"Satyricon" armed the mouth

A strange thing, because last fall there was no doubt that they agreed on everything: "Satyricon" and the Ministry of Culture. Konstantin Raikin at the Congress of STD sharply opposed censorship, obscurantism and deputy minister of culture Aristarkhov - ignoramus and Stalinist, and this meant that the theater needed money. The money was found , and since then, a whole year, we did not know anything that the People's Artist was thinking about censorship, obscurantist and the Ministry of Culture. We believed that the incident was exhausted and “very terrible times”, about which the artist grieved, ended. Other times came at last.

It turned out that we were happy early, wiped sweat, took a breath. The new appeal of Konstantin Arkadyevich to the city and the world clearly indicates that the gloomy era is ongoing. Judge for yourself: the construction of a new building of the theater, headed by Raikin, is practically frozen, and the creative team of Satyricon was tortured with prosecutors. Is there any more evidence that the country is immersed in darkness? Of course, it is not needed, and the director does not give them.

However, it is still impossible to call the situation completely hopeless. On the one hand, the forces of the Ecumenical Evil in the person of the Minister of Medinsky, who “cannot forgive the“ artist ”at the congress“ a year ago and the fact that he “convicted him several times”, was doing reprisal against the theater. But, on the other hand, there are “high power authorities that are above the Ministry of Culture”, and to them, calling them “dear friends”, appeals to Konstantin Arkadievich. In the hope that they will “ugly” the villain who literally pursues the artist. Forgetting, by the way, that the artistic director of Satyricon is a laureate of state prizes, that he has “two orders for merits to the Fatherland”, and these wonderful awards “presented three presidents to him, among them Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.”

True, Vladimir Vladimirovich has not yet responded to the artist’s bold speeches, and there is no confidence that he will respond, but they have already stirred in the Ministry of Culture. There, as they can, they answer him, expressing "extreme surprise" and threatening. The Deputy Minister of Zhuravsky - the one that comforted Raikin a year ago and promised to “solve the issues in working order,” now coldly notes that “there is no encroachment on construction because there is no construction,” and supports the prosecutors. There were, they say, checks and in the course of them identified systemic disorders, which were proposed to eliminate. And it is not the case that may come to court. After that, aggravating the conflict, Raikin does not spare the Zhuravsky. “He is a liar, like his boss,” the awarded Putin reports, and here we are finally convinced that the last times came.

That is, with the money of Satyricon, it is still bad, and with the inspection organs, about which nothing was heard a year ago, even worse. Next to these troubles, you see, all other problems, like Ukrainian, Syrian or there is Putin’s non -insurance with Trump, seem small. The era, if we have no conscience, did not really like it, but only yesterday we realized how everything was running.

If we speak seriously and evaluate what happened seriously, then most of all today I want to sympathize with Konstantin Arkadyevich. And to reproach him in naive egoism or to remember about Crimea this time I want to much less. Because the money in the country, at least the loot that stood out for culture, gradually ends, which means that, as part of the optimization of budget expenditures at the top, it was decided to introduce theatrical workers with prosecutors closer. In order to identify various abuse, without which it is impossible to put a single performance, and create a general atmosphere of intolerance to people who are unsuitable for propaganda war, but have imagined a lot about themselves. To that part of the creative intelligentsia, which has already been used in full or incomplete program, and now it is useful to intimidate. Different means, starting with the bankruptcy of the theater and ending with a prison.

The first were the Serebrennikov and his colleagues, who are now sitting under arrest - who under his home, and who was in jail, and Vladimir Vladimirovich himself already commented on these arrests in the sense that one should not confuse politics with criminals. It is not known about which of the celebrities will be taken hostage next time, but scary to many. Including crowned premiums and orders, as well as proxies. Here Konstantin Arkadievich delivers a preemptive blow, choosing Medinsky’s target, which after all scandals is not that it is possible, but not forbidden. And this is generally not news. The news is that the servile in the recent past people do not stop rebelling: either Raikin rises, then Kalyagin, then Raikin again. Usually with Putin’s name on the lips, but already with some desperate irony in the voice. They are afraid, they ask, but do not believe.

It turns out that they did not agree on anything a year ago - the minister and director. Or the contract is violated by the party that has power. The contract, according to which court artists do not climb into politics, when it is not necessary, and when necessary, at the right time they are famous for the wise king and for this they are showered with mercies and give them a ruble and no investigator dares to meddle in their creative laboratory and accounting. The contract has been canceled, and the scene masters protest, scourging the era and customs, laying out all their awards to the throne and hoping that the fair lawfully elected will call for the response of impudent boyars. Or at least he will not put the petitioners, he will not take the theater from them, will not squeeze out of the country. Well, we will rush with them.