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Report with a press conference of the President

1319 accredited journalists, 52 questions, 4 hours 3 minutes-this was not the longest, but, of course, the most boring press conference of Vladimir Putin. And her main sensation broke out after it ended. How was it - The New Times report

The ninth press conference of Vladimir Putin took place on December 19, 2013 at the Center for International Trade, Moscow

"And where are you going?" - almost gently asked the correspondent of The New Times a man in a suit with a badge on a red lace with the inscription "Safety". Similar to Daniel Craig in the role of agent 007, he resolutely blocked the approaches to the first rows of the hall. "I want to take a closer place, can I?" - “Everything is reserved. See, are the signs lying "reserve"? " On chairs with blue upholstery in the first two rows, there really were white leaves with a large inscription "Reserve". “What publication are you from? Show your badge, ”the guard demanded. One glance at the yellow accreditation card was enough for him: “No, you are not going through. You do not have a special mark here - the letter "A".

Their own and strangers

Elena Milchanovsk from the Orthodox newspaper told Vladimir Putin that she had recently married, and complained that it was difficult to find money for New Year's corporate parties to print media

Passing journalists to the hall on the second floor of the Center for International Trade on the Krasnopresnenskaya embankment, where a press conference was held, became two hours before the start, at about 10 in the morning. But the polite intelligent queue in one second turned into a streaming crowd, it was only worth the organizers to open the doors. In the hall, conflicts flashed here here.

“Where are you from here? Why are you sitting in my place? I was the first to take it! " - shouted a dark -skinned man with a beard and a foreign accent, towering over a calm elderly lady in glasses, who sat down in the second row with such a look that it was clear: she would hold this line to the end. "You ... you ... you sat on my iPad!" - the man soared. "What? What did I sit on? I know nothing. "

What does the cherished letter “A” mean on accreditation certificates could not be found out. But everything became clear when Putin was taken by those who were taken by those who were supposed to be: Alexander Yunashev from Lifenews, Elena Milchanovsk from the Interlocutor, Andrei Tumanov from the newspaper “6 acres”, Sergey Brilev from Russia 1, Diana Khachatryan from Novaya Gazeta, as well as Reuters and RIA Novosti: they managed to ask their questions to the president.

Petitions

The president initially behaved strangely: usually he speaks smoothly and confidently, and then he was getting lost, he said uncounting separate words. As if he had just left the dentist and had not yet moved away from anesthesia. Or something tormented him-the way the unresolved problem torments a person, the answer to which must be given here and now. His spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who was sitting next to the department, seemed to look at the chef with concern. But soon Putin caught a familiar wave - he spoke imperiously, calmly, began to let go of jokes and tease journalists.

Among the latter, the messengers of the regions who acted as a united petition were especially distinguished. With each new question, the feeling of the feeling that not journalists gathered from all over the country, but representatives of local administrations - to ask and thank.

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Vladimir Putin: “I do not believe that riot police beat the girl like that. I just can't imagine this to myself "

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Natalya Smolyaninova from the Ryazansky television company, penetratedly thanked the president for the fact that they had finally opened the road in their field for more than ten years: “If it weren’t for your help, Vladimir Vladimirovich, it seems to me that we would not have seen for a long time.”

Nikolai Zusik (Omsk, “12th Canal”) complained that the local authorities promised to build a metro in Omsk last year. And hesitatively added: "At this place, apparently, I have to ask for money, but I will not."

Maria Solovyenko from the Vladivostok newspaper "People’s Veche" (the same one who called Vladimir Putin Vova at the 2012 press conference) asked the president to become "lifelong", followed by the "shoulder of the story" so that "all these Abramovichi, Prokhorovs" allocated 20 million rubles for a tomograph for the medical center. “Or shake this gang of the Ministry of Defense,” she added.

But the real benefit happened to Tatyana Sedykh, the editor of the newspaper My Coast from the village of Vanino of the Khabarovsk Territory. At first she complained that the FSO officers did not let her into the hall with crutches. Then she said that she had to spend two of her pensions on the road to Moscow. Then she spoke about the difficult environmental situation, about the reductions in the Vaninsky Sea Port, about the plight of the local forestry enterprise ... One pulled the other, the third - the third, and the troubles of the village of Vanino collapsed into the head of state in a continuous stream: Sedykh told in detail about the poor work of law enforcement agencies, about the small budget and that the gaming center could not build a gaming center in the village For children. A powerful final chord was the story about the “boiler rooms of diesel engines”, which is no longer possible to retell.

With all the petitioners, Vladimir Putin was affectionate, reassured everyone, even promised someone. And to the village of Vanino, the Minister of the Interior Vladimir Kolokoltsev suddenly sent a group from the central apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, about which Dmitry Peskov solemnly announced closer to the end of the event. They can, when they want!

Vladimir Putin does not believe that this happens. Detention of protesters on Kudrinskaya Square in Moscow, May 16, 2012

Unpleasant questions

There were catastrophically few urgent questions at this press conference. Not like last year, when journalists courageously arranged a real “trolling” to the president, asking questions about the “Law of Dima Yakovlev” one after another, which Putin was just going to sign.

Alexei Anishchuk from Reuters asked about Pussy Riot - does the president admit that the punishment was excessive, since the girls are now being released on an amnesty? Putin answered with contempt that their shocking was humiliated by the dignity of women, but he sorry for them.

Natalya Galimova from Gazeta.Ru asked about the “swamp business”, saying that there were no mass riots on May 6, 2012 according to the results of the public investigation. And there were illegal use of violence by police and self -defense by the protesters. Why not free of the amnesty of all “swamp prisoners”? Putin traditionally replied that the court would figure it out.

Although the question was clearly angry with him. He harshly added that it is unacceptable to allow anyone to treat law enforcement officers to be unacceptable, otherwise “complete chaos” will begin: “It is easy to present a situation where representatives of other political groups go outside-let's say, nationalists-and this liberal intelligentsia will begin to thresh. Then she will tell us the police: “The guard! Lie up, huge! (Save, citizens (Ukrainian). - The New Times). " And the police will say: "No, now you yourself save yourself, because the law does not protect us."

A good addition to this topic happened thanks to Ekaterina Vinokurova from Znak.com: “Vladimir Vladimirovich, if in your eyes an riot police beats a girl that you, as a man, if there is no Dmitry Sergeyevich (Peskova), FSO, would do?”

Then it suddenly turned out that Putin’s imagination was not capable of this: “I do not believe that the riot police beat the girl like that. I just can't imagine this. I know riot police, I met with them repeatedly and in combat conditions. These are people who regularly go under bullets and risk life. They have their own families, their children, their wives, sisters and mothers <...> there is absolutely no need to beat the girl. ” Well, it is easy to understand why the picture of the world of Vladimir Putin is so strongly divorced from reality - he simply has never been at a rally of protest in Moscow. And to watch pictures on the Internet, on which riot police are dragging by the hair, hit their feet and so on - this, as you know, is not in its part: he considers the Internet a garbage basket.

They asked Putin (Novaya Gazeta journalist) and about the probability of the “third case of Yukos” - he said that he did not delve into the details, but he does not see “special prospects” with this business. Finally, the reporter from the American Bloomberg also mentioned the “Law of Dima Yakovlev”-they say, several orphans who did not leave for America died here in Russia (read on page 68). But then the president answered briefly and very in his own and Soviet (“And they are lying down!”) The style: “Have you forgotten that some children who were adopted in the United States also died?”

Sensation

The entire press conference can be divided into two parts. To whom to give the microphone - Dmitry Peskov, who personally familiar with many federal media reporters, decided for the first two hours. Basically, he asked them. Before Peskov, apparently, there was a cot - who is sitting where. Putin himself chose the second half of the journalists' event - he intercepted the initiative from Peskov, carried away by the soft toys that some media representatives held in their hands: at first he noted the girl with a giant yeti (she called it the Kuzbass tourist talisman), then the correspondent of the “interlocutor” with the white Mishka (this is one of the talismans of the composition of the composition of the Olympiad). Putin more willingly gave the floor to reporters from the regions or chose those who are familiar to him in the face - like Sergei Loiko from Los Angeles Times, who last year almost pushed him out of himself about the case of Sergei Magnitsky. Naturally, he did not forget the “special detachment”, and it seemed that Putin was holding the whole drama of the show in his head: there is a little sharp, then a pivoting and asking person, then a little international-two journalists who worked on the media Iran received an opportunity to ask a question, then a little more questions from the series “We love you and you all, then you can see everything again: all the same, so that everyone is stubborn. Our president - a cool man and does not give his resentment, at the end - unpleasant, but mandatory, so that there was something to quote international media - the “case of Yukos”, for example.

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 *What happened before - no one remembered. The media of the world gave lightning: Putin is Milo Khodorkovsky*

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The rest of the journalists fought for the president’s attention in the only way they available - in a word oral and written. Provocative posters like "Astrakhan. I have DR ”and“ never got married ”arose here and there. There were completely hopeless ones (“Sergius of Radonezh. 700 years”) or disturbing: “Children. Food". And the editor-in-chief of “6 acres” of fogs, who has already a long history of relations with Putin (he is given the opportunity to ask a question at each press conference), sat with a home-made poster “6 acres. The last time ... ”I asked a question-in the sense of asking something that Putin had already promised him, but bad officials were launched by a barrel. "Who exactly?" - Putin sought, demanding the names. “The Ministry of Regional Development,” the requester finally passed.

Under the curtain, Putin congratulated the journalists on the New Year and went down from the stage. He was immediately surrounded by a crowd of Fesseos. And here - oh, the inescapable "piano in the bushes" - near Putin was the correspondent of Lifenews. Is it necessary to understand that Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who did not fall under any amnesty, will remain to sit to the end, asked the journalist, who had previously asked the president a question about whether Putin’s government would dissolve and whether Medvedev’s hope will become a successor again.

And suddenly the president stopped along with his entire guard and, standing in the FSO ring, said: “Mikhail Borisovich had to write the appropriate paper in accordance with the law - a petition for pardon. He did not. But more recently, he wrote such a paper and addressed me with a petition for pardon. He has already spent more than ten years in places of imprisonment, this is a serious punishment. He refers to humanitarian circumstances: his mother is sick. I believe that, referring to all these circumstances, you can make an appropriate decision, and in the near future a decree on its pardon will be signed. ” The sensation took place. What happened before - no one remembered. The media of the world gave lightning: Putin is drawing Khodorkovsky.

The president pretended to be so, a passing question (asked on the run - answered on the run), there is no serious attention - and quickly left. The gun fired. Curtain.

Photos: RIA Novosti