Artemy Panarin recently signed a contract ($ 11.6 million a year) with the New York Rangers NHL club. And at the end of last week he gave an interview to the Utub-channel “All Golovin”, in which he spoke about his vision of the situation in modern Russia and President Putin.

Most users of social networks supported Panarin in his statements.

We give the most interesting fragments of interviews in the transcript of Sports.ru

- I heard that at first in America you were proud that our president is Putin. Why did you do this?

- Because I was not interested, I didn’t look at the policy at all, I didn’t read any news. He was firmly concentrated on hockey, he wanted in the NHL, he did not notice anything.

And I could not cross the border - once, enlightened. Only two years later, the submarine: "Something is wrong here."

- What do you think about Putin?

- I think he no longer understands where - good, where - bad. It seems to me that he is already psychologically not so easy to soberly assess the situation, because there are many people who bring him to decisions.

If everyone will tell you for 20 years, what good fellow you are and do everything right, what do you think, will you see your mistakes? How will you see them?

In America, there are two times four years - and that’s all, it is impossible to return to power. Cool: made the maximum benefit for the country, did not overgrown with anything and left calmly. Young blood came, still made positive.

I say so not because of personal profitable moments that are not. I am for people - so that everyone is fine, salaries grew. All sorts of ballerinas - or who is Volochkova there? - They did not say that "who does not like it can leave the country." This is complete nonsense. Already, everyone drove away - the main brains. I believe that this should not be.

- From your long speech, I realized that Putin was sitting in power.

- Well, yes, so.

- What do you not like in his management of the country?

- Lawlessness. Is he 20 years old already? In law, we did not particularly grow during this time. The players only the poor were punished, showed as they could.

Another claim - he sits for a long time, does not give anyone.

- 70% of the country vote for him, all people for him.

- Unfortunately, 70% is really not needed. What I say now, many will perceive so that I am some kind of agent, although I speak my opinion. Even if I am mistaken, I speak sincerely and with good intentions.

Yes, and they vote for him, because there is no other worthy option. This is due to the fact that there is no freedom of speech. There are no channels that grandmothers would tell the truth. There is only Navalny with three million subscribers, but this is not enough.

Our mistake is that we treat him as a super man. But he is the same as us, and, in theory, serves us. I have no relation to him that he is a superman.

- Marat Safin told me that the president is elected, there are half a percent in the country. With such willpower, so that he would delve into everything, smart, enlightened.

- Of course, he should be like that. But our main mistake - although there are a lot of them - that everyone thinks: "We have no one has no one to Vladimir Vladimirovich."

But this is nonsense. How many millions are we in the country, and there is not a single such person? And it’s better to eat, in any way.

I was in the White House, I greeted Obama by the hand. Then there were still the views of Vladimir Vladimirovich. That's how he greeted him (despite him and turning away - Sports.ru). In a joke, we have a type of grater with America. It was funny. He looked at me like that: "A fool, or what?" Then I was just in hockey, I only began to read the news two years ago.

When we won the youth world championship, we were collected on the arrival of Vladimir Vladimirovich . He arrived, he saw us for two minutes. In my opinion, I didn’t even sorry for his hand, because I stood behind-it was not to break through.

- What channels are you watching now?

- “Echo of Moscow”, Navalny a couple of times, “Rain”. I like these more than our channels, “the first” - in general, a nightmare. I realized how horror is happening.

- How did you understand this?

- It is enough for a person to see the two sides, and he will understand everything. No need to be super. You have to be open to another opinion.

It seems to me that if I sit down now and “Channel One” will look at 24 hours, not looking up from the chair, I will say that the whole world of devils, except us. But this does not happen. Normal people live there too.

- That is, you became, in fact, an oppositionist?

- You should not say so sharply. I just do not support power. It all started with the film Navalny about Medvedev . After that he sat: "Hmm." And he began to watch other things. It seems to me that they are true.

- In the spring, you published a post on Instagram (from a rally on Sakharov Avenue) and wrote: “How can you be so afraid of your citizens? Who thinks what? Where are we going? ” What did you mean?

-(Laws on) not to insult power and fake-nu. Who will check this news there? They will decide for themselves that fake, that is not a fake?

Everything is clear what will happen. They want to do anything, still do not insult them. Everyone insults me on the Internet when I lose, and it's okay.

- “To do anything” - how is it?

- They do not always do everything right. To do this, there is journalism, freedom of speech - to point them to errors, to show the other side. If there is no competition, then you are not so effective.

- There is an opinion that they throw a lot on power, try to shake the situation. All this is coming from the West, America. And the state must somehow defend himself. It is protected, accepting such laws so that foreign agents do not shake.

- I probably look like a foreign agent now. In fact, this is not so.

I believe that people who are silent about problems are more foreign agents than those who talk about them.

If I think about problems, then only from the other side that something changes. So that people live well, and pensioners do not get.

-They say not all at once: you remember the poor 90s. It’s better to live now.

- Now exactly the same.

- Revenues are growing - have you not heard?

-Ha ha ha ha. Well, yes, they grow. And prices are rising too, but in different ways with income. There are few changes, they are almost gone. People have no work. There is nothing to catch on.

We have two cities that are developing: Peter and Moscow. For example, in America, cities are developed due to the fact that taxes remain on the state. We have a lot to go to Moscow, respectively, people in the regions work for Moscow. This is unfair, as it always seemed to me.

“Are you not afraid what kind of words will fly to you for all these words?”

- Afraid.

- From whom can theoretically?

- To be honest, I don't care. I'm telling the truth, honestly. And how can it fly for it if a person is different? What the hell do you have such a question at all - will it fly to me or not? It should not be. I should not fly. For what? I said my opinion: they make a mistake, the people do not say (about problems), there are less competition. The country has less progress. ] § [

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