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Vladimir Putin on the rostrum of the stadium in Beijing during the opening of the Winter Olympic Games –2022. On the Internet, this photograph has already received its unique signature - "Autumn Patriarch"
The Russian team at the opening of the winter games went under the flag of the Russian Olympic Committee. The Russian tricolor was sewn with a special insert on the left forearm of the jackets of athletes.
During the broadcast, which was broadcast by the state channel Russia 1, the Russians did not see the Russian president.
Later, the Kremlin pool spread the photo of Putin, sitting alone in the sector allocated for him. On the Internet, this photograph quickly received the name "Autumn of the Patriarch" - an allusion to the famous novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez dedicated to absolute power.
If you believe the photographs from the stadium, then the Russian president was the only one who sat without a mask during the opening ceremony of winter games-2022. The leader of China, chairman of Xi Jinping, took off the mask only in order to pronounce the words of greetings to the athletes.
In the morning of the same day, Putin and SI were negotiating, as a result of which a joint statement was adopted.
The Russian team performs at the Olympics without state symbols - flag and anthem, since the country has been prohibited from participating in the Olympic Games as a result of the VADA investigation , the World Anti -Doping Agency, which convicted the Russian state in the fact that Russian athletes used doping under its subsidiary eye.
However, the International Olympic Committee decided not to punish the athletes themselves, who were not convicted of the use of prohibited medicines. That is why the Russian team goes under the flag of the Russian Olympic Committee, but there is no symbols of Russia - the flag and the anthem itself - at the Olympics.
