Kamis, 06 Oktober 2011

A modified Russia arches one eyebrow on Putin's staged antics - New York Times

The scene by a camera team sensed and converted on the evening news Mr Putin as wide-chested Renaissance man, for his listless approval stages. Scenes of Mr Putin, to defy the elements - tranquilizing a Tigress, tender feeding sugar to horse or an arrow at a whale of a rubber boat shoot - are an integral part of political life in Russia.
It was long suspected that his actions were not spontaneous. However, it was remarkable, see Mr Putin's Press Secretary, Dmitri S. Peskov, surrounded by a very skeptical journalists that try, as had been fine as possible to explain that Mr Putin staged much-hyped dive in August.
"See," said Mr Peskov good-natured in the show, which was released late Tuesday. "Putin found no amphora, which had been lying on the bottom for many thousands of years." This is obvious.
In particular one that has been cleaned the sterile condition.
"they who either left it, or they they there put,", he said. "This is completely normal." "There is absolutely no excuse for malicious joy and so on."
Mr Peskov interview on Takogo TV, one naughty, Web based news channel, made this much clear: Mr Putin is a country that changed considerably since 2008 he has as last item that retained the Presidency returned. To increase, after striking efforts to his popularity he appears stopped a slow decline in his approval rates their lowest point since 2005, according to the levada Center - now have 68 percent.
But he has to draw some leverage with influential urban elites that the persuasive effects of social programs and Government-controlled television are increasingly immune.
Mr Peskov knows the shouting, that goes in the capital, and he faced them directly in a rare interview, said: "we have some explaining to do." Over all, but his response ran on a harsh demographic truth: Moscow can return, but Russia not like Mr Putin, and Russia is greater.
"" Are in Moscow we often hear the words, "Why he come back?" "Mr Peskov told.""We often travel in Russia, and find there is different than for those problems, the life in the garden ring"surrounds the center of the city", and who can write two or three hours a day, on blogs and social networks to spend."
"Sitting in Moscow, one could say:" it's hard for me to breathe here. It is suffocating. I will the banks of the Thames 'he said later.',And there are people who specifically sit and say "Listen, if my taxes were three percentage points lower, everything for me and my dairy would work." This is what I mean - there are different levels of the problem. "
The Kremlin has navigates between these user groups for more than a century. Lenin dismissed Moscow's intelligence as "not the brain of the nation", but "the excrement of the nation", while others have argued that Russia elite can be excluded without the consent of Moscow. Mr Putin chose a dissertation on the other in the replacement of President Dmitri A. Medvedev, the Moscow Liberals with the hope had reassured that their ideas would take hold.
Thus hope snorted out, many have to Putin as a repeat of the Soviet Breschnew, Leonid I, jumped on the image of Lord's 18 years of power as the era of stagnation was known. Mr Peskov, which was clearly in favour of this question until ball bets, said on Tuesday that he the early part of the Brezhnev period saw as a positive model.
"People really Brezhnevization Putin, talk, although this is said by people who know absolutely nothing about Brezhnev", said Mr Peskov. "You know, is not some kind of Brezhnev minus for the history of our country;" It's a big plus. "He laid the Foundation for our economy, agriculture and so on."
Curled his remarks by Russian sites in the morning. Up to the afternoon the editors of Gazeta.ru, an online newspaper often criticism of the Government, said they would be looking for glowing television retrospective on Brezhnev, whose leading, she wrote, connected would not with bulging ideology, but with "stable, peaceful, gradual growth."
"Putin returns as President of a primarily Soviet majority, to power in economic and political coordinates that are little different life from the Brezhnev era" she wrote in an unsigned editorial. "For this apolitical, paternalistic aligned post-Soviet amount, the Secretary-General, the President or the leader of the nation (this must be stressed) - is the only hope and support."
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