On the bridge is not in the leg

It must have been parallel reality, and there, inaccessible in the world, inaccessible to us, the opposite is true. For example, Gennady Timchenko has a reputation, and, accordingly, reputation risks. And so he, a billionaire and a friend of Putin, living in his paradoxical world, pronounces these unexpected words.

First, anonymously, through a certain source, information was received that the Stroytransgaz group belonging to Timchenko would not participate in the construction of the bridge across the Kerch Strait. And yesterday, Gennady Nikolaevich himself spoke. “I am afraid of reputation risks. This is a very risky story, I am afraid to get and not to overpower,” the oligarch said, meeting with journalists.

Four months ago, in the sensational interview with Andrei Vandenko, he spoke on a given topic much more optimistic. We can say that he did not doubt the success of the entire enterprise, and he was going to immediately "take both the bridge and the tunnel." The risks were also not afraid, especially reputation. “There are resources ...,” Timchenko reported to the correspondent, perishing with their eyes of other microphones and other listeners.

He seemed pretty vigorous, contrary to all sanctions, although sometimes he had different sorrowful phrases from his tongue. About separation from a family and a dog, traditionally resting in the south of France, and that they are ready to “pass the countless billions of their billions to the native state tomorrow, they are burned with fire. However, in general, Gennady Nikolayevich held staunchly and praised his friend, who does everything correctly, because "in any situation is guided by the interests of Russia."

It was supposed, apparently, that a friend would compensate for all financial and moral losses at the place of current residence of Timchenko, in Russia. The same bridge will help to build, at the same time a tunnel, and this is the money is immense. True, even then there was a suspicion that life under the sanctions was too tiring and a disadvantageous oligarch is hardly exhausted from gratitude to Putin, who broke his life. There was a hunch that the Crimean bridges and tunnels to a citizen of Finland, who sold his "Gunvors", is not needed for nothing. Now the hunch seems to be confirmed.

After all, what is all these "reputational risks" if you translate from the oligarchic language into Russian?

Firstly, there is less money in the country and there are not the slightest guarantees that borrowed state funds when building a bridge over the Strait will allow the best friend to master with the previous splendor. Secondly, if the funds suddenly are not enough (and when they were enough from the very beginning at such construction sites?), Then they will ask you. Thirdly, Vladimir Vladimirovich was angry to the whole world and it is better not to fall under his arm, mastering the means and convincingly proving why it was not possible to hand over the bridge on time, not to mention the tunnel. Fourth, it is completely incomprehensible what the situation with the Crimea will turn into at all and what price in the broad sense all Russians will have to pay for this peninsula. Finally, Fifth, Gennady Nikolaevich hardly resigned to the status of an outcast, and here he may have his own calculations. He began to Persona Non Grat in the West, paying for his proximity to the sovereign who saw the temple mountain in Korsuni, spit on international laws and declared a cold war to mankind.

Refusing to participate in the Crimean long -term construction, Timchenko, consciously or unconsciously, hopes for intravital rehabilitation in Europe. Where he spent a considerable part of his life, leaving estates, underground courts, planes, and had a sophisticated to this life. Contacting Crimea means to finally destroy the “reputation” for it, no matter what the word means.

Better to leave the game.

Another question is how the best friend and patron will react to this trick. As the "risks" that the oligarch talks about. Still, he would hardly believe Timchenko, who, they say, was afraid to "master" the project. And what was there to be afraid there? Can spiritual scrapers bend under the weight of the bridge? For Putin, who divides people into enemies and traitors, the refusal to invest in the Crimea can be equated to treason, and here Timchenko risks real.

However, the ability to hide his feelings for a long time and calmly is a distinctive feature of the President of the Russian Federation, so that Gennady Nikolaevich would hardly be punished immediately for his entrepreneurial riot. In addition, people discouraged and offended, albeit very patriotic, near Putin had a lot of people, and immediately punish the apostate would probably be risky. Everyone has already been angry and scared, and official representatives of the state almost daily report the unprecedented cohesion of the people and elites around the great president, so it is better not to refute these messages to the joy of enemies. The quiet riot Timchenko is better to leave without consequences.

For in the parallel reality, where Vladimir Vladimirovich has the reputation of the Savior of Russia, and Gennady Nikolayevich is a responsible businessman, life is also not easy. It is essentially incomprehensible, this inverted life. It is only clear that the reputational risks there are more abruptly the local, about which Timchenko reminded Putin with his sudden boycott of the Crimean campaign. Oligarchs - they generally soon become realistic when they lose their overwhelming work, and as a reward they receive something divorced from life, such as a romantic bridge from Khersones to Korsun. And the matter seems to end with the fact that the bridge will build indifferent, greedy to money, other people in fact, but geopolitically useful Chinese.