Apartments are not on "their"

I overstate expectations, I thought, having read the words of Peskov, who was offended by the world press, who had informed about the impending informational stuffing against President Putin: “We are talking about Putin personally, about attempts to get to his family, we are talking about childhood friends (Kovalchuk, Rotenberg), about some offshore companies, about the businessmen, whom Putin did not see. All this was already repeatedly, in different variations, despite this, another repetition is being prepared. " Peskov learned about the impending abuse of the good name of the Russian president, you won’t believe from the questions that journalists from ICIJ, the International Consortium of Journalistic Investigations, addressed the Kremlin. Even before the appearance of the text, the spokeswoman considered it a "undisguised order." And he added that this is not the only such publication, there will be others, for example, from the "very famous international information agency." He told all this on March 28 .

I must say right away that the journalists, of course, acted completely professionally, sending questions, or requests, as Peskov said, directly where they know exactly what the material is being prepared, that is, in the press service of the President of Russia, as well as in all the structures that are discussed in the material. This is correct, logical and correct: the facts must be checked, the opinion of the interested party should be made public. True, journalists were unlikely to expected the opinion that the press secretary of the President of Russia did: a loud collision with an unnecessary text instead of answering their questions. That is, their natural issues were received by the Kremlin not as questions, but as information about the impending ugliness, which demanded an instant reaction with the involvement of not only the Kremlin’s press service, but also the federal channels-in recent days the whole propaganda machine of Russia included the maximum resistance mode that she had not seen, did not read, did not know. Marvelous new technologies.

So, at first I decided that the expectations were deliberately overstated. There is such a technique in PR. This is when a maximum of rumors and noise is created around some problem, it is pumped up and inflated to a universal scale, and then it turns out that it is small, funny, ridiculous and generally a soap bubble. By the way, there is a reverse tactic - a conscious underestimation of expectations. When no one expects interesting, and everyone tells that nothing like that, and then explodes for example, an information bomb. I proceeded from the fact that Peskov was more or less aware of what the text or texts would be about, I understood that it was nonsense, shouted “wolves!”, Knowing that the sheep really threatened for his cartridge.

March 31 "The very famous international agency" Reuters and the Organized Crime and Corruptions Repoting Project published notes in essence of the same thing: a certain St. Petersburg businessman Grigory Baevsky bought real estate (apartments and houses) of a certain number of women, including the president’s daughter, sister and grandmother of Alinina Kabaeva and either a journalist, or the future journalist Alisa Kharchev, who posed the journalism faculty of Moscow State University (alas, my Alma Mater) on April, with the text "Vladimir Vladimirovich, you are the best!" In short, as can be assumed from publications, the unknown Grigory Baevsky, 47 years old, an employee, as the authors of publications, Arkady Rotenberg,did not know the unknown girls .

Having already read the publications, I realized that no, Peskov did not overestimate expectations, but really nervous. The Kremlin, apparently, did not know what exactly would be in notes, and did not know that they were about the same thing, but for some reason the issues of journalists caused very strong anxiety. Perhaps the image of the aging womanizer was not provided among the images suitable for the Russian president. Although ... He is not the first, he is not the last president who sins with this. In addition, in his almost 64 years, he is quite in form, as we regularly see. And, do not forget, he is a bachelor, unless, of course, he did not marry - and, I believe, not in Alina Kabaeva’s grandmother.

Rotenberg chain - Raevsky - real estate of the Presidential girls - this is not good in published investigations

No, this is still not the main topic. The main thing is for whose money the girls rejoice at, not indifferent to the president. In this part, the situation, to put it mildly, is not quite transparent. I have never heard about Baevsky before, I could not find any of his photos on the internet. From everything that I read about him in two notes mentioned and on the RBC website , a simple and uncomplicated conclusion follows. Grigory Baevsky is such an option Andrew Burcha from the series "Night Administrator", shot from the book of the same name by John Le Carre. In every possible way, by the way, I recommend those who have not seen. So, the story with this shock is very simple. He is not at all. And they can be anyone. A figure bearing this name is needed only in order not to shine in transactions for the sale of weapons of real sellers. A person with the name Burch can make multimillion -dollar transactions, he has accounts, credit cards, and signature right. But he is only a frontman, covering those who should remain in the shade with his own name and signature. For this, he receives some percentage of transactions. And our real Baevsky can receive a piece of business, or participation in a big business, or a decent fee, or generous gifts.

The Rotenberg - Baevsky - real estate chain of the President’s girls - this is not good in published investigations. I don’t even know which option is worse. Putin through Baevsky gives his heart to the ladies of real estate at the expense of Rotenberg. And Rotenberg receives bad state orders, which earnly earnings so successfully that for him the price of this real estate is real trifles. And then this is corruption. And, to be honest, the Russian president looks at such a context somehow completely bad. You want to please your daughter or not a daughter - go and buy her an apartment for "your own". But this may not coincide in numbers with an official income declaration. And also, as you know, the personal and family life of our president is a taboo, and there should be no visible traces of it.

Another option: Rotenberg’s money is not only Rotenberg’s money, and for some reason the president has the right to calculate that when he needs to buy or give something to someone, this wallet will always be at his disposal. Also not good, dull and suspicious. There are many unnecessary monetary issues.

Well, the mysterious Baevsky is a clean water, a figure-cover. For some reason, I think that both Putin and his friends read Le Carre. Baevsky, on the other hand, was definitely worth it if he had not yet read. He would have this option with Burch in the series (aka Derek S. Thomas in a novel published in 1993) seemed painful to his acquaintances. As a scheme, of course, nothing more. Because the literary and serial character, who was hidden behind a fictional name, actually spy against the villains and helped to take them to clean water. This is literature, not life.

Natalia Gevorkyan - journalist

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