Results of the week. Or maybe you give another key to the apartment, where the money is?
Part I. “Why is the war going on? Do they not read newspapers? ”
Seven feet under the bunk
Once again, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation managed to distinguish itself during public procurements for the needs of military personnel. This time it’s not even about halberds with clubs in the literal sense of the word, but only furniture for fleet. It would seem, well, what could be done here so that the sailors would also be left without something to relax on. It turned out that it is possible. To do this, it was enough just to get down to business with Anatoly Eduardovich Serdyukov - and the furniture from its utilitarian means turned into a subject for discussion and numerous inconsistencies.
The fact is that, as Minister of Defense in the government of Vladimir Putin, Mr. Serdyukov signed a contract paper with the British company Strongbox Marine Furniture, which supplied steel furniture for Her Majesty’s fleet. It seems to be that all rank by rank is a serious company, the words “Her Majesty” added more solidity to her. Contracts, in general, concluded, prepared to even break a festive bottle of champagne on the first metal object of British furniture, but it was not there. Furniture for the Russian fleet stubbornly did not go. It had to go, because it was “laid out”, but, you know, it still did not go. Maybe the British let it under their own power, the fact remains unclear, but in the Russian ports they didn’t wait for how many “beds” with bread and salt.
Moreover, the very office of "Horns and Co ...", that is, Strongbox Marine Furniture was declared bankrupt after a very short time. And with a bankrupt, as you know, bribes are smooth. They began to think: this is just such a tragic coincidence of circumstances, or any case related to public procurement, to which the calloused hand of our Ministry of Defense is being applied, orders us to live a long time.
Thought-thought, but for now thought, the business of the bankrupt "hospital-bed" company decided to buy out a company with a suspiciously similar name - Strongbox Accommodation Furniture Limited. And also, it seems there is nothing reprehensible - it is necessary for someone to assemble furniture for the Russian sailors in Britain. But here, too, everything went along a slippery slope.
It turned out that the new Strongbox is headed by a person who is not at all with a British surname - Ivanov. This Ivanov turned out to be Eduard Ivanov, who also "earns part-time work" in the company "Marine Complex Systems".
After that, they began to think in a somewhat different direction: they say, and why all of a sudden the assets of the British company, which concluded a multimillion contract with the Russian Defense Ministry, are bought by a certain Ivanov. Well, it would be ok if Johnson or Parker had some, and here Ivanov, who still, apparently, doesn’t care with fantasy: Strongbox Accommodation Furniture Limited instead of Strongbox Marine Furniture.
In general, everything did not work out the way they wanted ... Anatoly Eduardovich, of course, wanted to improve the conditions for the combat service of Russian sailors exclusively with the help of British furniture, but after all, these British were rotten: they didn’t allow our minister to make the dream a reality. But now, thanks to countryman Ivanov, things will obviously go. Yes! - even if it is double or triple in price, but is it possible to blame the Ministry for wanting to reach European levels of comfort on Russian warships, despite the prices.
Point one: you can not blame! Point two: but who reproached, that - quick-rr-ro memorize the first paragraph! - They will come and check!
From their bounty
And now the question, what is called, backfilling. Try to guess how you can “ease” the treasury of the Russian Ministry of Defense annually for about half a billion dollars (about 15 billion rubles), so that such spending fully matches the Russian legislation and, moreover, just goes into the sand. Agree, to find an adequate answer to this question is not easy. However, such seemingly impracticable and absolutely senseless tasks as our defense ministry turned out to solve all these years with surprising ease. It turns out that exactly 15 billions of dollars each year go to pay for those servicemen who have already been taken out of staff but have not received their housing. More than fifty thousand Russian officers found themselves in precisely such a situation when, for various reasons, they were dismissed from their posts, taken out of staff, but they did not provide regulated square meters of living space.
50 of thousands of people to whom the Ministry of Defense, due to its slowness, actually pays money for nothing, is a kind of compensation so that they can wait for their turn to get housing. On the other hand, it looks more like what is called - here is the money for you, you just keep quiet in a rag ...
If we consider that a square meter of living space in new buildings in the central part of Russia costs about 32000 rubles, then it can easily be calculated that the same Ministry of Defense could buy about 15 square meters of quality housing for the 470000 billions sounded in a year. This is about 8000 apartments with a total area of 55-60 sq.m.
It turns out that in the present conditions it is more profitable for the Ministry of Defense to just throw money into the pipe, rather than actually solving housing issues. And indeed it is, paradoxically, but indeed it is. Why should an official keep in mind all this financial component, announce tenders for housing, why buy already built housing, let's say, by independent contractors, because you can simply withdraw a person for the staff and pay him the money allocated from the state budget. Less headache ...
If this trend continues, soon we can expect the appearance of a real army of “zashtatniki”, which the defense ministry itself is sponsoring. Russia may become the only state in the world where the number of officers retired from the state while maintaining salary will exceed the number of personnel officers. At this rate, the queue for housing made up of Russian military personnel will be able to cover all the borders of our Fatherland. Maybe this is exactly what is being achieved in Anatoly Serdyukov’s department? ..
Apparently, soon the Ministry of Defense may borrow the Baltic experience, where people living in the territory, for example, Latvia and not having a passport of a Latvian citizen, are called non-citizens. Only in the Russian defense variant will its own homegrown term be used - “non-military” or “non-officers” ... In general, the reform, as often happens, is far ahead of common sense ...
Hit in profile
Another one of ours, no less reformist ministry - the Ministry of Education distinguished itself. Officials from the Ministry of Education and Science completed a glorious deed, started by Andrei Fursenko - they introduced a new educational standard that will now regulate the life of the Russian school - now the profile one. People with leather portfolios decided that the school week should be exactly an hour more than the previous standards - this is a time, we need a third compulsory exam (foreign language) - these are two, and a very limited list of subjects required for studying in high school (mathematics, foreign language, Literature and Russian (one subject), physical education and life safety) - these are three. According to the innovations, in Russia after some time there may appear young people who have received a certificate indicating the completion of secondary school, but for the last two years they have not studied at all, for example, chemistry, biology, physics, and a number of other natural sciences. And there may be such graduates who two years of high school had no idea about geography, social studies and world artistic culture.
It is terrible to think about what profile to choose, for example, a young man who wants to enroll in a military college. I chose physics with chemistry, forget about social studies and, accordingly, on the contrary - chose humanitarian subjects - forget about Ohm's law. It would seem that the situation smells like another dead end. But no! The good heart of the new minister, however, sank, and he apparently could not remain indifferent to what is happening. It was decided that if a young man or girl wants to study both physics and, for example, literature and Russian separately, then you can simply pay for one of these subjects ... That's really grief from the mind: you want to be fully developed, as they say. Do not worry! - Pay and learn easy. And you do not want to pay, so you will not see the integration of two profiles.
But in the 11 class, each of the graduates will be completely free of charge to pass the exam in a foreign language. And this is especially true in small schools, where one seventy-five-year-old Marivanna is forced to combine the positions of a teacher of physical education, mathematics and the German language due to a shortage of personnel. Moreover, her knowledge of German is often at the level of knowledge of a person who was once forced to reside in the territory occupied by the Germans ... And here reform can only be carried out in one way - to dismiss this Marivanna and dissolve the school in which she finished her age. Reform, as you know, requires sacrifice ...
In connection with the adoption of the new educational standard, the Ministry of Education and Science should advise to introduce one more innovation: in order to optimize costs and adjust the work of teachers, it is necessary to combine lessons. For example, the first lesson: Russian-language mathematics. Here the eleventh grader solves trigonometric equations, but on the blackboard everything is written in words (tangent alpha plus tangent squared two alpha, etc.). Such a lesson will be led by two teachers at once - the ministry can save on wages. The second lesson is geo-physical culture and biology. Children jump over the goats, and in flight they work with contour maps ...
The year of 2012 - the reform of the Russian education - the flight is normal - all the steps have departed ...
"Dainties" Ksenia Sobchak
During the week, Ksenia Sobchak’s envelopes were the most discussed postal envelopes in the country. And they first attracted the attention of the Investigative Committee, and then the public, far from their colorful stamps, but the fact that they were stored in these envelopes. And this content has impressed many. The leading popular show on TV, Mrs. Sobchak, at home in a postal envelope “million” euros were “preserved” and, according to 480, thousand rubles and dollars, respectively. Such envelopes were removed by operatives after a search of Ksenia Anatolyevna’s apartment.
At the same time, the excitement around honest and overworked earned money is completely incomprehensible. Well, some tomatoes are preserved with cucumbers, others are marinated, but Ksenia Anatolyevna prepared several other stocks for the winter. And after all, no one would have used Mrs. Sobchak in the bins and wouldn’t have gotten; if she had led her House-2 for at least fifty years, Xenia herself apparently didn’t know how to get out of this long-running business. It simply did not work out - the frontal place was delayed back, and so the main “home” of the country decided to take a different path. I am supposedly a millionaire oppositionist - "Down with the power!" Give re-election! "(This is for the public), and -" Well, you get me out of this "House-2", I'll go for everything - even the "March of millions", at least for the Swamp (this is a whisper for the operatives).
And the operatives unanswered to the grief of Xenia Anatolyevna did not remain. You look, it will take another month or two, and the “House-2” will disappear from the screens of the country.
The truth here is, perhaps, even the stakes will have to be done “Who is Who?” - Mr. Bastrykin’s department or the country's most famous “House”. Riders of the Apocalypse, and those and others have enough ...
In the meantime, some horsemen prancing, others poured sweat and checking Xenia’s bills for authenticity and the presence of at least one of them of Michael McFaul's fingerprint ... They will find - just “2-House” can be left without Xenia, but they will not, and the SC risks to be without Mr. Bastrykin ... This is how it is - Russian roulette.
Part II. And again McFaul
McFaul will tell all. Give only time
US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul seems to be among those representatives of the human breed who do not learn from their mistakes.
Speaking recently at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, in the heat of the lecture he said about “bribes”. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation made him a suggestion, from which he, the poor fellow, departed for ten whole days, from May 28 to June 7. Having departed, the ambassador of the overseas power went to speak at the Russian economic school, where he apologized publicly for what he had said at the Higher School of Economics. Behavior, by the way, is logical: since I’ve been making rubbish of nonsense before economists, so apologize to economists. And nothing that in front of others and in another place. Students of financial specialties now know that a diplomatic synonym for a bad noun “bribe” is a long phrase “financial aid package”.
On Wednesday this week, the Ambassador of America came to speak at the Moscow School of Political Studies. After a successful apology, he relaxed, and also changed English to Russian.
And gave the next Washington secrets to grateful listeners. And they smashed them - in the Internet era - by their Twitter, Facebook and Live Journals.
First, Mr. McFaul сказал: "The State Department and America do not finance and do not give money to the opposition." And he stressed: “The opposition is your business, what you do is your business, not our business, and we understand this very well.”
Secondly, the US ambassador, who, we see, was bored with the questions of the annoying Russian public about where the queue for the grant could be taken, put the blame on the color revolutions being set up in the Moscow squares on the Bush administration: : I know that we do not do it here. This is our clear policy. Other administrations have been doing this. And it is true. Read your history, guys. You just have to learn the facts. ”
Thirdly, McFaul managed to prove a “clear policy” with a “clear” argument: “In America, a change of administration means a change in foreign policy. Condoleezza Rice, she is also a professor at Stanford University, could not be the author of the “reset”, because eight years before us she was engaged in a different foreign policy towards Russia. ”
It is a bit more complicated than a detective game of a bad cop and a good cop. The ambassador hinted that the Republicans are bad and the Democrats are good. Not all Russians can understand this, but Obama is likely to appreciate McFaul’s efforts. Maybe even give a medal. If only the next "bad" - Mitt Romney - Obama does not squeeze out from the Oval Office.
So Mr. Ambassador himself and his Washington boss Obama are good guys. In the current US administration, all are exceptionally good. And Hillary Clinton is also not Condoleezza Rice. Slightly obsessed with Syria and Russian attack helicopters, that's all. In general, everyone in the Obama administration loves Russia and wishes it a successful reboot. For what, ask, reboot? So it is in order to get rid of the bad "color" past, inspired by "other foreign policy", conducted in Russia by the specialists of Bush Jr.
True, to get rid of something does not work. And not only does it not work, but in recent years this “other policy”, it must be admitted, grows suspiciously stronger. Spit - and be sure to get into the grantee or a member of the "non-governmental organization". It seems that, in speaking of a reboot, America implies low-level formatting ...
Twitter and Facebook instead tanks and special forces
Over the past four years, American taxpayers, through the mediation of congressmen and the American administration, have spent 76 millions of dollars in support of freedom on the Internet.
June 14 US State Department Spokesman Victoria Nuland said at a press briefing to journalists: “We are implementing long-term programs that would help people in countries where Internet access is limited, find ways to connect to the network and understand that this is one of the fundamental freedoms. These programs also include Syria. ”
In 2012, Washington is planning to spend 25 million dollars on financing the relevant programs.
What is America financing? And is there really no freedom on the Internet without money? Has freedom really become something to be bought with money?
“Ways of going online” lead to those countries where the US sees a lack of democracy, freedom of speech, human rights and other American values. For example, in Egypt. A year and a half ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, giving an annual speech on Internet freedom, said: “Internet access is an inalienable human right. It should be free and open, people should decide for themselves what information to draw from there and what information to share. Freedom of assembly, expression, and freedom to use online networks I would collectively describe as freedom of communication. The United States supports and will promote this freedom everywhere, and also urge all countries to follow our example. ” Egypt would have lived under Mubarak, if not for the all-powerful American Internet. “As soon as access to the Internet was restored there,” Clinton said, “all of Egypt immediately went online. People coordinated actions via e-mail, social networks like Facebook and Twitter played an important role. ”
Said millions of dollars Americans spend on circumventing restrictions imposed on the Internet by some governments, for example, in Syria, Iran, Vietnam, China, launching channels in the languages of the peoples of those countries that they want to connect to the "freedom of speech." Even America is fighting in the defense of offended bloggers and various opposition activists oppressed by the authorities.
Elena Gladkova пишетthat “since Obama’s arrival at the White House,“ democracy ”and“ human rights ”in the Russian Federation have spent more than $ 200 million from the pocket of American taxpayers”.
Money, as they say, mastered. Send more!
Tanks, artillery, missiles, submarines and special forces - very expensive, and the victims can be. And the Internet - and cheap, and angry. And modern. In Egypt, everything turned out well, and now the State Department is doing things in Syria through Twitter and Facebook: insurgents with iPhones run around the battlefields, take off their atrocities and pass them off for the bloody cruelties of the Assad regime. And there, you see, the State Department will take seriously for Russia: Putin’s dictatorship will be dumped, and Navalny will be put in place of the dictator. Democratic way will elect. Or Udaltsova. And in the premiere of it will appoint Ksenia Sobchak. It is only necessary to organize more of the correct Internet!
Seven feet under the bunk
Once again, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation managed to distinguish itself during public procurements for the needs of military personnel. This time it’s not even about halberds with clubs in the literal sense of the word, but only furniture for fleet. It would seem, well, what could be done here so that the sailors would also be left without something to relax on. It turned out that it is possible. To do this, it was enough just to get down to business with Anatoly Eduardovich Serdyukov - and the furniture from its utilitarian means turned into a subject for discussion and numerous inconsistencies.
The fact is that, as Minister of Defense in the government of Vladimir Putin, Mr. Serdyukov signed a contract paper with the British company Strongbox Marine Furniture, which supplied steel furniture for Her Majesty’s fleet. It seems to be that all rank by rank is a serious company, the words “Her Majesty” added more solidity to her. Contracts, in general, concluded, prepared to even break a festive bottle of champagne on the first metal object of British furniture, but it was not there. Furniture for the Russian fleet stubbornly did not go. It had to go, because it was “laid out”, but, you know, it still did not go. Maybe the British let it under their own power, the fact remains unclear, but in the Russian ports they didn’t wait for how many “beds” with bread and salt.
Moreover, the very office of "Horns and Co ...", that is, Strongbox Marine Furniture was declared bankrupt after a very short time. And with a bankrupt, as you know, bribes are smooth. They began to think: this is just such a tragic coincidence of circumstances, or any case related to public procurement, to which the calloused hand of our Ministry of Defense is being applied, orders us to live a long time.
Thought-thought, but for now thought, the business of the bankrupt "hospital-bed" company decided to buy out a company with a suspiciously similar name - Strongbox Accommodation Furniture Limited. And also, it seems there is nothing reprehensible - it is necessary for someone to assemble furniture for the Russian sailors in Britain. But here, too, everything went along a slippery slope.
It turned out that the new Strongbox is headed by a person who is not at all with a British surname - Ivanov. This Ivanov turned out to be Eduard Ivanov, who also "earns part-time work" in the company "Marine Complex Systems".
After that, they began to think in a somewhat different direction: they say, and why all of a sudden the assets of the British company, which concluded a multimillion contract with the Russian Defense Ministry, are bought by a certain Ivanov. Well, it would be ok if Johnson or Parker had some, and here Ivanov, who still, apparently, doesn’t care with fantasy: Strongbox Accommodation Furniture Limited instead of Strongbox Marine Furniture.
In general, everything did not work out the way they wanted ... Anatoly Eduardovich, of course, wanted to improve the conditions for the combat service of Russian sailors exclusively with the help of British furniture, but after all, these British were rotten: they didn’t allow our minister to make the dream a reality. But now, thanks to countryman Ivanov, things will obviously go. Yes! - even if it is double or triple in price, but is it possible to blame the Ministry for wanting to reach European levels of comfort on Russian warships, despite the prices.
Point one: you can not blame! Point two: but who reproached, that - quick-rr-ro memorize the first paragraph! - They will come and check!
From their bounty
And now the question, what is called, backfilling. Try to guess how you can “ease” the treasury of the Russian Ministry of Defense annually for about half a billion dollars (about 15 billion rubles), so that such spending fully matches the Russian legislation and, moreover, just goes into the sand. Agree, to find an adequate answer to this question is not easy. However, such seemingly impracticable and absolutely senseless tasks as our defense ministry turned out to solve all these years with surprising ease. It turns out that exactly 15 billions of dollars each year go to pay for those servicemen who have already been taken out of staff but have not received their housing. More than fifty thousand Russian officers found themselves in precisely such a situation when, for various reasons, they were dismissed from their posts, taken out of staff, but they did not provide regulated square meters of living space.
50 of thousands of people to whom the Ministry of Defense, due to its slowness, actually pays money for nothing, is a kind of compensation so that they can wait for their turn to get housing. On the other hand, it looks more like what is called - here is the money for you, you just keep quiet in a rag ...
If we consider that a square meter of living space in new buildings in the central part of Russia costs about 32000 rubles, then it can easily be calculated that the same Ministry of Defense could buy about 15 square meters of quality housing for the 470000 billions sounded in a year. This is about 8000 apartments with a total area of 55-60 sq.m.
It turns out that in the present conditions it is more profitable for the Ministry of Defense to just throw money into the pipe, rather than actually solving housing issues. And indeed it is, paradoxically, but indeed it is. Why should an official keep in mind all this financial component, announce tenders for housing, why buy already built housing, let's say, by independent contractors, because you can simply withdraw a person for the staff and pay him the money allocated from the state budget. Less headache ...
If this trend continues, soon we can expect the appearance of a real army of “zashtatniki”, which the defense ministry itself is sponsoring. Russia may become the only state in the world where the number of officers retired from the state while maintaining salary will exceed the number of personnel officers. At this rate, the queue for housing made up of Russian military personnel will be able to cover all the borders of our Fatherland. Maybe this is exactly what is being achieved in Anatoly Serdyukov’s department? ..
Apparently, soon the Ministry of Defense may borrow the Baltic experience, where people living in the territory, for example, Latvia and not having a passport of a Latvian citizen, are called non-citizens. Only in the Russian defense variant will its own homegrown term be used - “non-military” or “non-officers” ... In general, the reform, as often happens, is far ahead of common sense ...
Hit in profile
Another one of ours, no less reformist ministry - the Ministry of Education distinguished itself. Officials from the Ministry of Education and Science completed a glorious deed, started by Andrei Fursenko - they introduced a new educational standard that will now regulate the life of the Russian school - now the profile one. People with leather portfolios decided that the school week should be exactly an hour more than the previous standards - this is a time, we need a third compulsory exam (foreign language) - these are two, and a very limited list of subjects required for studying in high school (mathematics, foreign language, Literature and Russian (one subject), physical education and life safety) - these are three. According to the innovations, in Russia after some time there may appear young people who have received a certificate indicating the completion of secondary school, but for the last two years they have not studied at all, for example, chemistry, biology, physics, and a number of other natural sciences. And there may be such graduates who two years of high school had no idea about geography, social studies and world artistic culture.
It is terrible to think about what profile to choose, for example, a young man who wants to enroll in a military college. I chose physics with chemistry, forget about social studies and, accordingly, on the contrary - chose humanitarian subjects - forget about Ohm's law. It would seem that the situation smells like another dead end. But no! The good heart of the new minister, however, sank, and he apparently could not remain indifferent to what is happening. It was decided that if a young man or girl wants to study both physics and, for example, literature and Russian separately, then you can simply pay for one of these subjects ... That's really grief from the mind: you want to be fully developed, as they say. Do not worry! - Pay and learn easy. And you do not want to pay, so you will not see the integration of two profiles.
But in the 11 class, each of the graduates will be completely free of charge to pass the exam in a foreign language. And this is especially true in small schools, where one seventy-five-year-old Marivanna is forced to combine the positions of a teacher of physical education, mathematics and the German language due to a shortage of personnel. Moreover, her knowledge of German is often at the level of knowledge of a person who was once forced to reside in the territory occupied by the Germans ... And here reform can only be carried out in one way - to dismiss this Marivanna and dissolve the school in which she finished her age. Reform, as you know, requires sacrifice ...
In connection with the adoption of the new educational standard, the Ministry of Education and Science should advise to introduce one more innovation: in order to optimize costs and adjust the work of teachers, it is necessary to combine lessons. For example, the first lesson: Russian-language mathematics. Here the eleventh grader solves trigonometric equations, but on the blackboard everything is written in words (tangent alpha plus tangent squared two alpha, etc.). Such a lesson will be led by two teachers at once - the ministry can save on wages. The second lesson is geo-physical culture and biology. Children jump over the goats, and in flight they work with contour maps ...
The year of 2012 - the reform of the Russian education - the flight is normal - all the steps have departed ...
"Dainties" Ksenia Sobchak
During the week, Ksenia Sobchak’s envelopes were the most discussed postal envelopes in the country. And they first attracted the attention of the Investigative Committee, and then the public, far from their colorful stamps, but the fact that they were stored in these envelopes. And this content has impressed many. The leading popular show on TV, Mrs. Sobchak, at home in a postal envelope “million” euros were “preserved” and, according to 480, thousand rubles and dollars, respectively. Such envelopes were removed by operatives after a search of Ksenia Anatolyevna’s apartment.
At the same time, the excitement around honest and overworked earned money is completely incomprehensible. Well, some tomatoes are preserved with cucumbers, others are marinated, but Ksenia Anatolyevna prepared several other stocks for the winter. And after all, no one would have used Mrs. Sobchak in the bins and wouldn’t have gotten; if she had led her House-2 for at least fifty years, Xenia herself apparently didn’t know how to get out of this long-running business. It simply did not work out - the frontal place was delayed back, and so the main “home” of the country decided to take a different path. I am supposedly a millionaire oppositionist - "Down with the power!" Give re-election! "(This is for the public), and -" Well, you get me out of this "House-2", I'll go for everything - even the "March of millions", at least for the Swamp (this is a whisper for the operatives).
And the operatives unanswered to the grief of Xenia Anatolyevna did not remain. You look, it will take another month or two, and the “House-2” will disappear from the screens of the country.
The truth here is, perhaps, even the stakes will have to be done “Who is Who?” - Mr. Bastrykin’s department or the country's most famous “House”. Riders of the Apocalypse, and those and others have enough ...
In the meantime, some horsemen prancing, others poured sweat and checking Xenia’s bills for authenticity and the presence of at least one of them of Michael McFaul's fingerprint ... They will find - just “2-House” can be left without Xenia, but they will not, and the SC risks to be without Mr. Bastrykin ... This is how it is - Russian roulette.
Part II. And again McFaul
McFaul will tell all. Give only time
US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul seems to be among those representatives of the human breed who do not learn from their mistakes.
Speaking recently at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, in the heat of the lecture he said about “bribes”. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation made him a suggestion, from which he, the poor fellow, departed for ten whole days, from May 28 to June 7. Having departed, the ambassador of the overseas power went to speak at the Russian economic school, where he apologized publicly for what he had said at the Higher School of Economics. Behavior, by the way, is logical: since I’ve been making rubbish of nonsense before economists, so apologize to economists. And nothing that in front of others and in another place. Students of financial specialties now know that a diplomatic synonym for a bad noun “bribe” is a long phrase “financial aid package”.
On Wednesday this week, the Ambassador of America came to speak at the Moscow School of Political Studies. After a successful apology, he relaxed, and also changed English to Russian.
And gave the next Washington secrets to grateful listeners. And they smashed them - in the Internet era - by their Twitter, Facebook and Live Journals.
First, Mr. McFaul сказал: "The State Department and America do not finance and do not give money to the opposition." And he stressed: “The opposition is your business, what you do is your business, not our business, and we understand this very well.”
Secondly, the US ambassador, who, we see, was bored with the questions of the annoying Russian public about where the queue for the grant could be taken, put the blame on the color revolutions being set up in the Moscow squares on the Bush administration: : I know that we do not do it here. This is our clear policy. Other administrations have been doing this. And it is true. Read your history, guys. You just have to learn the facts. ”
Thirdly, McFaul managed to prove a “clear policy” with a “clear” argument: “In America, a change of administration means a change in foreign policy. Condoleezza Rice, she is also a professor at Stanford University, could not be the author of the “reset”, because eight years before us she was engaged in a different foreign policy towards Russia. ”
It is a bit more complicated than a detective game of a bad cop and a good cop. The ambassador hinted that the Republicans are bad and the Democrats are good. Not all Russians can understand this, but Obama is likely to appreciate McFaul’s efforts. Maybe even give a medal. If only the next "bad" - Mitt Romney - Obama does not squeeze out from the Oval Office.
So Mr. Ambassador himself and his Washington boss Obama are good guys. In the current US administration, all are exceptionally good. And Hillary Clinton is also not Condoleezza Rice. Slightly obsessed with Syria and Russian attack helicopters, that's all. In general, everyone in the Obama administration loves Russia and wishes it a successful reboot. For what, ask, reboot? So it is in order to get rid of the bad "color" past, inspired by "other foreign policy", conducted in Russia by the specialists of Bush Jr.
True, to get rid of something does not work. And not only does it not work, but in recent years this “other policy”, it must be admitted, grows suspiciously stronger. Spit - and be sure to get into the grantee or a member of the "non-governmental organization". It seems that, in speaking of a reboot, America implies low-level formatting ...
Twitter and Facebook instead tanks and special forces
Over the past four years, American taxpayers, through the mediation of congressmen and the American administration, have spent 76 millions of dollars in support of freedom on the Internet.
June 14 US State Department Spokesman Victoria Nuland said at a press briefing to journalists: “We are implementing long-term programs that would help people in countries where Internet access is limited, find ways to connect to the network and understand that this is one of the fundamental freedoms. These programs also include Syria. ”
In 2012, Washington is planning to spend 25 million dollars on financing the relevant programs.
What is America financing? And is there really no freedom on the Internet without money? Has freedom really become something to be bought with money?
“Ways of going online” lead to those countries where the US sees a lack of democracy, freedom of speech, human rights and other American values. For example, in Egypt. A year and a half ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, giving an annual speech on Internet freedom, said: “Internet access is an inalienable human right. It should be free and open, people should decide for themselves what information to draw from there and what information to share. Freedom of assembly, expression, and freedom to use online networks I would collectively describe as freedom of communication. The United States supports and will promote this freedom everywhere, and also urge all countries to follow our example. ” Egypt would have lived under Mubarak, if not for the all-powerful American Internet. “As soon as access to the Internet was restored there,” Clinton said, “all of Egypt immediately went online. People coordinated actions via e-mail, social networks like Facebook and Twitter played an important role. ”
Said millions of dollars Americans spend on circumventing restrictions imposed on the Internet by some governments, for example, in Syria, Iran, Vietnam, China, launching channels in the languages of the peoples of those countries that they want to connect to the "freedom of speech." Even America is fighting in the defense of offended bloggers and various opposition activists oppressed by the authorities.
Elena Gladkova пишетthat “since Obama’s arrival at the White House,“ democracy ”and“ human rights ”in the Russian Federation have spent more than $ 200 million from the pocket of American taxpayers”.
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Tanks, artillery, missiles, submarines and special forces - very expensive, and the victims can be. And the Internet - and cheap, and angry. And modern. In Egypt, everything turned out well, and now the State Department is doing things in Syria through Twitter and Facebook: insurgents with iPhones run around the battlefields, take off their atrocities and pass them off for the bloody cruelties of the Assad regime. And there, you see, the State Department will take seriously for Russia: Putin’s dictatorship will be dumped, and Navalny will be put in place of the dictator. Democratic way will elect. Or Udaltsova. And in the premiere of it will appoint Ksenia Sobchak. It is only necessary to organize more of the correct Internet!
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