Hope day

On May 25, Ukrainians have already called "Day of Hope." He, of course, will enter the latest Ukrainian history, and all the details of the triumphal return of Nadezhda Savchenko to “Board No. 1”, all the words that on this day were said and not said, all gestures and signs will be read and an infinite number of times reinterpreted. However, this began literally immediately:

- Why did she leave the plane barefoot? "Hope comes barefoot?"

- She refused to accept a bouquet from Yulia Tymoshenko! What did she want to say that?

Ukrainian journalists and bloggers, while broadcasting from Borispol, began to ask uncomfortable questions, as if tomorrow had already come for Savchenko.

“Leave at least this day for pure joy,” they were pulled by a little less politically concerned compatriots, but, be that as it may, all the main issues were asked literally at once. Actually, the main question is one: what will happen to her tomorrow? When she ceases to be a martyr, when she turns from a people's heroine ... into a people's deputy, a “political animal”, a television staff, what will happen? We will be inevitably disappointed, ”these people answered themselves now, although so far, in the first minutes after her release, Savchenko seems to have done nothing that would give them a reason to transfer her to the“ menagerie of the Schuster ”. However, the word has already been uttered: what do you say when it appears in the political show at Schuster? In other words, are you ready to see how she turns from a telemuccal into a telekloon?

All the other characters of this drama, oddly enough, did not raise questions. They played their roles (“Propristy” - the same spectators and network observers habitually answered themselves). Poroshenko went out of the hero-liberator, immediately promising to “return the Crimea and the Donbass,” since he managed to “return Nadia”. And what Putin wanted to show, “publishing” Viktor Medvedchuk in this role, it seems that one Putin knows. Perhaps this was an attempt to show, “who is the master in the house and who is the puppeteer”, but whatever the “anti -rating” of Poroshenko, the aggregate “anti -rating” of Putin and Medvedchuk is such that Poroshenko rather benefits from this intentional or unintentional analogy.

Tymoshenko received another problem, however, she is now not used to. The public refusal of her “list of deputy No. 1” from the political bouquet, probably, was still a gesture, if not spontaneous, then addressed not to her specifically, but thereby “folk audience” who were already ready to see the transformation of the carriage into pumpkin, princesses into a deputy. Perhaps this meant something like: I will not allow you to play on me. In any case, in the eternal game that Tymoshenko leads “against all” and primarily against the president, Savchenko is unlikely to help her. Maybe because she is still a soldier by profession, not a politician, and she has a commander in chief. Be that as it may, her first words were addressed to the very audience who expected this transformation from her, and she said, perhaps, something that they did not expect from her: “Help me not to mean, help me not to save myself!” A politician would say in her place: I promise you ... and further in the text.


Photo: 1. Ukraine. Kyiv. May 25, 2016. The Ukrainian soldier Nadezhda Savchenko (in the center) answers the questions of journalists at the Borispol airport. President of the Russian Federation V. Putin on May 25, 2016 signed a decree on the pardon of N. Savchenko, and on an airplane of the President of Ukraine P. Poroshenko, she was delivered from Rostov-on-Don to Kyiv. EFREM LUKATSKY/AP/TASS
2. Ukraine. Kyiv. May 25, 2016. Ukrainian soldier Nadezhda Savchenko and former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko (from left to right) during a meeting at the Borispol airport. EFREM LUKATSKY/AP/TASS