Undermining by Sergey Lavrov
More than a month has passed since the signing of the presidential decree on the release of the Russian ambassador to Qatar, Vladimir Titorenko, from his post. And if at first this event was quite calm, the other day the name of the ex-ambassador reappeared on the front pages of Russian newspapers. It would seem that with the dismissal of Ambassador Titorenko everything is quite obvious. After the incident at the airport of the capital of Qatar, Doha with the attack of representatives of Qatari security officials on the Russian diplomat and people accompanying him, with an external goal to pick up diplomatic mail, and after lowering the diplomatic relations with Qatar, it would be hardly expected that Titoren would return to his former place of work. It is obvious that after a blatant incident, when the ambassador received serious injuries at the hands of the subjects of the state in which he had the mission to work with 2009, Vladimir Titorenko himself did not feel like wanting to continue his work at his previous post. In general, everything went to the fact that after treatment and recovery, Titorenko could offer a new position in the diplomatic mission of the Russian Federation in another country. However, the situation turned in such a way that the ex-ambassador became involved in a serious scandal with new secrets and revelations.
An allegedly open letter appeared on the portal of the Agency for Federal Investigations, published on behalf of some employees of the Russian Foreign Ministry. In this letter, in particular, it is reported that Vladimir Titorenko, in the autumn of last year, repeatedly reported to Moscow that anti-Russian sentiments were growing in Qatar related to the position of the Russian authorities on Syria. It is also said in the letter that Titorenko asked to call the Qatari ambassador "on the carpet" in order to protest against the rhetoric of Qatar towards Russia. However, as the authors of this scandalous letter are sure, the top foreign ministry of Russia did not respond to the ambassador’s requests, which actually gave the Qataris the green light to any action against Vladimir Titorenko. It is also stated that allegedly Titorenko was unprofitable as an ambassador to neither Qatar and his major oil companies, nor the American Exxon Mobil, nor the top of the Russian Foreign Ministry. This is due to the fact that Russia did not want to spoil bilateral relations with Qatar, and Ambassador Titarenko literally interfered with the positive development of these relations. That diplomat with the connivance of Moscow and suffered - in fact, the main idea of the letter.
However, in all this stories There are several pitfalls. First, if the Foreign Ministry officials decided to open the public’s eyes to the fact that the department’s leadership decided to leave Titoren one-on-one with the Qatari problem, then why wasn’t the most obvious information ground chosen? Usually, such sites are chosen that will be able to convey the words of the authors of the publication to hundreds of thousands, or even millions of Russians. And with all due respect, the Agency of Federal Investigations is difficult to attribute to such sites. Secondly, if the “group of employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation,” as the authors call themselves, went along the path of disclosures, then such a lengthy signature under the letter compromises them themselves. It turns out that the authors of the publication knew about Titorenko’s requests for pressure on Qatar, but decided to give out their materials only a few weeks after the ambassador was relieved of his post. Thirdly, in connection with the “letter”, publications appeared in other Russian publications, which decided that the Russian authorities allowed the dismissal of Ambassador Titorenko to divert the attention of the Russian public from the “grandiose foreign policy failure” of Russia in the Middle East.
All these three tracks, obviously, lead to the main "culprit" last event Sergey Lavrov. It is obvious that there are some political forces that are not profitable for Mr. Lavrov to leave the post of foreign minister. And the situation with the beating of Ambassador Titorenko and the fact that Lavrov didn’t react to this “in any way” is quite suitable for a political injection to the current head of the Foreign Ministry, because today Sergey Lavrov’s activities in society are not subject to such harsh criticism as the work of a number of other federal ministers.
At the same time, supporters of the version of the “laurel-Medvedev plot” skillfully use this situation for their own purposes. It seems to be outwardly, according to the authors of the publication, everything is obvious: on one side, experienced diplomat Titorenko, who has a high state award for his work in Iraq, and on the other side, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is trying to hide his mistakes. But if this is so, then it is completely incomprehensible what mistakes are meant here: is it possible that a drop in diplomatic relations with Qatar is a sensible and civilized response to the unlawful actions of Qatari special services. Or the authors of the article suggested that Sergey Lavrov should give a command to the “Moscow scuffle” regarding the Qatari ambassador in order to respond to insidious Qatar. Well, if Russia responded to all provocations of this kind, then many foreign ambassadors in Moscow would have, frankly, tight. Yes, and would solve such a move that same Qatari problem? Obviously not. This would only be an extra reason to accuse Moscow of being uncivilized and wild. McFaul won no one with a finger, but he already: “Wild country, wild people ...”
People who have decided to start an escalation of this scandal, accuse the head of the Russian foreign ministry also that he allegedly at one time deigned to allow a number of obscene words in a telephone conversation with the British foreign minister, which denigrates the dignity of the whole Russian Federation. Such information is published by The Daily Telegraph newspaper columnist, stating that Lavrov behaved quite undiplomatically, stating that Miliband has no right to tell him how Russia should behave in relations with Georgia.
It is strange that just a few weeks before the inauguration of Vladimir Putin and the announcement of the new composition of the Government, one after another, materials began to appear that are directed against the current Russian Foreign Minister. And the authors of these materials are obviously ready to use any facts in the interests of someone who has already looked after the chair of the foreign minister.
In this situation, it is frankly unpleasant to realize that the scandal was decided to link up with Vladimir Titorenko, who himself is obviously far from blaming Sergey Lavrov in the same incident at Doha airport. And while Titorenko himself will not give his comments on this, the number of speculations will only grow.
Well, about Qatar, you can say one thing. This dwarf, but overly ambitious state with its main sponsors has already broken its teeth about our country's position on Syria. And this is a very eloquent response to those who are confident that Russia in the Middle East has “failed.” And the words of the UN Permanent Representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, regarding the “military power of Qatar”, whether they took place or not, obviously left an unpleasant aftermath from the Qatari authorities, who decided to answer diplomatic questions with their fists.
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