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How Russian officials invented fasting, which is more abrupt than American post -truth

Cocainine scandal grows. Argentine law enforcement agencies investigating the case of the supply of a drug through the Russian embassy in Buenos Aires published part of the case file. In the photographs, in particular, you can distinguish the on -board number of the aircraft, which was supposed to deliver to Moscow almost 400 kg of cocaine in 12 suitcases. According to RBC, the same number (96023) is assigned to the IL-96 air detachment "Russia", transporting the first persons of the state. After the publication about this, the website russianplanes.net was closed - a non -profit project that publishes information about Russian aircraft based on open sources.

On December 20, 2016, under mysterious circumstances, Peter Poland, the head of the department of the Latin American Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, died. In total, over the past year and a half, nine high -ranking Ministry of Foreign Affairs has died. It is known that in December 2017, when the second part of the “cocaine case” unfolded, the secretary of the Russian Council of Ministers Nikolai Patrushev visited Argentina on an official visit. The Argentine press claims that Patrushev flew the same plane as suitcases.

The official Russian position is to deny everything. At first, Maria Zakharova made a statement that only the timely intervention of Russian diplomats made it possible to suppress the drug distribution channel, which was supposedly associated exclusively with random technical personnel working at the embassy. Then a special refutation release by the affairs of the President of the Russian Federation, which oversees the flight squad "Russia". The representative of the department, Elena Krylova, said that information about the IL-96 involvement with on-board number 96023 to the carriage of cocaine is not true, and the number itself was forged "using modern technologies." So it is not known who is in cocaine, but this is definitely not us.

It is worth paying attention: our officials always ask first, like the hero of Arnold Schwarzenegger from the film “Red Heat”: what are your evidence? After the facts are provided, officials include the second speed: it still does not prove anything. Somewhere in the background, the Investigative Committee must certainly conduct an interrogation of the “Ukrainian eyewitness” of the death of the Malaysian Boeing: they say, not everything is so unambiguous.

It seems that while the whole world is discussing what post -truth is, that is, the situation of indistinguishability between truth and lies in the conditions of modern media technologies - Russia again went in a special way.

We invented a post -creature, also known as "denying." In which any event can be confidently called fictitious, if you really want to, and if the authorities persistently asks.

Both rational arguments and the obvious facts against the Russian post -legged are powerless, and this seems to be built on our whole geopolitical greatness today. In the west, they are frankly behind us again: there is the old fashioned way, it is believed that if the official was caught by the hand, then we must begin an official investigation.

We look only at the latest examples. Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin first boasts on the Web with his “nephew Roman”, and then deleted his own tweets and declares that he never had any nephew, the journalists invented everything.

The “liberal democrat” from the State Duma Leonid Slutsky is publicly accused of sexual harassment to journalists, and Slutsky says: “Never. Not in this matter ”, and nothing happens further - here you are not America. Doping Russian athletes, they tell us, never used it at all, and if something was, then by chance, without any connection with the purposeful activity of Russian officials. And it’s already completely terrible and tragic - we were already leaving Syria twice, and then suddenly in this February the unidentified number of Russian citizens died there. What do officials say? The traditional “there are no them there,” that is, “it's not us.” Against this background, Deripaska, by the way, looks like a European, when instead of total denial filed a lawsuit to protect the right to private life.

The heyday of the Russian culture of the post -Legi began with the well -known events of 2014, when our soldiers were not in the Crimea at first, and then they were awarded medals for this.

Since then, our ability to lie began to even be fashionable to be proud. In the sense that their spies also lie, so who will prohibit our scouts? The deepest truth, discovered by Russian society in recent years, consists in the fact that “they also steal in the West, and their media are engaged in propaganda,” so let's compete with them. See how dexterous we are: time even better than America.

The conflict begins when the traditional prejudices inherent in civil society in the West come into conflict with our Russian “denial”. An indicative example is the investigation of the former director of the FBI, now special prosecutor Robert Muller, dedicated to the alleged intervention of Russian citizens in American elections. Their institutions perform the function of the immune system: if the event was, then it was, and it is necessary to establish all the circumstances, regardless of what respected people resist this. We can deny the fact of the disease.

In general, it is very difficult for two such different ethical systems - domestic and imported - to survive on the same planet. Apparently, one of them will win over time. Which one to put on?