In the world of discoveries

In Russia, it’s interesting-you always discover something new for yourself. And often - you are scared of what you opened. The main revelations of the week were collected (and scared) The New Times

He is not a genius

Scared to be scared, let's start with the most terrible. On May 7, the actress of the show "Ural dumplings" (on the regional primaries of EP, she took third place and managed to be famous for the reason that a person who knows how to monitor his body could manage the country without problems) told fans through Instagram that she was invited to a meeting in the Kremlin: "Today I was invited as one of the leaders in the Sverdlovsk region. socio-economic development of our native region. Leaders are invited from all over the country: the primaries actively supported millions.

This is a great idea. Her initiator, Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin, is just a genius! ”

This, however, is not yet scary. After a couple of days, in the “Sign” publication, “a source close to the leadership of United Russia” spoke about the actress without any respect: “No mass consultations with the leaders of the primaries in the administration are held regarding the development of the regions. With whom Mikhalkov met is unknown, and causes a strong doubt that she met someone at all. ” This may already be scary, but first of all - for beautiful Julia, of course. But the title is truly terrible: "In EP, they refuted the statement of Mikhalkova."

What does it mean? Read the statement more attentively. This means, among other things, that Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin is not a genius. And here is the time to be scared not only to the countless fans of Volodin, but also to many oppositionists who are used to writing off almost all their own failures on the genius of the insidious enemy. After all, the source from EP is more visible - it is a genius or not.

Forbidden children

The Duma in the third reading adopted amendments to the Criminal Code, expanding the definition of children's pornography (the initiator is Elena Mizulina, of course, but this is not even important). The commotion caused two points from the definition. For a term of three to ten years, they will now, for example, for the storage and distribution of "images of an adult person depicting a minor who performs or imitates sexual intercourse or other sexual actions." And also - for the images of "fully or partially naked genitals of a minor."

The first item has already shocked not only vicious fans of role -playing games, but also forever young fans of anime - cartoons about the adventures of girls, usually completely formed, but dressed in the school uniform.

The second embarrassed lovers to publish on social networks photographs of their beloved children in specific situations and with understandable comments: "We are in the bath." Or even "we poked." However, if you bring the wording to the logical end (it is also absurd, it is the main creative method of the State Duma), then this is what it turns out. The best, most accurate image of man is the person himself. The best image of the child is the child, respectively. And even in a hundred clothes, wrap it, but still there are genitals in this image. Well, as a rule. Therefore, between children and child pornography, you can safely put an equal sign. Forbid children, and parents to plant children for the manufacture and storage of children.

Scares? Yes. Surprising? No. The whistle around the “protection of the rights of children” simply cannot end with anything else, this is just not a discovery. This has long been clear.

Insidious story

The love story of the emperor and ballerina threatens the national security of the Russian Federation, a frame from the film "Matilda"

In February 2017, the new film by Alexei Matilda, about the novel by Tsar Nicholas II and the Ballerina Kshesinskaya, should be released on the screens. But it may not go out: the Orthodox activists have already watched the trailer and wrote a letter to the prosecutor’s office demanding a film to ban the film, and punish the creators.

Everything is as usual: “slander the holy family”, “cynicism”, “vulgarity”, “insulting feelings” and even something else: “It is obvious that the actions of the persons who created the film by A. Matilda, not only criminal in relation to believers of the country's citizens, but also in relation to the state, as they are aimed at undermining the national security of the Russian Federation.”

Here, of course, no discoveries - everything is familiar, expected and even a little boring. There is no discovery in the fact that the state, preoccupied with “preventing the revision of the results” and “falsification of history”, urges to fight against the history described a thousand times in the memoirs and works of historians.

The discovery is that at least one point of accusation of activists has to agree. “Russia is presented in the film as a country of gallows, drunkenness and fornication,” the activists write. But the gallows cannot be seen! And really, slander turns out.

Questions of literature

What is the liberal soul craving? The liberal soul awaits and longs for falsification and provocations on the topic of Stalinism. At least, Ilya Ilya Pozhidaev writes about this in the Literary Newspaper. A fresh opus is called "the genius of the state security model under Stalin Beria and the acute need for such a model for us today." The author proves that under Beria, when there was order, the security organs at the same time ensured the extraction of uranium ore, and with marginals - Trotskyists, Zionists and Nazis - successfully fought. And now they have forgotten how.

In the country - without haste, with commendable gradualness, the cult of the serial killer is being revived and his crimes are justified. There is no discovery. It didn’t start yesterday. And the fact that they are trying to smear in this matter all our great literature is also impossible to be surprised. Well, yes, now the Literary Newspaper is such a printed organ, it's time to get used to it. Compared to the newspaper “Culture”, for example, this can even be said, a completely liberal edition.

This all would probably become a discovery for our great Pushkin, who in 1830 came up with the Literary Gazeta. But he will not - he was killed in time.

Our greatness

75% of Russians consider Russia an influential country

38% - believe that Russia should regain the status of superpower

26% - that Russia is already superpower

49% - we are sure that Russia will become superpower in the near future

Source: VTsIOM

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