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What nervous people have become on the Internet! After a couple of publications, in which I was quite sincerely mourned about the death of my television colleagues, which I just did not hear. “You, Leonid, support those who shoot torture on the camera,” “I would better write your culinary specialist or reviews, you don’t understand the hell in politics”, “Dog Dog Death” ... Well, the like.

The last cry of hatred was addressed to the television operator of Channel One Volodya Klyan. At the age of 68, a man wanted to help his children raise his grandchildren with money. The acquaintance editor from the first wrote that he was even lost to a business trip out of respect for gray hair and experience-they pay more than decently for the war on television, and large salaries to television people remained in so cursed by many 90s. A person simply fulfilled his professional duty, why is he a “dog”, a sadist and accomplice of a crime?!

The old members of the Demseyuz (as they, at least they imagine) believe that “any honest journalist must leave the profession in the current situation” (the rain television company is not rubber, “New Gazeta”, too). So that they understand this ... So I left (not of my own free will), I will go to myself with a camera on my shoulder for a tenth year. By the way, I don’t know if these accusers have a complaint to the moral portrait of MK journalist Alexander Minkin. Recently, in his blog, he wrote how he was invited to the “Ground Nest” (a club of the author’s song, by the way, there is no place for falsehood) for the evening of memory of Igor Korneluk, the deceased journalist with RTR. And he did not go there only because he saw in the list of invited the surname of the State Duma deputy from EP Sergey Zheleznyak, the famous Perevolov and Narcissus, who loves to see himself on the TV screen. On this occasion, the author of ironic letters to the president wrote and published a motivated refusal on the Internet and on the pages of a popular newspaper. At the same time, he sincerely regretted that he could not honor the memory of the untimely departed colleague. I am amazed that such things have to be chewed with solid adults with the highest, as they say, education.

There is such a profession - to shoot life. Moreover, you do this from the side that invited you to the shoot, so your look at the event is subjected to appropriate adjustment. And the work of a lawyer protecting a serial maniac? Or the work of a plumbing, which has a spinning toilet, which has a leaky toilet, where did the call come from? For me, these things are of the same order. Because a professional.

And I also recall how at the end of the summer of 96 I sat on an airplane at the Chkalovskoye airport (suburbs) in anticipation of a departure for the shooting of the Khasavyurt agreement. During the day of filming, they promised to pay even more accepted, $ 700/day (this was called “daily”), more than decent money at that time ... Yes, and also. By the way, in the case, they paid for the risk - during the signing process, three journalists were stolen, whom Berezovsky later bought.

Alas, at that time I worked as a television operator at the Timechko program. What is the name, such an attitude - in the plane with the press we were launched by one of the latter. But the first to land when they needed places for the Italian film crew that had just arrived in Moscow. Well, I would flew, took it ... How then they called me? The attitude in society was far from ambiguous to that agreement, probably many remember this.

Therefore, with a calm conscience, I raise a glass in memory of the dead colleagues. And I completely reject the comparison imposed by opponents-“Was there any truth in the middle of the Germans with the Russians?” And what a stupid manner of confusing hell with a finger?! What is happening today in Ukraine can be called one word - a mess. There is a caricature, and a tragedy, and a farce ... Little by little.

How, for example, you can regard the promise of the new Minister of Defense of Ukraine to arrange a “Victory Parade” in Sevastopol, who threatens this pygmy (not in physical, political terms)? Or the initiative of our State Duma to create gaming zones in Sochi and in Crimea. That is, the deputies signed in their own boltology, without the use of human vices, the economy of resorts cannot be raised, which is old, that new ones. I watch the frames of the bombed Slavyansk and Kramatorsk with an experienced. But at the same time I am amazed - during the tragedy of the situation, a rally in support of self -defense forces in Million Donetsk gathered only three thousand people, the organizers themselves complain that young people are interested exclusively with beer and ice cream. Something here is definitely not right ...

I am understanding about the calls on local Arkhangelsk radio to help Ukrainian refugees with the whole world - money, foods, medicines, and things. And at the same time, I’m swearing, when they tell me - with free medicines for beneficiaries, there was a complete misunderstanding, there was no month and a half and, they say, there will be no in the fall again. Moreover, the health workers themselves, without hiding with bitter irony, say - "but the Crimean." You give me what it is supposed to, and then I will decide how to dispose of these. I will solve it myself!

If you have already talked about the economy. Personally, I do not think at all that the associative entry of Ukraine into the EU will inflict such a mortal blow to her as they are painted in the programs of Vladimir Solovyov, that the inevitable cooling of relations with Russia will inflict a deadly blow to her. Yes, once we were connected by one umbilical cord, the very notorious Soviet decentralization, when the car body was made in one republic, motors in another, and a full assembly in the third. Remember the Armenian freaks of Eraza, who rarely reached the conveyor of the plant to the passage, it is about such pseudo -integration. But time is coming, Ukraine today is not so dependent on Russia and the CIS countries as a whole, as, for example, in the late 1990s. In 1996 In the countries of the post -Soviet space, she exported 2.2 times more goods than in the EU, in 2013. - Only 32% more.

Yes, with Georgia and Moldova a completely different story - quotas for the supply of agricultural products, European GOSTs, quality standards, etc. Most likely, these republics are awaiting the gloomy fate of poor European relatives - Romania and Bulgaria, maybe even worse. But I remember the Romanian border guards, beating from the passing trains "Karamel". Or Bulgarian waiters who dream of a salary of $ 200. A friend from Chisinau writes-in their markets a kilogram of tomato costs as much as in Arkhangelsk a kilogram of Semogi (most likely, this is a hyperbole, but still), and I remember them there 8 kopecks there. In short, they will live on handouts from a big brother ... But was it different under the USSR?

But with Ukraine, another story, industry there was God. It will be that European investors will buy it, reformat, bring it to mind, make it effective. An example of this is the fate of the Czech "Skoda", which was bought by Volkswagen. While we even waved his hand to the famous gas, it is not subject to restoration and modernization. For example, I am still surprised how the Ukrainian oligarch Poroshenko was able to rise like this on chocolate sweets, right up to the president. With the southeastern "metallurgists" everything is clear, our scheme, but this ...

And the most nasty thing is that it was precisely because of this notorious associative membership in Ukraine that it was now that now, hell knows when it will go out. We ourselves chose our own “special path” (since we live here and do not leave), so why prevented another from making the same choice to others?

Recently I read the essays of one very smart and ironic woman from the southeast, protruding on the side of the DPR (so fate has developed) on the Internet. I can’t refuse to quote for myself: - Refugees. Wounded. Pirbus on three sides. The DPR is a crowd of enthusiasts absolutely not organized and do not want to hear anything (by analogy with the October Revolution - a drunken sailor). The National Guard is the Petliurians. I re -read Bulgakov’s “White Guard” - one to one situation. I don’t even want to describe the army - eared, mobilized forcibly children who do not want to fight.

Then she writes that the first weeks of the confrontation between Kyiv and the DPR resembled the war described in the “brave soldier Schweik”, only without blood. The peasants with a pitchfork went out onto the tanks, stopped ... and led the crews to their hut to feed and pour. But then the professional mercenaries came, they came from both sides. Then it began ...

Even from her about propaganda: - Where there are no Russian television channels, I think they are already sure that Putin has breakfast with babies taken out of Ukraine. But this is exactly to the Dnieper. Our situation is different. Putin rating is 300 percent. The father of the peoples and everything else. On the Internet, people create posters in Photoshop with his own hands, writes patriotic poems. Poetry, of course, does not represent in the style of our region and poetic value, rather, "the cat has four legs." But, there is so much soul!

Well, you understand - you can not believe a single side. However, to explain to those in the tank, whose review is limited to the size of the observation slit, the work is ungrateful and meaningless. Why am I doing this? I have such a job ...

For professionalism!