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Actually, this is not news for a long time, it is a prose of life, it is a banal and even a boring plot. The channel is being smashed or they are innocently planting a rich person, to which freedom -loving masters of culture respond with an open letter, in which they protest against the strangulation of freedom of speech or a lawlessness of property. And they, too, within the framework of an open letter or, as it were, one by one, but other representatives of the creative intelligentsia are responding with a coordinated chorus. Say, debts must certainly be repaid, and the decision of an independent court should be respected, Nemea before the law. This is all predictable, to the aches in the cheekbones.

That is why the correspondence of Russian film distributors with Russian film producers at first read as a long -familiar text that you managed to get bored. There are progressive people, here are the so -called patriots. Those rebel against the authorities, and these, of course, support the authorities. Then another of those who for power removes their signature, although such things usually do not happen immediately - in five years, as a rule. In short, what to comment on.

However, in this case, there is something to talk about, since the event was not quite ordinary. This time the traditional dispute of business entities does not directly concern politics. The discussion does not at all come down to the fact that television people involuntarily evaluate the activities of the president or the oligarch allows themselves to publicly discuss with the same president about corruption. It seems to be purely about grandmothers.

The Ministry of Culture, in the person of the Minister of Medinsky, holds foreign films about a teddy bear and science fiction in the box office so that the audience fully enjoy ours, and the distributors accuse him of tyranny and sabotage. In his unique style, the minister answers : they say that I want, then I turn, and generally act in the interests of Russian cinema, and not Hollywood. Well, after him, Bondarchuk with Shakhnazarov and the same as them are on the pages of the government newspaper.

The organizers of the letter and signatories unfold the oral brief monologue of the head of the Ministry of Culture to the size of a rather impressive message, in which the minister’s merits to the homeland are listed in detail. And about Hollywood the most important words are said in it: they say, if our masterpieces were launched in American rental, then the “ideology that is actively distributed at the state level in the USA” would become an obstacle to their commercial success. That is, Medinsky, lobbying for Russian cinema to the detriment of distributors and spectators, acts, imitating Russian enemies of Russian cinema, for which he is praised by the Poles with Konchalovsky.

The story, as you can see, is confusing, so you won’t understand who the cosmopolitan and liberal, and who is the patriot and the conservative. For everyone, the model is America. Everyone is singing from someone else's voice.

But the fact that the conflicting parties, publishing their open letters, turn directly to Prime Minister Medvedev is truly interesting. It’s not to Putin that it is so typical of Russians who address their carts to the leadership, even if the president is not named in them, but personally to Dmitry Anatolyevich. The distributors want him to fire Medinsky. Producers claim that Medinsky is beautiful.

One gets the impression that a serious personnel intrigue unfolds before our eyes. Moreover, which is more curious, a couple of months before Putin’s elections. After which, who, who had overcome the rivals in an honest uncompromising struggle, will resign the government and begin to collect the office for a new one. In this connection, various rumors about the upcoming fate of temporarily or forever dismissed - including Medvedev and Medinsky.

Meanwhile, both robbed by the Minister and the supporters of the minister turn to Dmitry Anatolyevich as the power that has. It can be assumed that they or the comrades standing behind them know something or guess about something. For example, that Putin, tired of the victories, was increasingly immersed in a conversation with Mahatma Gandhi and the commander of the strategic missile forces, after the elections will not only leave his faithful shiftman at the post, but also delegate many secondary powers to him. In particular, who to put on the Ministry of Culture there.

Therefore, taking advantage of the next boorish trick of Vladimir Rostislavovich, his opponents organized the stood from the knees of the film distributors who urge Medvedev to put an end to voluntarism in the laundry. Therefore, Medinsky's friends apply a counterattack, pointing to the head of the office at how lucky he was with the Minister of Culture. So they write directly: "... let me thank you, dear Dmitry Anatolyevich, for setting absolutely correct tasks to the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, and it successfully fulfills them." With this spectacular phrase, the message ends, and if the doctor of historical sciences himself entered it there, then one cannot but be amazed at the hones of the syllable and the desperate tenacle with which he holds onto the chair. Not only organizing a letter, but also returning one of two films postponed.

Nevertheless, the forces protruding for and against Medinsky, apparently, are approximately equal and its current spring will be weighed on the scales where our entire establishment weighs. On the one hand, he tired the highest authorities with his endless scandals and showdowns with the masters of culture, who, while the minister, are more immersed in pitch longing. On the other hand, he is still a patriot to look for Nikita Mikhalkov, one of the cultural people of Russia and the patron of the minister, is pleased with him.

With letters, too, everything is not easy. This is true, in the course of his indefatigable struggle with Hollywood, the minister can simply ruin our film industry, dumping the audience from visiting cinemas. However, the truth is that his enemies for the most part are very similar to the friends of the old NTV and Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Unlike Medinsky’s friends, who from the very beginning of the happy zero understood everyone and signed only the right letters. Yes, there is something to think about Dmitry Anatolyevich, delving into the texts addressed to him and containing many secret meanings and wolf traps.

Through the efforts of Medinsky, if you leave it, you can bring the economic disaster closer, for which they will strictly ask Medvedev. And if you remove people like the Minister of Culture, will Putin's Russia become? And if it doesn’t stand, will it be good or bad? Questions are all of extreme importance, and in them, as in open letters, irreconcilably warmed with each other, disputes about the past, present and future of a huge country are reflected.