Results of the week. Black caviar! Red caviar! Caviar overseas, eggplant! ..
Part I. Again “understand, forgive ...”
In contact with Mavrodi
During the week, a couple of people, let's say, with a more than active citizenship, once again decided to show that even from any intellectual with glasses you can make the hero of some shameful reality show with guest “clappers” and “hooters”. The first comrade is Pavel Durov, who, along with his deputies for managing the social network Vkontakte, launched airplanes from the window of his St. Petersburg office with five thousand-dollar bills invested in them. The second comrade is the ever-memorable Sergey Mavrodi, who announced that the Russian state had provoked a panic on his new project MMM-2011, and now he (Mavrodi), they say, is forced (not of his own will, of course) to suspend payments to his depositors.
Both of these news shook the Russian segment of the Internet, although, by and large, such a wave - for our country is not news. Take, for example, the same Pavel Durov. Well, if a person is tired of using 5,000-dollar bills only in a corporate toilet, where no one can assess this, then why not arrange your hot-hot flashmob to just once again demonstrate how much better things are going for him than those who walk his feet on the St. Petersburg pavement. And the white-toothed smile of Durov, which flashed through the open window, when he “shared” with the people what he had earned by honest and overworking, and the people for that acquired broke each other's faces in the blood, it was clear that Mr. Durov decided to give us with you and bread and circuses. Well, just, damn it, the Roman Emperor Durov First some ...
And with Sergei Mavrodi perhaps story not repeated? Those citizens of Lyoni Golubkovy who trust their “demigod”, who want to “buy shoes for their wife” and receive at 400% per annum. The same non-judicial Sergey Panteleevich, who in his life managed to set up so many pyramids that some Cheops "nervously smokes" in his Egypt. Now here is the MMM-2012 to save the MMM-2011. It is not difficult to guess what will happen if this pyramidal “structure” begins to crumble. MMM-2013 will appear, then - 2014 Sochi Olympiad MMM and the chain will not end until the genes of the Leni Golubkov genus and admirers of Pavel Durov's “bill notes” roam Russia.
Timely treatment for excessive travel cravings
Last week, the site "Military Review" was told about the misadventures of Russian bikers in Iraq. Now the relatives of the “travelers” and the adventurers themselves can breathe easy, because the guys have returned home after several days spent in one of the most democratic dungeons of the world - the Iraqi prison. Recall that four Russians who wanted to “wash the wheels of motorcycles in the Persian Gulf” were detained on charges of illegally crossing the Iraqi border (according to the Iraqi side, bikers had fake Iraqi visas).
After the Russians returned home, one of them, Alexander Vardanyants, said that he did not quite understand why they decided to make heroes on the Internet. According to him, the bikers who turned out to be the main characters in this story are quoted, “not heroes, but idiots.”
And indeed, to argue with Alexander is difficult here, because Iraq is still not the Black Sea coast, where you can scream with the engines of your motorcycles, scaring sunbathers on the beaches. Apparently, the guys inspired such a journey with the well-known phrase that everything is calm in Baghdad. It turned out that the calm in the Iraqi capital is not exactly what the Russian adventurers expected from the back wheels of their motorcycles expected from it. Calmness, it’s like this: calmly detained, motorcycles are taken quietly, they are also beaten calmly ... But if it were not for the intervention of the Russian side, then our bikers could calmly and impose a penalty for espionage - in the form of the death penalty.
Now the guys plans for the future have changed somewhat. If a couple of weeks ago, they were eager to rush around Iraq, look later in Afghanistan, now, smearing the bruises from the calm blows of Iraqi law enforcement officers with green paint, bikers are increasingly thinking about calm motorcycle rides on Mother Russia among native birch trees.
Dont Lazari Now
Twelve years "Strogach" received a reserve colonel Vladimir Lazar, who was engaged in espionage activities in favor of the United States of America. A retired colonel (now a former retired colonel) is accused of transmitting raster topographic maps with secret military objects on them to representatives of American intelligence.
The work of the FSB in Mr. Lazar began after one of his colleagues in transmitting information over the hill “passed” him (it was in 2008 year). The programmer Gennady Sipachev, who had a rather strange hobby - collecting various kinds of geographical and topographic maps, including maps of military content, became the man who spoke about the activities of the colonel. He sold out many of these cards to interested parties, including Vladimir Lazar. "Collector", feeling the firm and friendly grip of the Russian special services, decided not to hold out for a long time and pointed to his buyer, for which he was "awarded" with a four-year term of strict regime. Now the whole four years, the Russians will not be able to use the software, which gave birth to the light programmer Sipachev, but for these four years he himself can get acquainted with a completely different "software", written in "blatant hair dryer." In connection with the increasing incidence of the sale of Russian state secrets, the system for the execution of punishments should already build a separate box for such as Sipachev, Lazar, Gniteyev and others like them. The walls and bunks of the cozy chambers of this box can be decorated with star-striped flags so that the guys do not forget about their “second homeland” ...
So collect after this ... After Sipachev's freedom, the craving for gathering will obviously diminish. By the way, those who also consider themselves a collector should give advice: right now, review all your brands, beer labels and, especially, herbariums, because quite unexpectedly it may turn out that American intelligence is already interested in them.
Like a sickle on the Poles ...
12 June on Russia Day in Warsaw will be a match between the football teams of Poland and Russia. This meeting attracts special attention now. Only now, for the most part, conversations are not about the preparation of teams and their capabilities, but about what will happen near the stadium. Russian football fans said they were going to arrange a small procession with Soviet flags in their hands and in red t-shirts and USSR inscriptions to support their favorite team.
Polish politicians got such news that reached Warsaw from Russia, if not a shock, then a state of knockdown. The fact is that during the recent time the Polish authorities have prohibited the use of Soviet symbols on the territory of their country. If suddenly the police on the streets of any Polish city see a person in a T-shirt with a sickle and hammer, then this person may have big problems with Polish law.
The Poles immediately stated that it was better for Russian fans to refuse such a defile, which they received a fairly tough response from the Russian Foreign Ministry calling for not mixing sport and politics, that human rights must be respected, since Poland is a member of the European Union. Well, in fact, judge it - if, for example, a person other than a sickle-hammering T-shirt with the USSR inscription, left over from perestroika times, has nothing to wear ... What now is he to walk around naked in Warsaw? God, for the gay parade will take ...
As a result, the Polish side had to back down and declare that there would be no opposition to the Russian fans. In general, our compatriots of the Polish "democrats" were caught on their own hook - human rights, and everything like that. Apparently, now the Polish authorities think how to respond adequately to the Russians. One of the options may well be considered - to dress up Polish fans in coats of the time of False Dmitry I. Only here, again, the Russians have their own trump card - for each False Dmitry, there will be Minin and Pozharsky ...
Let's hope that the players of both teams themselves will appear 12 June at the Polish stadium in the usual form ...
Not stitched, old ones
Clothing themes continue in the following material. Not so long ago, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced information that it was ready to abandon felt boots. The main opponents of the fact that the Russian soldiers in the winter were on combat duty in boots, made the head of the military department Anatoly Serdyukov. Initially, it was reported that the minister simply decided to take a break in the procurement of felt boots, since, according to him, the army’s warehouses are overflowing with this product. But now it turned out that Anatoly Eduardovich in general decided to put a big and bold cross on this type of footwear. The fact is that, according to some experts, the persecution of felt boots began after someone decided that such shoes did not harmonize well with the new image of the Russian army.
But the trouble is that it seems that the Minister of Defense and his supporters, speaking of prohibiting such warm shoes, forget that the Yakut frost, for example, does not perfectly harmonize with the image of the Russian army. And if Anatoly Eduardovich himself was put in charge for combat duty, for example, at one of the Siberian polygons in January-February, he is unlikely to start thinking about the image and design developments. No, no one argues that the appearance of the same boots can be, as it is now customary to say, be upgraded somewhat, but this should be done not to the detriment of the health of servicemen. After all, it often happens that radical changes in terms of uniforms lead to the most serious consequences.
Regarding stocks of boots in the army warehouses, it is worth mentioning another very remarkable statement that came from the General Staff. The source said that the stock of this winter footwear will end either in 2013 or in the 2014 year, “depending on how they are being worn”. Particularly impressive is the last sentence. It turns out that military personnel may be obliged to trample all the boots by the next year, so that the "strategic" stock that the minister disapproves of has finally dried up. And people who had the honor of serving urgent service in the Russian army can guess that the order to “trample” by high-ranking officials will be understood directly and without confusion. Therefore, if we suddenly find out that now and in the summer the soldiers are practicing the drill on the parade ground in their boots, there is no surprise: the order “to destroy the boots in the shortest possible time” is carried out in the normal mode ...
Part II. Exchange of courtesies
Military Band for Syrian Opposition
Worth Angela Merkel unsuccessfully to speak in front of a teacher and students in school at a geography lessonwhere she found Berlin in Russia on the outline map, like Vladimir Putin, remembering Guten Tag, Vielen Dank, and maybe Drang nach Osten, immediately flew to Germany for an informal meeting. After all, as the Germans say: Wer zu spät kommt, den bestraft das Leben. That is: who is late, that punishes life.
At lunch, Mr. President, dressed in a tragic black suit (probably as a sign of farewell to the Komi Republic, which Merkel had earlier labeled a pointer as German territory) and Frau Chancellor, who wore the coat of the Soviet flag color (probably recalling the glorious socialist past, GDR, friendship of the peoples and the Russian language competition, where she won), talked without protocol.
However, after lunch, a press conference was held, at which both Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin gave all their secrets to the press. As it turned out, relations between Russia and Germany are so strong that Frau Merkel had every right to write a wide pointer at the map, defying borders, visas and striped barriers.
“Let's live together” is not a topic that Vladimir Putin, like the animated Cat Leopold, could offer the German chancellor.
If Mr. Mitt Romney - a militant overseas guy who is going to become the president of America this year - has declared Russia the number one geopolitical enemy for his country, then Angela Merkel, without any doubt, considers Russia to be his first friend. And our president agrees with her: for it was Germany that became the first Western power that he visited on a visit.
Both the German chancellor and our president are politicians with experience, and both know how to be friends for the two countries correctly not only in words but also in deeds.
Angela Merkel said about the “cross years” that will be held in 2012-2013 (Year of Russia in Germany and Year of Germany in Russia). Germany, according to the Federal Chancellor, will hold over a thousand events in Russia in more than 50 cities in Russia. A large exhibition “Russians and Germans: 1000 Years of History, Culture, Art” is planned among the events. Trade exchange between Russia and Germany, said Angela Merkel, in 2011 year increased by 2010 percent compared to 29 year. And Germany intends to support Russia in the modernization of industry.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin addedthat in 2011, trade between the Russian Federation and Germany reached a record high of almost 72 billions of dollars. Russia will take care of gas supply not only to Germany, but also to the whole of Europe, by connecting the Nord Stream to it.
And Putin and Merkel agreed that Russia and Germany would not be friends against Syria. The importance of a political decision and the inadmissibility of a civil war in Syria - this is what both countries are guided by.
Full Russian-German unanimity somewhat overshadowed meetingpassing a hundred meters from the Reichstag: the enemies of Bashar al-Assad gathered on it, shouting out some kind of freedom-loving slogans. Probably, the protesters did not like the fact that Russia and Germany did not plan to overthrow Assad and organize military intervention in Syria. But the rally participants were unlucky: a few minutes later their voices were drowned out by a military band playing the anthems of two friendly states.
Double-edged sword
The United States continues to believe that Russia, like the USSR, is a country with flagrant violations of human rights. And the logic from which such an opinion dances is, well, purely American. The fact is that the main Russian violators of human rights for some reason love to visit America. It is this conclusion that can be drawn from the so-called “Magnitsky Act”, a project that many in Washington really want to make a law.
Judge for yourself: why would anyone else prohibit the infringement of democratic freedoms of Russian origin from issuing a US visa? It is not clear that the suppressors of freedoms from totalitarian Russia have forgotten in democratic America. Would drive yourself to Venezuela or there in China. And best of all - to North Korea. So it remains a mystery, what attracts the US to Russian oppressors, fiends, KGB agents and executioners of all stripes and shades.
No, the list of bloodthirsty Russians, who will not appear on American democratic streets under any pretext, is not yet fully prepared. Michael McFaul, the ambassador of America in Russia, has no experience in compiling such blacklists, and therefore the work is delayed. Especially since Mr. McFaul, who has worked day and night on the list of objectionable persons, recently decided that personassociated with the deceased Magnitsky will not be enough - well, yes, we are talking about a whole law that has geopolitical power - and in the list started by the initiative senator Cardin there should be fifty or sixty bad people who take part in the final and irrevocable suffocation disenfranchised Russian citizens. It can be assumed that Mr. McFaul has been working on the list for so long that he finds out at the same time whether this particular citizen-righteous person really likes to visit the United States. They will again laugh at the US ambassador to Russia if he makes a mistake or writes and says something is not right. That will be fun when it turns out: McFaul will forbid any opponent of civil rights and freedoms from entering the United States, and the enemy will not enter there. He and his country is good. Moreover, in the Russian homeland, he will immediately be declared a real patriot and even a victim of American oppression - and in the end he will have a chance to rise in politics and make a brilliant career. And having made a career, he once and for all suffocates all remnants of rights in Russia, even using textbooks from them. Are McFaul and Cardin fighting for this?
I’m not sure that I’ve just followed the flight of Mr. McFaul’s thoughts, but it seems that not only the American ambassador, but also those Misters who are in the Senate, now in the State Department, are talking about introducing the anti-Russian law instead of the dying anti-Soviet Jackson. Magnitsky (on the principle: if only something against Russia), you need to think about the same thing that the most important Mr. in America, Obama, is now intensely thinking about. And he just opposes the Magnitsky act - and does not intend to sign it. The president of America even considers him provocative. But now the famous senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman, famous for their intransigence in the Syrian issue, think that Obama is wrong.
But the US president is right: nothing but a new round of the Cold War, the adoption of this act does not promise. Would the US lawmakers and ambassadors (advocating for a reset) be better thought about, and why are those freedom fighters, so many in Russia, that the list is growing and replenishing, pulls into your America?
Yes, I almost forgot. Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov recently said at the briefing: “If a new anti-Russian“ Magnitsky law ”is adopted, then this law will require some kind of our response.”
The response is predictable. Just as the Russian Foreign Ministry has for some time responded with its statements to the reports of the US State Department on the observance of human rights in the world, the presidential administration can respond to Magnitsky’s list with its black list. And the first persona non grata in Russia is likely to be Mr. Michael McFaul. Sewing on him subversive activities for the benefit of overseas bosses will not be difficult for Russian prosecutors.
Although ... it will be very sorry. "Spicy Ambassador" is very convenient for the press. Journalists are accustomed to the innocent of this Mr., who has exactly the same thing on his tongue.
To Breivik was not boring
In press writethat the Norwegian authorities announced their decision to hire temporary friends for the terrorist Breivik, I mean cellmates. Norway is a developed and not poor country. Although there sometimes fighting over a portion of gratuitous shawarma and a glass of compote and strike because wages went up by 4 percent, not 8, on the cellmates, the Norwegians have enough money for the killer.
Probably, the country's authorities are confident that they will plant Breivik, and for a long time. Therefore, it is supposed to hire friends and comrades for him and imprison them in the same camera as him - to hire them for money, of course, for who will climb into the camera to Breivik for free. These people will entertain the unfortunate killer with conversations, play chess with him, and even floorball (the latter will probably happen outside the camera, or Breivik will have to allocate a camera with an area from the gym).
In the Norwegian government they are afraid that they cannot imprison the usual Breivik cellmates, because he will convert them to his terrorist faith in a swoop. And if he doesn't, he will take him hostage.
Norwegians would have set Breivik alone, but, unfortunately, the soft laws of this democratic country do not allow the prisoner to be kept in solitary confinement for a long time.
I have a suspicion that Breivik will not play chess with paid cellmates. And not in floorball. His favorite game is World of Warcraft. He devoted one year of his life to the fact that he only played WoW, ate and slept. And then he invented his attacks.
Polish version of World War II by Barack Obama
May 29 Barack Obama awarded the presidential medal of liberty twelve people, including Jan Karsky (posthumously). A member of the Polish resistance, Karski, purposely entered the Nazi concentration camp to find out how the Nazis treat prisoners and then tell Franklin Roosevelt about this. This man’s courage is undoubtedly worthy of the highest reward.
But the trouble is: speaking at the ceremony, Obama called the concentration camp not fascist, but “Polish.” Scandal broke out; the Poles did not approve of the version of the history of the Second World War, proposed not by Obama, not by some nameless copywriter, during the time of crisis for America, working on presidential speeches.
Serious Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski did not choose expressions and directly сказалthat the award ceremony "was clouded by ignorance and incompetence."
Then Obama, probably, looked into the history books and found out that the Poles in the concentration camps were not satisfied (although who knows what they are writing in these American textbooks), and more and more Germans were doing this vile affair. Obama checked the textbook and wrote a letter to the President of Poland, Komorowski, where noticedthat "the Polish death camps simply did not exist." This is instead of an apology.
It is not the first time that the President of America makes a reservation on a historical subject. Well, not his is the subject - the story, and that's it. And about the concentration camps, Obama was mistaken even twice.
Still being a presidential candidate, Mr. Obama рассказал voters that his uncle liberated Auschwitz. It immediately turned out that his uncle was somewhere else, and Obama's great-uncle had fought against the Nazis - who freed, however, not Auschwitz, but Buchenwald.
Obama, who believes that in the US 57 states, not 50 (God knows what lands he assigned to the USA - maybe Mexico, or maybe Quebec) - is a worthy successor of the case of Bill Clinton, who confused Macedonia with Montenegro and, of course, Bush - the younger one, who could not find Iraq on the world map, with which America fought. Bush believed that Iraq, like Afghanistan, is in Africa. What to say about such geographical inaccuracies of Bush Junior, as the confusion of Slovenia with Slovakia, Austria with Australia and APEC with OPEC.
But back to Barack Obama. We must pay tribute to this man counting and declaring to Congress that the car was invented in the United States. (G. Ford, apparently). Let's be fair: not only Obama was mistaken and made a reservation, “he was also“ negotiated ”.
In April of the year 2008, when Mr. Obama was listed as a potential candidate for the presidency, at the annual meeting of journalists one of the leaders of the Associated Press agency, Dean Singleton, was not confused call “Obama” is not anyone, but terrorist Osama bin Laden. Obama managed to make a joke out of the reservation and said with a laugh that he himself was surprised at how often he was confused with bin Laden, and that it’s generally strange how he, Obama, continues to fight for the presidency.
If one of the leaders of a major news agency does not distinguish Osama from Obama, then what about ordinary voters! Therefore, the big question is who the Americans voted for at the 2008 election of the year: for Barack Obama or Osama bin Laden.
In contact with Mavrodi
During the week, a couple of people, let's say, with a more than active citizenship, once again decided to show that even from any intellectual with glasses you can make the hero of some shameful reality show with guest “clappers” and “hooters”. The first comrade is Pavel Durov, who, along with his deputies for managing the social network Vkontakte, launched airplanes from the window of his St. Petersburg office with five thousand-dollar bills invested in them. The second comrade is the ever-memorable Sergey Mavrodi, who announced that the Russian state had provoked a panic on his new project MMM-2011, and now he (Mavrodi), they say, is forced (not of his own will, of course) to suspend payments to his depositors.
Both of these news shook the Russian segment of the Internet, although, by and large, such a wave - for our country is not news. Take, for example, the same Pavel Durov. Well, if a person is tired of using 5,000-dollar bills only in a corporate toilet, where no one can assess this, then why not arrange your hot-hot flashmob to just once again demonstrate how much better things are going for him than those who walk his feet on the St. Petersburg pavement. And the white-toothed smile of Durov, which flashed through the open window, when he “shared” with the people what he had earned by honest and overworking, and the people for that acquired broke each other's faces in the blood, it was clear that Mr. Durov decided to give us with you and bread and circuses. Well, just, damn it, the Roman Emperor Durov First some ...
And with Sergei Mavrodi perhaps story not repeated? Those citizens of Lyoni Golubkovy who trust their “demigod”, who want to “buy shoes for their wife” and receive at 400% per annum. The same non-judicial Sergey Panteleevich, who in his life managed to set up so many pyramids that some Cheops "nervously smokes" in his Egypt. Now here is the MMM-2012 to save the MMM-2011. It is not difficult to guess what will happen if this pyramidal “structure” begins to crumble. MMM-2013 will appear, then - 2014 Sochi Olympiad MMM and the chain will not end until the genes of the Leni Golubkov genus and admirers of Pavel Durov's “bill notes” roam Russia.
Timely treatment for excessive travel cravings
Last week, the site "Military Review" was told about the misadventures of Russian bikers in Iraq. Now the relatives of the “travelers” and the adventurers themselves can breathe easy, because the guys have returned home after several days spent in one of the most democratic dungeons of the world - the Iraqi prison. Recall that four Russians who wanted to “wash the wheels of motorcycles in the Persian Gulf” were detained on charges of illegally crossing the Iraqi border (according to the Iraqi side, bikers had fake Iraqi visas).
After the Russians returned home, one of them, Alexander Vardanyants, said that he did not quite understand why they decided to make heroes on the Internet. According to him, the bikers who turned out to be the main characters in this story are quoted, “not heroes, but idiots.”
And indeed, to argue with Alexander is difficult here, because Iraq is still not the Black Sea coast, where you can scream with the engines of your motorcycles, scaring sunbathers on the beaches. Apparently, the guys inspired such a journey with the well-known phrase that everything is calm in Baghdad. It turned out that the calm in the Iraqi capital is not exactly what the Russian adventurers expected from the back wheels of their motorcycles expected from it. Calmness, it’s like this: calmly detained, motorcycles are taken quietly, they are also beaten calmly ... But if it were not for the intervention of the Russian side, then our bikers could calmly and impose a penalty for espionage - in the form of the death penalty.
Now the guys plans for the future have changed somewhat. If a couple of weeks ago, they were eager to rush around Iraq, look later in Afghanistan, now, smearing the bruises from the calm blows of Iraqi law enforcement officers with green paint, bikers are increasingly thinking about calm motorcycle rides on Mother Russia among native birch trees.
Dont Lazari Now
Twelve years "Strogach" received a reserve colonel Vladimir Lazar, who was engaged in espionage activities in favor of the United States of America. A retired colonel (now a former retired colonel) is accused of transmitting raster topographic maps with secret military objects on them to representatives of American intelligence.
The work of the FSB in Mr. Lazar began after one of his colleagues in transmitting information over the hill “passed” him (it was in 2008 year). The programmer Gennady Sipachev, who had a rather strange hobby - collecting various kinds of geographical and topographic maps, including maps of military content, became the man who spoke about the activities of the colonel. He sold out many of these cards to interested parties, including Vladimir Lazar. "Collector", feeling the firm and friendly grip of the Russian special services, decided not to hold out for a long time and pointed to his buyer, for which he was "awarded" with a four-year term of strict regime. Now the whole four years, the Russians will not be able to use the software, which gave birth to the light programmer Sipachev, but for these four years he himself can get acquainted with a completely different "software", written in "blatant hair dryer." In connection with the increasing incidence of the sale of Russian state secrets, the system for the execution of punishments should already build a separate box for such as Sipachev, Lazar, Gniteyev and others like them. The walls and bunks of the cozy chambers of this box can be decorated with star-striped flags so that the guys do not forget about their “second homeland” ...
So collect after this ... After Sipachev's freedom, the craving for gathering will obviously diminish. By the way, those who also consider themselves a collector should give advice: right now, review all your brands, beer labels and, especially, herbariums, because quite unexpectedly it may turn out that American intelligence is already interested in them.
Like a sickle on the Poles ...
12 June on Russia Day in Warsaw will be a match between the football teams of Poland and Russia. This meeting attracts special attention now. Only now, for the most part, conversations are not about the preparation of teams and their capabilities, but about what will happen near the stadium. Russian football fans said they were going to arrange a small procession with Soviet flags in their hands and in red t-shirts and USSR inscriptions to support their favorite team.
Polish politicians got such news that reached Warsaw from Russia, if not a shock, then a state of knockdown. The fact is that during the recent time the Polish authorities have prohibited the use of Soviet symbols on the territory of their country. If suddenly the police on the streets of any Polish city see a person in a T-shirt with a sickle and hammer, then this person may have big problems with Polish law.
The Poles immediately stated that it was better for Russian fans to refuse such a defile, which they received a fairly tough response from the Russian Foreign Ministry calling for not mixing sport and politics, that human rights must be respected, since Poland is a member of the European Union. Well, in fact, judge it - if, for example, a person other than a sickle-hammering T-shirt with the USSR inscription, left over from perestroika times, has nothing to wear ... What now is he to walk around naked in Warsaw? God, for the gay parade will take ...
As a result, the Polish side had to back down and declare that there would be no opposition to the Russian fans. In general, our compatriots of the Polish "democrats" were caught on their own hook - human rights, and everything like that. Apparently, now the Polish authorities think how to respond adequately to the Russians. One of the options may well be considered - to dress up Polish fans in coats of the time of False Dmitry I. Only here, again, the Russians have their own trump card - for each False Dmitry, there will be Minin and Pozharsky ...
Let's hope that the players of both teams themselves will appear 12 June at the Polish stadium in the usual form ...
Not stitched, old ones
Clothing themes continue in the following material. Not so long ago, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced information that it was ready to abandon felt boots. The main opponents of the fact that the Russian soldiers in the winter were on combat duty in boots, made the head of the military department Anatoly Serdyukov. Initially, it was reported that the minister simply decided to take a break in the procurement of felt boots, since, according to him, the army’s warehouses are overflowing with this product. But now it turned out that Anatoly Eduardovich in general decided to put a big and bold cross on this type of footwear. The fact is that, according to some experts, the persecution of felt boots began after someone decided that such shoes did not harmonize well with the new image of the Russian army.
Valenoks are warm felted boots made of felted wool, white, black or gray, traditional winter shoes of the Soviet and modern Russian army of 21 of the 20th century. In any frost the legs, shod with felt boots, feel comfort, dryness and warmth. Valenoks never "sit down" and do not deform the foot. Feet in felt boots do not sweat, as wool fibers provide natural air circulation. Natural sheep wool remarkably absorbs and evaporates moisture, while remaining dry itself. The healing effect of felted shoes, which warms up joints well, is also widely known. Boots do not slip. According to unreliable data, but deserving special attention, with long-term wearing of rams wool boots, sexual potency accumulates tirelessly. Due to the depreciation properties of the felt in them it is convenient to move over rough terrain with vegetation. The disadvantages include their narrow weather limitations - they can be worn only in dry weather, wet they easily get wet and dry for a long time. They are inconvenient to run.
But the trouble is that it seems that the Minister of Defense and his supporters, speaking of prohibiting such warm shoes, forget that the Yakut frost, for example, does not perfectly harmonize with the image of the Russian army. And if Anatoly Eduardovich himself was put in charge for combat duty, for example, at one of the Siberian polygons in January-February, he is unlikely to start thinking about the image and design developments. No, no one argues that the appearance of the same boots can be, as it is now customary to say, be upgraded somewhat, but this should be done not to the detriment of the health of servicemen. After all, it often happens that radical changes in terms of uniforms lead to the most serious consequences.
Regarding stocks of boots in the army warehouses, it is worth mentioning another very remarkable statement that came from the General Staff. The source said that the stock of this winter footwear will end either in 2013 or in the 2014 year, “depending on how they are being worn”. Particularly impressive is the last sentence. It turns out that military personnel may be obliged to trample all the boots by the next year, so that the "strategic" stock that the minister disapproves of has finally dried up. And people who had the honor of serving urgent service in the Russian army can guess that the order to “trample” by high-ranking officials will be understood directly and without confusion. Therefore, if we suddenly find out that now and in the summer the soldiers are practicing the drill on the parade ground in their boots, there is no surprise: the order “to destroy the boots in the shortest possible time” is carried out in the normal mode ...
Part II. Exchange of courtesies
Military Band for Syrian Opposition
Worth Angela Merkel unsuccessfully to speak in front of a teacher and students in school at a geography lessonwhere she found Berlin in Russia on the outline map, like Vladimir Putin, remembering Guten Tag, Vielen Dank, and maybe Drang nach Osten, immediately flew to Germany for an informal meeting. After all, as the Germans say: Wer zu spät kommt, den bestraft das Leben. That is: who is late, that punishes life.
At lunch, Mr. President, dressed in a tragic black suit (probably as a sign of farewell to the Komi Republic, which Merkel had earlier labeled a pointer as German territory) and Frau Chancellor, who wore the coat of the Soviet flag color (probably recalling the glorious socialist past, GDR, friendship of the peoples and the Russian language competition, where she won), talked without protocol.
However, after lunch, a press conference was held, at which both Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin gave all their secrets to the press. As it turned out, relations between Russia and Germany are so strong that Frau Merkel had every right to write a wide pointer at the map, defying borders, visas and striped barriers.
“Let's live together” is not a topic that Vladimir Putin, like the animated Cat Leopold, could offer the German chancellor.
If Mr. Mitt Romney - a militant overseas guy who is going to become the president of America this year - has declared Russia the number one geopolitical enemy for his country, then Angela Merkel, without any doubt, considers Russia to be his first friend. And our president agrees with her: for it was Germany that became the first Western power that he visited on a visit.
Both the German chancellor and our president are politicians with experience, and both know how to be friends for the two countries correctly not only in words but also in deeds.
Angela Merkel said about the “cross years” that will be held in 2012-2013 (Year of Russia in Germany and Year of Germany in Russia). Germany, according to the Federal Chancellor, will hold over a thousand events in Russia in more than 50 cities in Russia. A large exhibition “Russians and Germans: 1000 Years of History, Culture, Art” is planned among the events. Trade exchange between Russia and Germany, said Angela Merkel, in 2011 year increased by 2010 percent compared to 29 year. And Germany intends to support Russia in the modernization of industry.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin addedthat in 2011, trade between the Russian Federation and Germany reached a record high of almost 72 billions of dollars. Russia will take care of gas supply not only to Germany, but also to the whole of Europe, by connecting the Nord Stream to it.
And Putin and Merkel agreed that Russia and Germany would not be friends against Syria. The importance of a political decision and the inadmissibility of a civil war in Syria - this is what both countries are guided by.
Full Russian-German unanimity somewhat overshadowed meetingpassing a hundred meters from the Reichstag: the enemies of Bashar al-Assad gathered on it, shouting out some kind of freedom-loving slogans. Probably, the protesters did not like the fact that Russia and Germany did not plan to overthrow Assad and organize military intervention in Syria. But the rally participants were unlucky: a few minutes later their voices were drowned out by a military band playing the anthems of two friendly states.
Double-edged sword
The United States continues to believe that Russia, like the USSR, is a country with flagrant violations of human rights. And the logic from which such an opinion dances is, well, purely American. The fact is that the main Russian violators of human rights for some reason love to visit America. It is this conclusion that can be drawn from the so-called “Magnitsky Act”, a project that many in Washington really want to make a law.
Judge for yourself: why would anyone else prohibit the infringement of democratic freedoms of Russian origin from issuing a US visa? It is not clear that the suppressors of freedoms from totalitarian Russia have forgotten in democratic America. Would drive yourself to Venezuela or there in China. And best of all - to North Korea. So it remains a mystery, what attracts the US to Russian oppressors, fiends, KGB agents and executioners of all stripes and shades.
No, the list of bloodthirsty Russians, who will not appear on American democratic streets under any pretext, is not yet fully prepared. Michael McFaul, the ambassador of America in Russia, has no experience in compiling such blacklists, and therefore the work is delayed. Especially since Mr. McFaul, who has worked day and night on the list of objectionable persons, recently decided that personassociated with the deceased Magnitsky will not be enough - well, yes, we are talking about a whole law that has geopolitical power - and in the list started by the initiative senator Cardin there should be fifty or sixty bad people who take part in the final and irrevocable suffocation disenfranchised Russian citizens. It can be assumed that Mr. McFaul has been working on the list for so long that he finds out at the same time whether this particular citizen-righteous person really likes to visit the United States. They will again laugh at the US ambassador to Russia if he makes a mistake or writes and says something is not right. That will be fun when it turns out: McFaul will forbid any opponent of civil rights and freedoms from entering the United States, and the enemy will not enter there. He and his country is good. Moreover, in the Russian homeland, he will immediately be declared a real patriot and even a victim of American oppression - and in the end he will have a chance to rise in politics and make a brilliant career. And having made a career, he once and for all suffocates all remnants of rights in Russia, even using textbooks from them. Are McFaul and Cardin fighting for this?
I’m not sure that I’ve just followed the flight of Mr. McFaul’s thoughts, but it seems that not only the American ambassador, but also those Misters who are in the Senate, now in the State Department, are talking about introducing the anti-Russian law instead of the dying anti-Soviet Jackson. Magnitsky (on the principle: if only something against Russia), you need to think about the same thing that the most important Mr. in America, Obama, is now intensely thinking about. And he just opposes the Magnitsky act - and does not intend to sign it. The president of America even considers him provocative. But now the famous senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman, famous for their intransigence in the Syrian issue, think that Obama is wrong.
But the US president is right: nothing but a new round of the Cold War, the adoption of this act does not promise. Would the US lawmakers and ambassadors (advocating for a reset) be better thought about, and why are those freedom fighters, so many in Russia, that the list is growing and replenishing, pulls into your America?
Yes, I almost forgot. Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov recently said at the briefing: “If a new anti-Russian“ Magnitsky law ”is adopted, then this law will require some kind of our response.”
The response is predictable. Just as the Russian Foreign Ministry has for some time responded with its statements to the reports of the US State Department on the observance of human rights in the world, the presidential administration can respond to Magnitsky’s list with its black list. And the first persona non grata in Russia is likely to be Mr. Michael McFaul. Sewing on him subversive activities for the benefit of overseas bosses will not be difficult for Russian prosecutors.
Although ... it will be very sorry. "Spicy Ambassador" is very convenient for the press. Journalists are accustomed to the innocent of this Mr., who has exactly the same thing on his tongue.
To Breivik was not boring
In press writethat the Norwegian authorities announced their decision to hire temporary friends for the terrorist Breivik, I mean cellmates. Norway is a developed and not poor country. Although there sometimes fighting over a portion of gratuitous shawarma and a glass of compote and strike because wages went up by 4 percent, not 8, on the cellmates, the Norwegians have enough money for the killer.
Probably, the country's authorities are confident that they will plant Breivik, and for a long time. Therefore, it is supposed to hire friends and comrades for him and imprison them in the same camera as him - to hire them for money, of course, for who will climb into the camera to Breivik for free. These people will entertain the unfortunate killer with conversations, play chess with him, and even floorball (the latter will probably happen outside the camera, or Breivik will have to allocate a camera with an area from the gym).
In the Norwegian government they are afraid that they cannot imprison the usual Breivik cellmates, because he will convert them to his terrorist faith in a swoop. And if he doesn't, he will take him hostage.
Norwegians would have set Breivik alone, but, unfortunately, the soft laws of this democratic country do not allow the prisoner to be kept in solitary confinement for a long time.
I have a suspicion that Breivik will not play chess with paid cellmates. And not in floorball. His favorite game is World of Warcraft. He devoted one year of his life to the fact that he only played WoW, ate and slept. And then he invented his attacks.
Polish version of World War II by Barack Obama
May 29 Barack Obama awarded the presidential medal of liberty twelve people, including Jan Karsky (posthumously). A member of the Polish resistance, Karski, purposely entered the Nazi concentration camp to find out how the Nazis treat prisoners and then tell Franklin Roosevelt about this. This man’s courage is undoubtedly worthy of the highest reward.
But the trouble is: speaking at the ceremony, Obama called the concentration camp not fascist, but “Polish.” Scandal broke out; the Poles did not approve of the version of the history of the Second World War, proposed not by Obama, not by some nameless copywriter, during the time of crisis for America, working on presidential speeches.
Serious Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski did not choose expressions and directly сказалthat the award ceremony "was clouded by ignorance and incompetence."
Then Obama, probably, looked into the history books and found out that the Poles in the concentration camps were not satisfied (although who knows what they are writing in these American textbooks), and more and more Germans were doing this vile affair. Obama checked the textbook and wrote a letter to the President of Poland, Komorowski, where noticedthat "the Polish death camps simply did not exist." This is instead of an apology.
It is not the first time that the President of America makes a reservation on a historical subject. Well, not his is the subject - the story, and that's it. And about the concentration camps, Obama was mistaken even twice.
Still being a presidential candidate, Mr. Obama рассказал voters that his uncle liberated Auschwitz. It immediately turned out that his uncle was somewhere else, and Obama's great-uncle had fought against the Nazis - who freed, however, not Auschwitz, but Buchenwald.
Obama, who believes that in the US 57 states, not 50 (God knows what lands he assigned to the USA - maybe Mexico, or maybe Quebec) - is a worthy successor of the case of Bill Clinton, who confused Macedonia with Montenegro and, of course, Bush - the younger one, who could not find Iraq on the world map, with which America fought. Bush believed that Iraq, like Afghanistan, is in Africa. What to say about such geographical inaccuracies of Bush Junior, as the confusion of Slovenia with Slovakia, Austria with Australia and APEC with OPEC.
But back to Barack Obama. We must pay tribute to this man counting and declaring to Congress that the car was invented in the United States. (G. Ford, apparently). Let's be fair: not only Obama was mistaken and made a reservation, “he was also“ negotiated ”.
In April of the year 2008, when Mr. Obama was listed as a potential candidate for the presidency, at the annual meeting of journalists one of the leaders of the Associated Press agency, Dean Singleton, was not confused call “Obama” is not anyone, but terrorist Osama bin Laden. Obama managed to make a joke out of the reservation and said with a laugh that he himself was surprised at how often he was confused with bin Laden, and that it’s generally strange how he, Obama, continues to fight for the presidency.
If one of the leaders of a major news agency does not distinguish Osama from Obama, then what about ordinary voters! Therefore, the big question is who the Americans voted for at the 2008 election of the year: for Barack Obama or Osama bin Laden.
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