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Voronezh is uneasy
Christmas are celebrated in America, and in Russia they are already preparing in full swing for the New Year with its inherent holidays. But silence is deceiving - many look with uncertainty to the near future, in early February, when, as expected, the so -called "Kremlin list" as a basis for new sanctions can be published.
The fact that this threat in the Russian elite is taken seriously is evidenced by the words of a person who is by no means associated with the power "tower" of the Kremlin - German Gref. In an interview with Financial Times, the head of Sberbank was unusually harsh, saying that if new sanctions were imposed, " the Cold War will seem a children's game ." Separately, Gref touched on the issue of disabling Russian banks from the SWIFT system, calling this proposal (which sounds in the West since 2014) is "irrational".
Gref himself does everything to protect Sberbank from strict sanctions; Bank branches did not appear in the annexed Crimea. It is curious that in an interview with FT, Gref expresses confidence that after the 2018 elections, Putin will follow the path of economic liberalization and improve relations with the West. According to Gref, it will be "illogical" if Putin does not use the reform program prepared by Alexei Kudrin. He also praised Putin for an interest in the digitalization of the economy.
Gref’s words about the Cold War made some - to joke, and others - to be wary.
What died in Bilderberg - Gref warned against the introduction of large -scale sanctions against Russia by the United States and stated that if they were adopted, the Cold War would seem to be a children's fun.
- Zarathustra (@zarathustrak) December 25, 2017
It is known that Gref is a five -column, liberal and a subpicinder litter, introduced by the State Department, to spoil Putin Karma. So he does not want new sanctions. A real patriot of sanctions does not just want, he frantically demands them like Putin!
- Turban Bazarova (@turbanbazarova) December 25, 2017
Gref had already moved to direct threats, and before that everyone shouted that the sanctions were making us only stronger
- 🌲 Nedruks for the hillock🌲 (@lndcalling) December 25, 2017
But the main question - what, in fact, Gref meant? What answer, comparable in power with the arsenal of the Cold War, could Russia fall in response to possible sanctions? Many are afraid for whether they will “bomb Voronezh”, that is, for whether the authorities will recoup in the Russians.
Gref warned the United States against the introduction of large -scale anti -Russian sanctions otherwise? pic.twitter.com/fxhtdx1vnk
- Thoughts of the perzient (@vvp2_0) December 24, 2017
Gref threatened to turn off heating in Voronezh if the United States is disconnected by Swift.
- IVAN SEMYONOV (@SEM7SER) December 24, 2017
Voronezhs! Dump from there, Gref does not joke!
- William Wallas (@ne_potupchik) December 25, 2017
According to an ominous coincidence, Putin the other day visited the team center of the Strategic Missile Forces.
During the visit of Putin, the missile center in Balashikha, the Strategic Missile Forces, boasted a little the capabilities of Russian missiles. Recall that Russia is the most peaceful country in the world. Cittees from the words of the journalist of the Kremlin pool from Kommersant Andrei Kolesnikov: Pic.twitter.com/qcglghdxkt
- ribbon (@oldlentach) December 25, 2017
Historical words about great power and small accuracy were "overheard" by the journalist of Kommersant Andrei Kolesnikov:
The inspection ended in a huge hangar, where all 15 intercontinental ballistic Soviet and Russian missiles were presented, and this was by no means dummy. And now a visit to this hangar in my mind will forever be associated with the phrase that the Morstan Commander Sergei Karakaev said, reporting to Vladimir Putin about the state of weapons in this area (I do not consider the phrase “One such rocket, Vladimir Vladimirovich, just three states will be enough ...”))
Social networks, as often happens, ridiculed:
Low accuracy is what, it is like the launch of satellites to the bottom of the ocean?
- Hunter (@Seahunter123) December 25, 2017
Especially if they explode without even taking off.
- Maxim Sotkov (@msotkov) December 23, 2017
The commander of the missile forces told Putin: “One such rocket, Vladimir Vladimirovich, is enough to destroy three states” and then we are surprised why Russia is considered an aggressor. Indeed, why do we just promise to kill millions of people, what's wrong with this?!
- Stalingulag (@stalingulag) December 25, 2017
And again Voronezh is not on his place.
Low accuracy of our rocket .... I'm worried about Voronezh
- Chandler Bing (@ramzysnow) December 25, 2017
But RIA Novosti Observer Ivan Danilov believes that everything is in order, so it is:
Perhaps it is difficult to imagine a more adequate and capacious response to the strategy of American dominance, and there are good chances that it is the arguments of this kind of Washington’s forces that may well understand, despite the entire complex of their own exclusivity.