The results of the week. "Filtered foot and mouth disease virus develops especially rapidly in organisms weakened by nicotine, alcohol and ... excesses are bad ..."
Part I. The old password: "Damn it!"
Crime and Punishment
This week a trial was held over a man who was selling the secrets of controlling the intercontinental ballistic missile "Bulava" to representatives of foreign countries. Caught in Yaroslavl in the act, “Judah” is called Alexander Gniteyev. Information that the "low-paid" was an employee of a special enterprise of Avtomatika them. Academician N. A. Semikhatov, confirmed. At a closed court hearing, the Gniteyev received a “severe” punishment, in the judge’s opinion, eight years in prison and as many as 100 (!) Thousand rubles of fine. At the same time, the maximum penalty of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on clause on treason defines 20 for years in places not so remote and the 500 is a thousandth penalty (also, of course, not quite “don't wait for me, mother,” but still). Yes, if at all times we had such punishments for the sale of the Motherland, then the Russian army today would be armed, at best, with ever-memorable maces and spears and wall bathes with cobblestones as the main striking force ...
No, well, many will say: they say, the engineer received little, you need to feed the family - that and that, but so what happens: everyone who has an unimpressive salary should also go to secret objects, look out, elicit and photograph, and then look for the generous customers for other “photo shoots” from overseas - so what? Following this logic, Gniteyev is generally well done - he did it during the deep financial crisis to find a stable source of income for himself ...
And eight years in prison for high treason (Joseph Vissarionovich turned over in his grave) - well, I'm sorry, some kind of mockery ... A remarkable comment allowed himself to do on the microblog Dmitry Rogozin about punishment for Gniteyev: “If they gave 80, there would be less hunters ". It’s really hard to argue with that.
And then, after all, we ourselves are still surprised why this Russian defense industry began to give up its position, why Russian military equipment on the world market is also not always impressive for foreigners. And why should they be impressed and spend a lot of money on its purchase, when you can spend a sum that is 100 less, fold it off with the same Gniteyev, so that they can provide “useful materialchik” - think about it, 8 years, and we still have amnesty, exemplary behavior, pardon etc. You look, in a couple of years this “Sell“ Bulava ”at a discount” will be released to freedom, and it will find another “low-paying” place where you can take something over the hill ...
Gambit from Alexey Kudrin
Apparently, it was a bit annoying to go to the ardent oppositionists of the current government to the mouthpiece of the Russian democracy, Alexei Kudrin. The other day, he even allowed himself an unequivocal hint that, in principle, he was ready to return to the Russian government again if he was personally proved that this very government had taken a course for reform. Amazing words! It turns out that Alexey Leonidovich himself is positioning himself as some kind of litmus test, which in case of something will show: there will be reforms in Russia or not. Like, if Russia sees in the new Cabinet of Ministers of Mr. Kudrin, then, they say, the reforms have already gone, and if they don’t see, so - stagnation, swamp, “prison of nations”, in general ...
Well done, Kudrin (you will not say anything) skillfully got out of the situation in which he was left behind the government board. However, this is not all: Alexei Kudrin decided, as is customary to speak at the world hockey championships, to put his first five on the ice. In an interview with Finam FM radio station, the ex-minister said he was on friendly terms with Vladimir Putin. This trump card is such a trump card! .. Apparently, thus Kudrin hints, as it were, to Dmitry Medvedev that he (Kudrin) has a far greater chance of getting into the bull's eye than Dmitry Anatolyevich himself determines. And after all, indeed, there will be a very interesting government in our country if Alexey Leonidovich again finds himself in it, whom the authorities accused of “whispering” in Washington. How, then, to still be with 20 trillions to modernize the army, which Kudrin, when he was finance minister, so stubbornly did not want to allocate, which is why he turned out to be among the "dissenters", but not in the Government building, but on Moscow streets surrounded other fiery fighters.
Apparently, Mr. Kudrin understands that porridge cannot be cooked at all these processions and rallies, so he probes new moves leading closer to higher cabinets than the one he occupies today - the office of the head of the Civil Initiatives Committee. Yeah, not the vice premier post ...
What disagree disagree
It so happened - by chance or quite deliberately - but the participants of the protest "seats and festivals" chose Kudrinskaya Square as one of the seats of their seats and festivities. However, the Moscow riot police did not appreciate the hints of those who had gathered at the ex-minister, who again marks members of the Russian Government, and carried out "explanatory" work about the fact that large groups in Moscow cannot be long-term meetings. This time, riot policemen did not particularly stand on ceremony with the “walkers” and showed, without special floridity, why the formation itself, such as the riot police, actually exists. A remarkable episode preceded the work of the riot police when a certain young man rolled out on rollers into the square and began to demonstrate to others around his manhood. Apparently, after the episode with the battered “pregnant woman” on the “March of Millions”, those who disagreed began to designate their sex beforehand - not something that didn’t happen. All those present appreciated the very “affiliation”, when suddenly the scooter took it and even slashed itself through the veins, shouting that he was doing all this in protest. Well, he slashed it slightly, so that he could still calmly go to the nearest square and do his tricks there. Further, the opposition tried to pacify this figure of "folk art", but he did not give in to "his own". As a result, a fight broke out that completely disoriented even excessively democratic media. A person, it seems, like the very Baba Yaga from a famous cartoon, is against, but only, as it turned out, he is also against the speakers themselves ...
This episode very eloquently shows what people are participating in this whole May series of rallies and seats of dissent. Someone does not agree with the fact that he is not given the right and left to show his dignity. Someone does not agree that they forbid him, sorry, going to the toilet directly to the flower beds with tulips. Someone does not agree with the fact that he is not allowed to gurgle songs for five nights in a row after midnight under the windows of residential houses. And someone himself does not know what he specifically disagrees with, but he knows that he still disagrees with something ...
In this regard, it is advisable to create special places for dissenting all stripes, where by admission tickets or flyers you can disagree as many times as you like. There are plenty of such places in Russia where you can disagree with a shovel or a rake in your hands: unrepaired roads, uncleaned squares, and for those aged from 18 to 27 years, which, by the way, includes the same scooter - Army, after all. Put on a bulletproof vest, grabbed a company machine gun (only without ammunition) and do not agree in your gas mask, how many will fit, run to the battalion shooting range ...
"Eight" used
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev arrived in the United States to attend the G8 Summit. At Villa Laurel, he met with Barack Obama, who must have turned off all unnecessary microphones throughout the entire territory before the conversation ... But Medvedev could bring with him ... After a good American dinner, politicians identified a range of issues that will be discussed at the Camp Summit David Questions, I must say, classic - the Middle East, North Africa, Iran, North Korea - in general, as in the classical school parent meeting: about those who have already nakkodil, and how to resist those who no no no yes take noshkodit. The American side categorically refused to discuss the missile defense issue in Europe, arguing that Vladimir Putin was absent at the meeting. “Enku” Obama put Putin in the magazine, and Medvedev apparently spoke about the problem of the European Missile Defense, as a well-known character from the “Diamond Hand”: “N-no! I can’t go for it! ”
In general, it is worth expecting that the Camp David summit will rather resemble the way the heads of state who consider themselves to be a big-eight such eight will discuss problems that had time to burn their teeth. To be honest, even the language hardly turns today to call this organization big. Maybe, even the 15-20 years ago, the same Italy could easily have been attributed to this association, but now it’s strange to call any organization “big” without the presence of, for example, China or India, to put it mildly ... By the way, let's not forget that voices are being heard from the West that it would be time to exclude Russia from G8 for Putin's demarche. Well, if such a deduction takes place, then the whole organization will definitely have to be renamed from the Big Eight to Big Zilch or to the Organization of Countries with Record Debts on the Economy. Such a name will be much more accurate to correspond to the essence of this strange formation, about the expediency of membership in which Russia has long had time to think about itself ...
Boris Abramovich on quarantine
The new criminal term may be shabotat the main guardian of human rights in Russia, "in exile," Mr. Berezovsky. Many have left in memory his open letter addressed to Putin, in which Boris Abramovich urged Vladimir Vladimirovich “to avoid a bloody revolution” and not to go for a new presidential term. Of course, it was always clear from London how best to conduct business in Moscow, but this time Boris was decided to show that he was wrong. It was not anyone who decided to strike the letter-writer, but Comrade Zheleznyak was not a sailor, but also a party sailor. Based on the initiated verification, the Prosecutor General’s Office found in a letter to Boris Abramovich appeals to disrupt the federal elections and other extremist words. And now the main struggle is not even between the BAB and the Russian justice, but between the same Sergey Zheleznyak (United Russia) and the investigator Maxim Moskalets, who decided to refuse, without waiting for the results of the examination of Berezovsky’s letter, to initiate a criminal case.
Generally with this letter storyfriends, tangled. Even such an episode is connected with him (by letter): Alexey Venediktov himself (the chief editor of the radio station Ekho Moskvy) decided to delete the letter of Boris Abramovich, which he published on the Echo website. Well, well, good people, for Echo of Moscow it will be worse than the deputy to disrupt the flasher and go by metro from his company car with his working hands ... It turns out that Boris Abramovich has some magic power. One has only to come from the Foggy Albion to several lines, which this man has hooked after another portion of whiskey with oatmeal, so the whole show begins in Russia, in which both cooks and lawmakers take an active part. Wasn’t Boris Abramovich himself trying to achieve this by publishing his “program speeches” on the Internet? .. It’s a pity that many in Russia still take Mr. Berezovsky too seriously. A person may be just bored in this gray London - imagine yourself: he will wander around the gloomy Tower in an impenetrable fog, where not a single Russian birch tree will want him to play his appeals to Russia and Russians on the keyboard. He would have to go south, to the waters - to heal. Resorts of Krasnodar Region are waiting for you, dear Boris Abramovich ...
Part II. inject Robotsman breathing
You may not be a poet, but you must be an algorithm
Emotional Nikita Khrushchev, the initiator of socialist competition with overseas capitalist United States, once pushed from the party tribunes loud talk about "catch up and overtake America." Khrushchev dismissed Brezhnev, with whom “stagnation” came, and there, after a short reign of comrades-General Andropov and Chernenko, Gorbachev's sinister figure emerged on the historical frontier, followed by the true Democrat Yeltsin with “Moskvich”, market reforms, vouchers, October XXHIM go, "default" 1993-th and other political miracles. And it just so happened that Nikita Sergeevich's pure communist dream came true only in the second decade of the 21st century.
No, it's not about corn. Who in the twenty-first century will show off agricultural achievements? Unless backward countries come from somewhere in the third world. Even Kenya is now talking about oil production - true, by the British, not by Kenyans - and not by any kind of tea or coffee.
If something to compare at the present time, it is high technology. Russia is considered a “developing” country in the West? .. But let's see. We will start not with Russia, but directly with the mother of all progressive technologies - the USA.
13 May the World стало известноthat in leading American publications, such as Forbes magazine, people are working, not robots, but journalists. No, not squeaky pieces of iron, speaking with mechanical voices, - like characters from fantastic books and films, - but computer programs that give out texts to order: for example, about New York Times earnings. Under the robostatic - signature: "By Narrative Science". Such a “pseudonym” is a program that uses a certain set of algorithms: data at the input, words at the output.
Western journalists are already sounding the alarm: they are afraid of losing their jobs in the industry News. Texts compiled by the program cannot be distinguished from texts written by living people. "What progress has come to! .."
One of the reasons for the celebration of robotics in the newspaper and magazine industry in America is the financial crisis. The New York Times or the Washington Post are not only worried about reducing their incomes, but are also thinking that the US news industry is waiting for an apocalypse. The catastrophe will cover both large and medium newspaper brands. What can I say: in the past five years, a whole wave of newspaper closures and bankruptcies has swept across the States. The market for advertising and print media continues to shrink rapidly. Things reached the point that the New York Times is looking for a new executive director - with experience not in journalism at all, but in the IT industry.
If the Western world to the introduction of new technologies in journalism has led the economic crisis, in a prosperous Russia - the picture is different. One Russian journalist (real, lively), NTV worker, at the end of last year, became famous for his high-tech experiment as an eminent poet who was accepted as a member of the Writers' Union of Russia for his touching lyrical poems, giving in addition a premium diploma, the Yesenin Order and promising soon publish his poetic collection in eight languages, including Chinese.
The presentation of a modestly published booklet of a new Russian talent — for a modest banquet — did not take place anywhere, but at the Central House of Writers in Moscow. 11 December 2011 plot was shown on television.
For the “composing” of the poems by the correspondent (hired to present the actor) was used program "Poet's Assistant".
I also tried this miracle of “artificial intelligence” today. Here are some program rhymes for the word "Putin": "Stalin", "brothers", "Mayakovsky", "juices", "yulil", "Susanin", "showdown", "genius".
But the whole poem:
Thus, poetically and ironically (to the Moscow organization), a tuned comrade under the pseudonym Boris Sivko (бEd grayой towere) became famous as early as December 2011, thus being ahead of the USA with their prosaic robots for the whole six months.
Russians immediately take the bull by the horns: while in the States they carefully try economic journalism, our magnificent Boria Sivko swings at high poetry - at a place not close to Pushkin, not to Pasternak ...
1941-1945 Conflict
US Ambassador to Uzbekistan George Krol 7 May said: “The conflict that ended 67 years ago united countries and peoples who, as allies, fought for a common cause, among them the peoples of Uzbekistan and the United States of America.”
Uzbek journalist Kozim Usmanov did not like the historical inaccuracies that the American ambassador admitted in his free speech.
8 May Usmanov did not agree with the ambassador that 67 years ago there was a "conflict": "... just a conflict. The type of brawl. Did not share something with someone Mr. Hitler. " Secondly, the interpretation of the events of the middle of the last century, according to the journalist, is historically extremely doubtful: after all, the very concept of the Great Patriotic War (or “conflict”) applies to the USSR, and not to Uzbekistan as such.
With Usmanov difficult to argue. The reader is more likely to relate the fresh version that the Uzbeks and Americans acted in a regional conflict against the Germans with the bold pen of Nosovsky and Fomenko or other historians of the “new wave” rather than with the speech of the envoy of the great and enlightened America, daily stuffing the world with teachings on how to live this world.
The angry journalist ended his article with these words: “... According to serious experts, the current US ambassador to Uzbekistan, unlike his predecessor, increasingly resembles a mediocre actor of a provincial theater, trying to please a respectable public than a serious diplomat authoritative state. We assume that the opinion is wrong or biased, but it has taken shape, and nothing can be done about it. ”
Ambassador J. Krol familiarized himself with the text of the article by Usmanov at uzmetronom.com - and then there was a whole story about the opposition of Uzbek journalism and American freedom-loving diplomacy.
10 May uzmetronom.com journalist was denied participation in a meeting of representatives of the press of Uzbekistan with interlocutors in the US Embassy in Tashkent. Reason for refusal: publication of the article “George Krol confused Uzbekistan with the USSR”.
So that relations between Uzbek journalism and the American diplomatic mission in Tashkent again become warm and friendly. The American ambassador asked the Internet publication to start writing a note from the portal, and also write to him, Krol, a personal letter of apology.
The answer to Krol 11 May already wrote Sergey Yezhkov, refused to remove the note, and the letter to the ambassador wrote. True, not personal, but open, - from which below are a few phrases:
“Dear Mr. Ambassador. The editors sincerely regret that the opinion expressed about you on our information resource does not coincide with your personal opinion about yourself - your beloved. Forgive us generously. We are aborigines, who recently got off the tree, have no idea about democratic values, freedom of the press and other achievements of progressive humanity, which were founded by the great United States.
Nevertheless, in terms of simplicity of soul and genetic naivety, the editors assumed that the head of the diplomatic mission of the state, which positions itself as the cradle of democracy, would perceive the opinions of others somewhat differently, even if it is extremely unpleasant for him. At least, not as a high-school student, who by misunderstanding or oversight was put on uniform diplomatic pants ... "
In the last lines of the letter S. Yezhkov expressed the hope that “there are still enough diplomats in the holder of the US State Department”.
What passions are in full swing! .. But all that was needed was to agree to the introduction of censorship and the American version of the history of the 20th century.
The American ambassadors are now fatally unlucky in the territory of the former USSR. For Michael McFaul, who embassy in Moscow without a year a week and who never ceases to be surprised at the level of anti-Americanism in Moscow, it is necessary stand up to american journalists: “Obama must confront Putin’s presidency. To begin with, he must restore elementary respect and not allow Putin's thugs to intimidate the American ambassador in Moscow, which is a gross violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Obama should simply inform Putin that he is not going to meet with him until the attacks on Michael McFaul cease. Putin understands hard language. ”
So let J. Krol rejoice that the Motherland sent him to serve in Uzbekistan, and not to Russia - where “Putin's thugs” are raging in the dark alleys near Red Square. His colleague McFaul does not stutter about history, but everything is only justified because of the “grantees” and “non-governmental organizations” that bred in Moscow and the regions - the very, completely free and democratic, leaders and participants of which in unfree times of the USSR would have caught after heartfelt conversations in the offices of the KGB for ten years in prison. In those imperial times, both McFaul, and Krol, and their boss in the White House would truly know what a "hard language" is.
Russia and America will not allow violence of demonstrators over police
There are, however, some democratic points on which America and Russia adjoined and seem to have almost reached agreement. Sooner, gentlemen and comrades, to put an end to the "reset". American foreign policy took an unexpected turn.
But first, the parties exchanged mutual reports.
In April, the US Department of State 2011 published the annual report about the situation with respect for human rights in the world; The report was presented in public by Hillary Clinton. Russia appeared in the text of this document as one of the main characters. The country, which by democratic parameters would be worse than Russia, didn’t try to find a speaker much. Found only the same bad ones - Belarus and Ukraine.
There are no free elections in Russia, law enforcement officers use violence against the civilian population, illegal detentions and politically motivated arrests are made. The right of citizens to meet is limited, and it’s impossible to hold actions on the streets at all: fiercely staring and waving batons and law enforcement officers hung around with handcuffs everywhere. There is no freedom of speech in the country either, because the state controls a significant number of Russian media, and the rest of the press is systematically suppressed by the Kremlin. As for a small number of non-repressive journalists, they have to limit their sudden creative impulses to self-censorship.
The Russians, after reading the American report, sat down to write their own with insult and enthusiasm. Throughout the world, and especially in America, there were so many democratic flaws that report from 90 pages was presented only on New Year's Eve. It was presented by Konstantin Dolgov, whose position is called difficult and lengthy: authorized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law. This very post appeared just in April of 2011, probably in response to another annoying American report. It’s necessary for someone and us to write reports on human rights violations in the world, and first of all in America - because from it, beloved, report and was started. It is dedicated to as many 20 pages.
In the United States, torture flourishes, and secret CIA prisons operate. As regards freedom of speech, America occupies not the first, but the twentieth place in the world. (Does Russia matter: managed from 2009 to 2010 to rise from 153-th place to 140-th). In the States, they are being tried for cooperation with WikiLeaks, they are dismissing media employees for politically incorrect statements, and the police are detaining journalists covering the З Capture Wall Street ’action. The United States is a source of violations of international law, racism and Islamophobia. In America, there is the death penalty, and while justice is often mistaken. The Russian Foreign Ministry is also concerned about the problem of “mass executions of innocent citizens by mentally unhealthy persons”, which in an advanced democratic country does not enter any gate.
Deputy State Department spokesman Mark Toner said at the outset that he would carefully review the report, and then he took it. Probably after reading the NN America 20 pages, Toner opened his eyes.
For after the Russian events of 6 in May, Mr. Toner did not, according to the long-standing habit of the American democrats, talk about the endless violations of human rights in Russia, but expressed himself somewhat unexpectedly. 8 May at a press briefing State Department spokesman said the following: “We are concerned with images showing how the police deal with peaceful demonstrators during protests and after detentions ... the Secretary of State said today that we want Russia to fully realize its potential, which means giving people the opportunity to freely express themselves. At the same time, we are concerned about reports of violence that small groups of demonstrators use against law enforcement officials ... ”
And when one journalist asked Toner if the current situation would negatively affect the beginning of the new term of President Putin, he replied: “I don’t think so ...”
If we take into account that during the May 6 protest actions, more than four dozen law enforcement officers suffered, then the statement of the wise Toner acquires the clear meaning of a message from one democratic country to another democratic country. Moreover, Mark Toner compared the events in Moscow with the pogroms and the reaction of law enforcement in London, saying that the United States is related to both equally.
Now, the Moscow opposition seems to have to look for another external ally: America now believes that law enforcement officers are the ones who understand human rights best of all. And that is true: words are like-root.
Russian Foreign Ministry did not keep silent and this time. Of course, Toner said good about the Russian law enforcement officers, but the words that the Americans "are concerned about the images, showing how the police deal with peaceful demonstrators during the protests and after the arrests," the Foreign Ministry did not like. 17 May on the Internet was posted текст the comment of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia on human rights, democracy and the rule of law K. Dolgov, given to them about the measures used in the West to combat social protests.
The text was short: only three paragraphs. Thus, apparently, the States made it clear that they are satisfied with the latest response of the State Department. In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry noted demonstrations and protests of disgruntled citizens in the United States and "cases of disproportionate use of force against peaceful demonstrators." Traditionally referred to and "double standards." American politicians are advised not to give in to emotions and not to allow politicized interpretations of facts. And it's all.
Undoubtedly, Barack Obama - especially on the days of the G8 summit, where protests of the Occupy Wall Street movement are expected - can now speak from the bottom of their hearts about the progress of relations between the US and Russia. That autumn day, when either the United States slides to the bottom of the list on freedom of speech, closer to the 140-th place, or Russia jumps to the twentieth, the most talented robot will write about this in the Forbes magazine.
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