And the stuffing is now there

Alisa Kharcheva is one of the heroines of the OCCRP investigation about the women of the president and the apartments for them. FE : navalny.com

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Everyone is surprised: what kind of stuffing is this? At the beginning of the week, the presidential spokesman announced an unprecedented information attack on his immediate supervisor-and at the same time threw the word “stuffing” into the public space, officials of all stripes immediately began to pronounce it more often than “hello”. All week, journalists wondered what bloody details should open; In connection with this, RBC was excavated by the previously unknown friend of the president, cellist Sergei Roldugin, whose main sin seems to be repeatedly played in cello in the presence of Vladimir Putin - a really strange venture, but does not pull on crime. As a result, the Center for Corruption and Organized Crime Research (OCCRP) published a report that businessman Grigory Baevsky rewritten apartments to Alina Kabaeva’s sister and grandmother, as well as a student Alisa Kharchev, who took place in the calendar for Putin, to which the public intrigued by Dmitry Peskov said: E-e ... e-e ... Um ... and that’s all?

The reaction to a sensational investigation within Russia turned out to be predictably sluggish, it could not be otherwise, and it was not the point of eighty with something percentage supporting the “Teflon” president, no matter what they write about him. The reason is deeper, at the level of values: for the audience that evaluates the actions of the president based on strict ethical norms, after the Donbass, political murders and the absurd sentences of plus-minus, one apartment as a presidential grant adds little to the general picture, moreover, the information that his external birds loved domestic birds, mildly, Nenov, and one hundred and one hundred Eighty -seventh of her confirmation is no longer as amazing as the first. And this is based on strict standards: I suspect that the elite brought up under Putin, not noticed in special moral scrupulousness, does not understand at all, because of which such a noise is: to use his official position in the interests of his own (or friendly of his own business), to distribute resources in friendship or for beautiful eyes, to make a native man - especially if the man is built and long -legged - this is normal, naturally, in order things. And why did Peskov burn so much?

The elite brought up under Putin, not seen in special moral scrupulousness, does not understand at all, because of which such noise

The clue is simple. Speech by Peskov. And after him Vitaly Mutko, who announced the “stuffing” that Russia bought the right to hold the World Cup; A brief retelling of the still not consisted publications, coupled with the promise “not to react to them” (“They are so indifferent to us that we specially collected a briefing to announce them a week before”) - this is not all for us. This is for the audience of Reuters, which was the first to publish a story about the bad apartments, or German publications that are going to expose Mutko. This is for “our Western desks,” that is, for people who, for selfish or idealistic reasons, still sympathize with the Russian authorities, but the stories about the apartment for favorite or the bribing of sports officials on an industrial scale for them are medieval wildness. They need to prove this that we did not do this, this was not we did, all do it all throughout the world, and also this was invented by Churchill in the nineteenth year.

Strange: we have somehow accustomed in recent years that officials have been talking with “Western partners” from the standpoint of strength, if not rudeness. The entire range of rhetorical techniques is used - from the Kiselevsky “radioactive ash” to the jokes of Maria Zakharova. Or the other day, an official of the Ministry of Defense called the authors of the report on Russian bombing Syria “unwound paints”; Against this background, Peskov’s preventive excuses look like a manifestation of some unnatural politeness. But there is no paradox here: Zakharov and Podkinka are just for internal use, for the same public, which joyfully chuckles at the next accusations of corruption and believes that all the enemies “throw up” this, and the enemies need to be “bend”. The audience will rejoice at how we famously cut off these paintings, and at a high official level, where issues about accounts, real estate and residence permit are resolved, everything will be extremely correct: there we value our reputation. We are contractual. Civilized. Their.