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"The problem that Sokurov spoke about showed the powerlessness of power and Putin in this matter."
On December 9, the next meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC) with the President of Russia was held, during which there was a conflict between Vladimir Putin and director Alexander Sokurov, who spoke in his speech that "Russia must be changed." The President, commenting on this performance, advised the director to "think" before speaking and was generally clearly annoyed. Alexander Sokurov told the correspondent of North. Real about his vision of the conflict with Putin.
In his report, as part of a meeting of the HRC with Putin, Alexander Sokurov touched many topics, stood up for the historian Yuri Dmitriev, who was sitting under the house arrest of the former St. Petersburg deputy Maxim Reznik, for the Akhmed Barakhoev, Sautiev and other Ingush activists, urged not to drive throughout the country. Opposition youth, ”and to think about how to improve life in the regions of Russia, suggested that they let them go to the will of those republics of the North Caucasus that do not want to live with Russia, called for redistribution to budget subsidies from Belarus, Abkhazia, Syria and the southern regions of the country, which are“ for contentment ”, in favor of the extinctioning Russian north, finally, to save the old village Puddles, in which the indigenous people lives the indigenous people and who want to destroy in the interests of the gas processing complex.
Putin reacted sharply, accusing Sokurov of unprofessionalism, of rash speeches, that he, speaking of the reluctance of some republics to remain in Russia, wants "a repetition of Yugoslavia in our territory." Putin repeated several times that even Sokurov is not permissible to say that someone is in Russia, that such conversations are “dangerous toys” and that it was impossible to make such considerations into public space.
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on the dialogue of the director and president, saying that Sokurov had touched many important topics “unprofessional and without knowledge of the subject”, and this is “something that the president does not tolerate”. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has already urged to check Sokurov’s words for anti -stateism and extremism.
In an interview with the North. Reali, Alexander Sokurov commented on these statements by Kadyrov: "I do not want to say a word about this person, there is too much honor - I can talk about him. Let what he said, comments on the president. Let the presidential administration commented on, this is its business."
Regarding the obvious irritation of President Putin, Sokurov, the director, in an interview with our publication, said the following : “I am a citizen of the Russian Federation, I have one passport and one nationality, Russia is the most important for me, and I am already at the age when you begin to feel the responsibility for life in this country. If I step on to someone’s pain points-but what about civil society and citizen, if not for this? Yes, I said sharply, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes?? I interrupted it, forgive me for this, but I have such people in the country and there are many such possibilities, except to break through and like this, all the many complex problems, and the political, and the problems of war and the world, and the terrifying situation in Ingushetia, since it is unconstitutional, and I believed that it was important to listen to everything that it says. Apparently, despite his age, and he does not need to wait for anything else from me Age, it is already more important than you, is more important than the mistakes - well, I am doing them once.
Meanwhile, on social networks, an unexpected discussion between the president and director and the reaction to this discussion of the head of Chechnya caused a rather violent reaction.
Of course, what Sokurov said, not only “should not be pronounced aloud“ publicly ”, but on the contrary, it should be the subject of permanent discussion in society, in parliament, in the media. Like much, much more, which is more correctly destroyed, the more he is conceived, it is noticeable under the carpet. Of course, an impermissible public official to talk with the country's citizen-publicly-publicly-publicly-publicly-publicly Speaking to him and explaining that he does not understand his responsibility, and of course, in the same tone of the calm, allegedly based on knowledge, and not on violence, superiority, with the same confidence that this is precisely what Russia is given, all orders are given to the murder of political opponents and the departure of property.
Sokurov did not say anything new, but just repeated Solzhenitsyn’s words, but Putin gave the first to the first, and called the second the true patriot of Russia, for it was said in the Scripture: “The Heart of the Tsar is in the hand of the Lord, like flows of waters: where he wants, he directs him”
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Writer Viktor Shenderovich
Facebook turned around. Some are extremely unhappy with Muratov and Sokurov. These two were not brave enough! They said, they said, and everyone around me was: Putin was never called a killer. And our principality hardened in the kitchen is very suffering from this ...
The bike is half a century ago: in one academic feast, a conversation about the fashionable director came, and someone said about him: fighter! Peter Kapitsa gently corrected: not a fighter - a brawler ...
Yes, the words are close, but not synonyms.
Muratov and Sokurov are fighters. They beat on our side. The battle has been going on for not the first decade, and on our part there are many dead, but many saved.
Journalist Mikhail Tamm : “Alexander Sokurov is a brave man. This is important, and this causes very much respect. I’m very afraid that something bad will happen to him after this speech. It is very important to not allow this. But besides courage, it’s difficult for me to find something good in his speech. Firstly, what he says is simply wrong. Lukashenko does not need to be maintained not because it is expensive, but it is impossible to terrorize his people. “To let go of it, and does not want to go anywhere, it seems to me frankly stupid and harmful to conduct soul-saving conversations on philosophical topics with Putin-yes, you can talk about the rest-why?”
Political analyst Alexander Baunov compares Sokurov’s speech with the speech of Dmitry Muratov at the presentation of the latter Nobel Prize.
“The whole agenda is“ separated from Russia and be free, to separate from the republics and be free ”, this is some kind of percentage archaic from the time of Gorbachev’s struggle with Yeltsin, the relevance of which is now, for those youngest people, to whom Sokurov referred, just at a minimum ... In general, not every word thrown into the face of a tyrant becomes true from the fact of throwing. The agenda of half a century remains half a century later.
Twitter users believe that Alexander Sokurov should not have illusions about the Human Rights Council.
There was no dispute between Sokurov and Putin. There was an honest and frank, anguish in places, the performance of a member of the HRC and the reaction of the offended, who did not expect such words and the emotional pressure of Putin. I think that Sokurov was finally convinced of the meaninglessness of these meetings.
- 𝙆𝙖𝙢𝙖 (@starperiha) December 10, 2021
“Putin, of course, has a noble to the weaknesses of Sokurov’s speech ... They were,” Tamara Zilber writes . “But the main thing is that the president has bent noticeably, it’s not even that the director acted as the main sadder of the Russian land ... He has long known what can be expected from Sokurov, he would have stolen this intervention in the Caucasian“ Knot ”. Caucasian youth, about the appearance of the "padisha", in general that Russians do not like in the national outskirts and do not respect all this from the point of view of Putin, the forbidden sphere, where all "humanists" are not even supposed to poke their nose. "
Many users of social networks were expected to see Sokurov’s speech “The desire to ruin Russia”.
“Someone was surprised by Sokurov’s words? Why?” Asks the head of the RT channel Margarita Simonyan . “Is this not the same Sokurov who called for the release of the terrorist Sentsov, but me, Solovyov and other journalists, on the contrary, to imprison the support of the Donbass? Not the same Sokurov who demanded the return of our islands? He already got the order from the Japanese. Before Nobel to/Roskomnadzor/is. "
Let no one think that Sokurov made his proposal to the night. He is smart in his own way, even teaches students. This is a wolf in sheep's skin, and there are many of them. They lurked, keep silent, but these are good men! https://t.co/1hbeone5b pic.twitter.com/2nsqmajg4
- Avdotya Astrakantseva (@avdotia_astr) December 11, 2021
“History with Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov-it is clear that this topic was not in my daddy, so this is a very important part of the meeting,” writes Alexei Venediktov, the head of the Echo of Moscow radio station. “I recommend that everyone watch the transcript, and preferably the puin’s videos, because we suddenly saw a completely different Putin. This is that Putin never speaks publicly. This is a publicly n never says. Enthusiasm or irritation, he controls himself well that it was very strong, because the problem that Sokurov spoke is a problem, it is very painful for him, and he has no solution. showed the powerlessness of power and Putin in this matter. "
“For the noise, who is worse-Sokurov or Muratov, did not notice the main phrase of the day,” Anna Evseeva writes . “To the journalist’s question, whether Putin Sokurova will now arrest, Peskov answered-no, he treats him kindly. He didn’t even bother to come up with some kind of populist phrase, such as“ they didn’t put it on our opinions. ” If not for a kind ... although there are no guarantees now, the perfume factory works, improves the quality of aromas, and the perfumers are waiting for the FAS command ... "