"Russia is a country of very poor people whom the authorities are frightened by the fact that they will become even poorer"

Andrei Loshak told Yuri Dudya about the Order from Putin, the worst film of Parfyonov and respect for the Zumers

The hero of the new release of the UDUD Yetube show was a journalist, documentary Andrei Loshak. He told how his career took shape after NTV, how he refused to get an order from the hands of Vladimir Putin, why does not love Boris Yeltsin and for which he respects Zumers. Below a few quotes from the interviews (with contractions).

About the Order

I have the Order for Merit to the Fatherland to some degree. It still lies somewhere in the box. But no one handed it to me. It was 2007, I shot the film "Life Against the Rules" about punk movements. I shoot how some dudes do stencils “the state is a prison”, and Nikolai Kartosia calls me, [who was then the chief editor of the Profession-Reporter program on NTV]: “The Order signed the Order here, will be handed in the Kremlin”. It was some kind of package presentation of awards to televisors. I say: “Kolyan, no. What do you want to think of, but I will not go. " I did not refuse. I just merged.

About Russia

There is such an idea that Russia is a country of very poor people, whom the power of the Kleptocrats who have earned billions is frightened by the fact that with changes they will be even poorer. This is the whole story of “And you want like in the 90s”, “And you want like in Paris” it pumps up people with fear that they will plunge into even greater poverty. It is very difficult to call such people to barricades. This is probably the talent of Putin as a ruler. Do not allow people to become a middle class (because when the middle class begins to grow, what happened in Bolotnaya Square is happening) and not let go of hunger.

About Yeltsin

I have a fairly negative attitude towards the presidency of Boris Nikolaevich. It seems to me that in the 90s we had an awesome chance to make the country different. And we, including thanks to Yeltsin, have been stolen this chance. The final point is the appointment of Putin’s successor, who crossed out everything that was done. And of course, the first Chechen war, when Yeltsin sent soldiers-cones simply to death. And much more, and poverty, and poverty, and how people were thrown into the market element without rescue circles.

About the worst film Parfenov

When Parfenov was expelled from NTV, there was an Olympics of 2004 in Athens. I am an extremely distant person from sports - as, in fact, Lenya. But somehow it happened that he made this film ["O Peace, you are sport!" about the Olympics in Athens], and I was like furniture there; Sometimes we recorded stand -on for two. It seems to me that this is the worst film in the career of Parfenov. Well, I am there too in the credits. But I do not regret that I went to Athens. There I met a girl, a sports journalist, with whom we later lived together for a very long time.

About the zomers

It seems to me that the generation, which is called the generation Z, by the Zumers, turned out not at all bad. I found this on the set [of the documentary about the volunteers of the campaign of Alexei Navalny] “The age of disagreement” in 2017. This really inspires hope. These are other people, they want a different life. I have not seen anything more hopeless than the youth of the zero, which they drove to Seliger, and they drowned there for power without hesitation. And now young people are thinking not only about getting off or hanging, they think about the future.

Rethered by Olga Korelina