Ten thousand Navalny and millions Sobchak
A search of Russia's leading opposition figures - Alexei Navalny, Ilya Yashin, Sergey Udaltsov, Ksenia Sobchak (now her name is usually placed next to the names of opposition leaders) - became the main topic of the past week in both Russian and many foreign media. The search was connected with the “swamp” case of 6 in May, in which opposition leaders are witnesses.
Boris Nemtsov, by the way, too searched and interrogated, but less about it in the media. Ksyusha Sobchak is much more popular.
In her apartment, the searchers found a safe, and in the safe - more than a million euros, 480 thousand dollars and 480 thousand rubles. All this good, overwork acquired, seized.
Navalny turned out to be much poorer than Sobchak: he was seized from him, not counting the children's camera and iPhone with iPad, 10 thousand rubles.
No, the famous blogger is hardly dying of hunger and begging for Moscow porches and markets, but he turned out to be sparsely cash.
But you think: Navalny has only ten thousand, and Sobchak has millions. And who has sponsors, sponsors, and again sponsors, whose names are sometimes published on the Internet? That's right, Navalny. Sponsors with him, and the money - Sobchak? Do you feel where your thoughts turn? ..
Alexey Navalny is an oppositionist with experience, and Ksenia is a famous TV presenter, of whom much (suppose) if not all, then much is possible, because Sobchak was her father. The same fighter for democracy comes from St. Petersburg. Therefore, the television celebrity relaxed. All she can.
You can keep millions in the apartment, without anyone and not fearing anything and in their free time laying out money on envelopes. Euro - here, dollars - there ...
You can open the door to the apartment for an early morning call. You can open the "negligee", thinking that behind the door is hardworking housekeeper. (This one was probably meant for one envelope from the safe. Salary).
You can even not look at the "peephole".
Everyone would live so easy. We, the Russian people, believe in a happy future, but Ksenia Sobchak had a happy present.
It was, yes gone.
In vain Ksyusha confused with the opposition. Now, the result will not give her peace of mind until she finds out the origin of every dollar, every euro and every ruble. This is cash. And then, if suspicion arises, the investigation will also be interested in bank accounts.
Probably, the sly opposition won back with Xenia, throwing Mr. Yashin into her bed so that it was safe to keep money and save Yashin himself.
But the trouble is that Ksenia is a passionate nature, and opposition rallies and protests, and at first the December elections, then March, overflowing with violations, falsifications, stuffing and bribes, did their job: the popular TV presenter, able to chain her country to the zomboyaschik of the country, found herself in the ranks protesters, in the heat of the struggle master the money generous sponsors.
All this guess, of course. Private opinion. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I, for example. Or President Putin. Or investigators who still authenticate Ksyushiny bills - because a lot of them, bills.
The authorities did not at first pay attention to the new oppositionist, but then, when 6 May reached major unrest, as a result of which they had to give the injured policemen apartments in Moscow, she pleased the witnesses. And in Russia, as any hereditary fighter for democracy should know, there is one small step from a witness to an accused. (However, this is not the case only in Russia; the demonstrators in modern Russia are often treated much softer than in developed democracies in Western Europe, USA or Canada with Japan. Recently, we have tightened legislation relating to meetings - taking an example from the democratic West. Yes, the speeches of the “swamp” protesters, it must be supposed, made the legislators have a positive idea to bring the Russian laws closer to the laws of the free foreign world).
In short, they came to the TV presenter, searched her apartment, and found an 121 envelope with money in a safe. In fact, her apartment was mainly for Yashin and his belongings. Sam Yashin said that: “The first search found me in the morning at Ksenia Sobchak: armed riot police entered the apartment. Investigators presented a court order: I figured there as a suspect in organizing riots, Xenia’s apartment should be searched in connection with my possible finding there. ” But now it’s not so important who you came for ...
There was a time when Khodorkovsky had to explain where his money came from, but now citizen Sobchak will have to convince the investigator that part of the money was given to her, and part was borrowed by her. Journalist Julia Joffe пишет: “The once glamorous party girl, now Sobchak says that she’s ruined and forced to borrow money from her mother. “Well, at least they did not plant drugs,” she says. “I guess I should thank them for that.”
What drugs, madam glamorous party girl, are you? In Russia, there is complete democracy. All codes and orders.
In vain, the opposition comrades did not correlate with the Ksyushin temperament. It’s one thing to cohabit with Yashin, and another to move along “revolutionary” squares. Oppositionists didn’t notice how the scandalous reputation of the presenter rolled back into the past. Now Ksenia Sobchak is the star of the new Russian revolution, done, as many will think, through envelopes with euros, dollars and - to a lesser extent - rubles. The national currency of the opposition is clearly not in high esteem. Western worldviews, the opposition something.
Comrade Zhirinovsky and says: “The fact that a lonely woman at home has such a huge amount indicates that it is clearly of criminal origin. Doesn't mean she stole. But, perhaps, she was given to those actions that may be anti-state in nature. And considering her love of politics for the past year or two, then, most likely, this is money received from the American embassy, from some structures of the West. Or from our structures that want to fight the government. ”
“Structures of the West” in the person of the US State Department have already expressed their discontent with searches and arrests of fighters for democracy in Russia. Victoria Nuland already ready to lift “A series of serious questions about the subjective use of law to attack free speech and freedom of assembly.”
Ksenia Sobchak is an outstanding (yes, I’m not afraid of this word) television presenter, famous throughout the country. Russia is not Qatar for you; she is not small And Ksyushu in every village know. Well, think, scandalous fame: who has it now not scandalous? .. And this very fame, especially television, is the very thing for politics. Who will listen to (watch) the unknown (unknown)?
But in the scandalous glory of citizen Sobchak - the second serious puncture of the opposition.
If Navalny is a fiery anti-corruption fighter, a man with a gloomy open face, who wants to believe no less than once, then who is Ksenia Sobchak with a whole bunch of indecent nicknames spread on the Internet? If Navalny can really embarrass someone, fervently speaking of the “party of crooks and thieves,” then who will follow Ksyusha? TV viewers of TNT?
Although, perhaps, the Russian oppositionists were precisely counting on this ... One worthy person who entered history, spoke about “not by number, but by skill,” and the present protesters applied the newest Chinese formula: they decided to advance the ability to put a number. But even here they failed. And even then: they are not Chinese. The started “Marsh of millions” - whether with the money of the State Department, with the money of Russian sponsors, free of charge - turned into a dull and hopeless “Walking of thousands”.
And the face of anti-corruption Alexei Navalny was smeared with Ksenia Sobchak’s face.
Would you live for yourself, Ksenia Anatolyevna, and no further off - do not play you in opposition games. One would have opened the door to a cleaner without risking to run into a hefty riot policemen with automatic weapons one fine day. And now they will teach you to value both freedom and independence.
The authorities in Russia are not fools. It is foolish to think about power as if it is impassable stupid and does not know what to do. She not only knows how to act, but also acts. If the power is your opponent, then you should not underestimate this opponent.
Now, when people decide to talk about the Russian opposition, Ksyusha Sobchak will immediately come to mind. And then millions from the safe will come to mind.
And it will no longer be possible to seriously talk about protests, or about the democratic movement, or about the dictator Putin and his tyrannical team. It is impossible. Say what you like, but the opposition will now smell foul. Well, not the opposition, but a purely television show: with scandalous glory, morning "negligee" and millions in envelopes ...
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