry). And he knows that he is lying. It's sad. "

In fact, another is sad. During the debate on September 3, there was neither such a question nor such an answer in the Senate (others at that time). The author specially studied the transcript of that meeting in search of at least something similar. Here Senator Johnson asks Kerry: “It seems that at the very beginning the opposition was more oriented to the West, was more moderate, more democratic, but over time it began to decompose, al-Qaeda elements began to penetrate into it. This is true?" “No, this is not true, this is not true ...” - Kerry replies before telling the meetings of the leader of the Syrian opposition, the former deputy of the National Assembly of France, Christian Georges Saber in Berlin and London. And a little later, Kerry still clarifies: “There are groups there are worse than“ An-Nusra ”. And they are mainly in the north and east, ”Kerry said.

If you are dishonestly drowning political opponents within the country, then do not try to play the peacekeeper in the external arena after that - no one will believe you

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As they say, feel the difference.

The word of the president of Russia is not a sparrow or even a crow. But it flew out: "Well, he is lying." And after a strange coincidence, a few hours later it becomes known: Kerry will not come to the “twenty” summit in St. Petersburg, although his participation in the working breakfast of the heads of the Foreign Ministry on September 6 was planned.

In fact, many in Russia and beyond are well aware of, which Navalny is actually to blame for the Russian authorities. And they well understand the difference between Assad, “An-Nusra” and Georges Saber. But this is not even the point.

The fact is that there is a textbook relationship between domestic and foreign policy. If you are dishonestly drowning political opponents within the country, then do not try to perform a peacemaker in the external arena after that - no one will believe you. Moral authority is not enough. Therefore, after all, at one time, they did not believe the “main fighter for peace” by Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev that the dissenters were sitting in the psychiatric hospital.

Loyal Pushkin

“The president is stuffed with information,” one of the colleague close to the body, not without Paphos, told the author of these lines. Who would doubt - Putin knows a lot of things. How he uses this knowledge, what is the quality of this information, how much the president is addicted to the encryptions and wiretaps that people in uniform bring him - this is the question.

Justifying the law adopted by the State Duma on the prohibition of the propaganda of homosexuality, Putin resorts to his beloved argument - "themselves." “You know, for example, that in some states (in the USA), unconventional sexual orientation is still recognized as a criminal offense. In particular, in Oklahom, as I was told, in Texas? ” He asks the correspondent of Associated Press. What is interesting: formally Putin is right, and even more so - not in two, but in the four states there are still archaic laws on the prohibition of sodomy. But back in the 90s, the US Supreme Court made a definition that all legislative acts discriminated by sexual minorities contradict the US Constitution. This means that none of these laws can be (and has never been!) Applied as violating the norms of federal legislation.

Those who told Putin about Oklahom and Texas forgot to tell him about the Supreme Court,

True, in one place of this big interview, Putin gives an accurate and competent quote. This is generally a very interesting episode, when the president, “a pragmatist with a conservative bias,” as he himself - it seems, for the first time in his career - named, begins to talk on the subject of the loyalty and ill -fingers of the elites. This is a quote from Pushkin: "We have a lot of people who are in opposition not to the government, but to Russia." This oral statement of the poet gives the Decembrist Mukhanov in his diary - however, Pushkin spoke of "embittered people." Having quoted, Putin added: "Unfortunately, our intelligentsia has such a tradition."

Who would doubt - Putin knows a lot of things. How he uses this knowledge that people bring him in uniform - this is the question

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The subtext is clear: even the freedom -loving Pushkin, who was friends with the Decembrists, recognized the need for loyalty, and the state eventually destroys the state, as happened in 1917 and 1991. But there is also another Pushkin. It is impossible not to remember about him when Putin in an interview begins to talk about Ukraine: “... wherever Ukraine goes, we will meet somewhere anyway. Why? Because we are one people ... Because we have one Dnieper Kiev font, we certainly have common historical roots and common destinies ” - and much more in common. Everything is very touching and tender.

But there is a difference about which Pushkin wrote to Chaadaev almost two centuries ago: “We took the gospel and traditions, and not the spirit of childhood and disputes. The customs of Byzantium have never been the mores of Kyiv. ” Pushkin did not agree with a friend that the Byzantine humility of the closed irreplaceable power is the essence of the Russian national spirit.

So, in Kyiv now - disputes again: where to look for raw materials import substitution - either in the West, or in the East? And they argue because the counterpart “according to the common Dnieper font” broke the highest gas prices in Europe and does not want to give in. It does not want to - because Russia itself goes just in a different, Byzantine direction. And Putin needs another Pushkin - the one that will help him stay in reality invented for him - with painted grass.

Photos: Alexey Druzhinin/RIA Novosti