Vladimir Putin turns to his grandfather. By peppy the guarantor of the Constitution, maybe it won’t, but old habits inadvertently punched through the outer youthfulness of the national leader. The President is cautious and conservative, at night, peacefully asleep, in the morning eating barley porridge, prone to long pauses in the process of responsible decision-making, which has become his “chip”.
None of us have ever been the first person in the hotel, but we can assume that in everyday life he is fine and nothing is lost. Spices laid out on a signed jars, vests and bubbling at the knees sweatpants not released, and found eternal rest on the top shelf of the closet. It might be useful. Not alone the sons-in-law. In the closet, carefully wrapped in a plastic bag for the carburetor K-126 from the twenty-first “Volga”, skis with sticks, scarce Astrakhan hat 83-year sewing, sheet, steel, three-liter jars with pickles… Why is that so and not otherwise? Yes, because with shots of Putin behaves the same way. Puts stuff in reserve, even most, at first glance, unnecessary, and lacking in Essentials.
For example, Mikhail Fradkov. Anyone else remember what was in our country a Prime Minister immediately after Mikhail Kasyanov and Viktor Zubkov? For 10 years this character is completely dropped from the media. The man in the street had no idea what he’s been up to fish or have fished the potatoes on six acres hill. Forgot all about it, though, and was not. And he headed the intelligence of the country I had left a month ago, like retirement. It turned out that never left. All this time the former head of the Cabinet seriously considered as one of the successors of Vladimir Yakunin the head of Russian Railways. But with the imminent “Vorkuta-Leningrad” did not grow together. But “drew” the other way. Yesterday it turned out that “Putin’s squire” will be headed by the concern “Almaz-Antey” – a very good place to to age. Group of companies, which manufactures air defense systems and protective anti-missile umbrella for half of the globe – structure with a turnover of several billion dollars per year. Nourishing, grain and the government is in walking distance. Though a Minister, though Deputy Prime Ministers pull out when necessary.
In the “commissioners” of the Railways, meanwhile, are tipped as Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich – that which Putin scolded for cancelled trains. Even this roughest jamb, exposing the weakness of the vertical of power in all its glory, not become the reason of disgrace of the official.
Anyway, bad summary in the public eye for the President then not so much. Sergey Kirienko – the person whose name is closely associated with the word “default”, sits at the head of the Putin administration and models the political strategy of the guarantor of the Constitution until 2018. And is not afraid because she will go bankrupt. It is rumored that after the main election for the post will be to claim another “sunk into oblivion” Putin ally Boris Gryzlov, stashed in the pantry national leader either on the “black”, “red” day.
“Disgraced belolentochnye” Alexei Kudrin at the head of the Center for strategic research nurtures plans for total privatization of everything. His figure POPs up regularly in the context of future changes in the government, at times, even as the Prime Minister. But have not yet found a worthy place on the shelf, Dmitry Medvedev, will have the ex-Minister of Finance to discuss with glazeware and titanami recklessly.
Vladislav Surkov is also slowly began to forget. Even the most devoted to the life of the Kremlin behind the scenes people today are unable to outline the terms of reference of the presidential assistant. It is able to do, perhaps, only Surkov himself and his patron, Vladimir Putin. It seemed that time “grey cardinal” of the middle zero is gone. But no! Purple little book of Putin’s wide leg falls a mysterious courtier during the October meeting in the Normandy format, talking with the chief. He’s trying to Woo the “nursing mother” of the Kiev Maidan Victory Nuland to give Kiev puppets on her hands, so far without much success.
And, for dessert, two bottles of strawberry jam preservation 1996, the year – Anatoly Chubais and Anatoly Serdyukov, the most odious top-managers of Russia. Both keep afloat, both are in near the presidential personnel reserve. Convicted of negligence, the former Minister of defence comiket with the management of “Russian Helicopters”, how to get rid of Ukrainian dependence in the production of power plants for our helicopters. And finally, “shadow ruler” of the country in the time of late Yeltsin is still in charge of nanotechnology, not paying any attention to the numerous scandals to which the “reformers” of the early 90s have developed a strong immunity.
If you dig deeper in the “human pantry” grandpa-Putin, it is possible to find many interesting, unexpected and covered with dust from ancient times. Federal officials pinned dusty bag, slightly defective and scratched, and need not very, the President saves as the Apple of his eye, refusing to thrown into the political trash the old stuff. Holds in reserve. Just in case, leaving no room for new ideas, things and people.
