Award system

Vladimir Vladimirovich loves detailed answers, but answered this question with unexpected dryness. Journalist Igor Arkhipov during the December press conference asked the guarantor whether Dmitry Kiselev had to be put at the head of the state corporation, busy with the propaganda of the Russian image abroad, taking into account the catastrophic image of the appointment. The question was backed up by a rather accurate metaphor: they say, Kiselev’s author’s comments about the events in Ukraine - "it is as if news about America is showing in North Korea."

Putin responded with three phrases. “I want to tell you,” he told URBI et orbi, “that state information resources should be headed by patriotically configured people who protect the interests of the Russian Federation. These are state resources. That will be exactly what will happen.”

It was a historical minute.

Moreover, the pathetic of the moment was not only that the general director of Russia Today was called a patriot, that is, he was awarded the highest praise from the highest lips. In the president’s voice, as soon as he spoke on a given topic, some special note sounded. So briefly, reluctantly, assertively, people answer when they are asked about the most expensive. So protect relatives and friends. When they were offended, but I want to hide the insult.

Without entering into a discussion with a journalist, Putin made it clear that Kiselev was not just a patriot for him, but a patriot is exemplary. The perfect frame. And so it is necessary to defend the "interests of the Russian Federation", as the host of "Vesti" does.

The above does not mean that the president certainly and unconditionally like the style of the presentation of the host, all this wild theater, false classical gestures and running around the studio. Kiselev’s painful interest in non -traditional sexual topics with a frog tint and gleam of bonfires also hardly contributed to his career success. “Putin and gays” is generally a mysterious plot, and here they and the general director may even have stylistic disagreements, like the writer Sinyavsky with the Soviet regime. Putin's personnel love for Kiselev has a different basis.

They have general ideas about Russia as a state surrounded by enemies from all sides. They have common enemies. I believe that Vladimir Vladimirovich is in the same way from hatred when he thinks about Russian opposition, about the Maidan, about Europe, about America.

Nevertheless, with all his, as it were, emancipation, Putin is forced to restrain himself, because no one canceled the rules of the game in politics.

However, no one has canceled freedom of speech, which is why propagandists like Mamontov, Semin, Leontiev and Kiselev, who are now nominated to the leaders, are so noticeable on the guestelekanals. For the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, albeit IV degree, is not just a cash prize from gas bins, not a position in Rosneft, not unimportant Tsatsk for the holiday, in the crowd of suffering and distinguished. This is the state award of the highest sample, which was presented just for the fact that the Order of the Complex allows himself not to restrain himself and to agree to the end everything that the authorities are on his mind. This is a serious tsatsk.

At the same time, this, of course, is a political signal. Not just a sign of approval, expressed by Putin in relation to his beloved journalist, but also a rigidly declared course. All you wanted to know about the era, about the past of our homeland and, most importantly, about its future, in the minted lines of the decree . This is a course for mobilization, if you avoid template, albeit suggestive words and expressions such as "fascism", "Goebbels", "total propaganda war" and some others, no worse, but for some reason forbidden to use in the press.

And not that, having learned about the awarding of Kiselev and congratulating him from the bottom of my heart , we learned something fundamentally new: about the Order carrier, about Putin, about the country, about the course. The novelty is more likely in the nuances in the fact that the old intellectual disputes are filled with a different meaning and are overgrown with fresh argument.

Yesterday, for example, it might seem that Viktor Shenderovich admits some aesthetic inaccuracy, comparing the Sochi Olympiad with Berlin. Today it does not seem so. Against the backdrop of hell that is happening in the neighboring republic and, apparently, provoked from the outside, this is a formidable signal. Forcing to recall again stencil words like "Anschlus" or "fraternal help"

The main thing is that the Olympiad has not yet ended, and the closing ceremony has already begun. The closing ceremony of a large country, a general rehearsal, during which past, real and future merits are appreciated. In the internal policy and in the foreign policy, since both of these directions are supervised by the Hardenger Journalist. In the life of an entire country, which is already fifteen nearly a slow but confident step towards North Korea. And the personnel who decide everything look at their chest with a well -deserved reward. “That's exactly how it will be,” Vladimir Vladimirovich promised us, and he keeps his word.