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Russian President offered the host of NBC Megin Kelly to go to the prosecutor's office

Interview of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to the American television channel NBC, Kremlin, Moscow, March 10, 2018 Photo: Kremlin.ru

"I have no idea." "These are not my problems." "I do not control his life." "Complete nonsense." "Fake, stuffing." "Boring, girls." These were the often repeated answers of President Vladimir Putin ** to the frequently asked questions Megin Kelly, leading NBC. We must pay tribute to her: a professionally respectful tone and the rigid content of issues almost took off the autocrat: in fact, he participated in the debates, in which he was not going to participate. In this duel , Putin, accustomed to monologues and completely weaned from dialogues, lost. The essence of the conversation, consisting of two parts and lasted 1 hour 29 minutes, Kelly described in the course of the conversation as follows: "We call this an attempt to get away from the answer."

Give the paper!

Megin Kelly was a blonde in law. That is, an attractive TV presenter who is not supposed to have a brain by status, but it does not just have it: she also has a higher legal education and a rich practice of a lawyer. What the same Putin, who was not prepared for the conversation, did not know, trying to crush his partner on this verbal waltz with legal logic. More precisely, the logic of the Chekist, issued for legal. After all, you are not a legal education, Putin Blonde said with a sense of deliberate superiority. Legal, honestly she answered. And the Chekist logic lawyer Kelly, a graduate of Albany Law School, refused to understand: after all, if someone, albeit without a command from above (let’s say this), intervenes in the elections in another country, invades the dirty tricks into the information space of a different state, privately hires the thugs to help Assad, then this someone must bear the responsibility. "Give the paper!" - Once again, Vladimir Putin demanded, as an overturned bureaucrat. Contact your prosecutor's office with your complaints. We will consider. Then we’ll talk.

After all, you are not a legal education, Putin Blonde said with a sense of deliberate superiority. Legal, honestly she answered

Everything that Kelly was talking about is “nonsense” and unfounded accusations. Yes, and you never know who says what. There, Putin said, his own press secretary of Peskov sometimes "carries such a blizzard."

In other words, what the media is called the “Kremlin’s opinion” is just a “snowstorm”.

Kremlin purge

From the interview it follows that Putin knows almost nothing, I have not heard anything about anything, but about what I heard is not his problem, because there are things more important. He does not control one, another, third. Almost everything around is private problems of private people. What then, in principle, controls a person whose strong side is a manual autocratic control? What is he responsible for? To what extent does the freedom of action of Prigozhin, Roldugin, Peskov and his entire environment, distant and close?

From the interview it follows that Putin knows almost anything, he didn’t hear anything about anything, but what he heard is not his problem, because there are more important things

The main thing is that they do not violate internal legislation. In order for Russia to admit that someone violates some norms abroad, you need to conclude an agreement. Otherwise, in no way. Again: Give the paper!

That's right, where it is said, on what paper it is written that Putin has ever changed the constitution. He, according to him, "never changed it." The papers recorded that they did this by extending the term of presidential powers to six years, another president and other parliament. We have everything according to the law, and who then interferes after a couple of years to one of the completely legal entities legislative initiative - not the president! - To go with a proposal to turn Putin into the chairman of SI, into a lifelong leader. And this initiative in full accordance with applicable law will be carried out through all the required procedures.

Sanctions? "Listen, sanctions are not associated with some mythical intervention in the US election by Russia." This is an attempt to "stop the development of Russia." Of course, they are not connected. Pure truth. They are associated with the annexation of the territory of a stranger state and the war in the Donbass. The West is vitally interested in economically strong and politically stable Russia, which is not a threat to the world and with which you can safely conduct business. The opposite point of view was somewhat outdated at least thirty years ago. But this, in the end, is a matter of conspiracy theology. Remember: "We have never lived so badly in Russia as under President Obama."

“They ( that is, the opposition. - A.K. ) does not have a program for the development of the country,” said the only presidential candidate who has no program. What we heard as the President’s message to the Federal Assembly is also not quite a program, because accounting is in no way gigantic expenses for social goals and megarars for miracle lackens. There are no such budgets, except that Venezuela, based on cryptocurrency. You can argue with the program, for example, Alexei Navalny, whose name the president is still from some religious or something, does not mention, but it certainly exists-at a distance of two clicks on the Internet.

However, Putin directly said: the opposition reveals problems - this, on the one hand, is important, but, on the other hand, it is dangerous. Of course: any truth shakes the foundations of the regime, which autocrat will like it. Only no one says so frankly.

Interview with Megin Kelly, who was designed to show how elusive the boss found many weaknesses. And the main weaknesses: rejection of a meaningful conversation, demonstrative cynicism

Finally, about the main thing. They say that Kelly argues that it is too dangerous to leave power for you. Putin pretends that he does not understand the question: “Why do you think that you must come after me in Russia who will be ready to destroy everything that I have done in recent years?” Yes, no - they are not going to destroy anything. Because they dream of the same authoritarian and personalist power. Therefore, the meaning and content of the new date of Putin is his personal, including physical, self -preservation. And self -conservation means that in no case do not leave power. Give a slack, show yourself a lame duck in front of a bird courtyard, ready at any moment to swear allegiance to a new boss and glorify the old one means to endanger yourself. Is it because Iannucci’s film “Death of Stalin” is prohibited by Russian straightforward censorship, which he shows what the struggle for the power of the first -person heirs is ridiculous, but also terrible.

Interview with Megin Kelly, who was designed to show how elusive the boss found many weaknesses. And the main weaknesses: the rejection of a substantial conversation, demonstrative cynicism, covered by a noble anger and a boomerang returning claims - get out first with yourself.

Give the paper! Give the materials! Do not give ...

And indeed - let him give him paper, finally.

* Author - head of the programs of the Moscow Center of Carnegie, permanent columnist NT

** The full text of the interview with Vladimir Putin is nbc: www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/57027