In March 2014 in Crimea, a referendum on accession to Russia is held. The Russian Armed Forces support this endeavor. All is correct, otherwise the sunny peninsula can turn into one big Odessa House of Trade Unions. Ukraine is deeply mentally ill (even more so than Russia). Whatever it was, the countries of the West are imposing sanctions against Russia. Foreign banks stop lending to some Russian enterprises. Its gold and currency assets in the Russian Federation are hundreds of billions of Euros-dollars, but they are kept (so that they are not stolen), in securities of the same Europe and North America (for interest percentages per annum). In one way or another, the President and his oligarchic friends seem to take this attitude very offensively, and then, of course, they introduce unsanctions. The main purpose is to establish an iron curtain for foreign food products, medicines and certain types of high-tech products. The damage to the people of Russia from the unsanctions of the President exceeds the damage from sanctions (if it exists at all) in tens or hundreds of times.
The third bell is a demonstrative destruction of foodstuffs stopped at the customs. Its strange that all this blasphemy is permitted by a man whose own brother died of hunger and disease in besieged Leningrad. Then all these calls merge into a single alarming buzz. The entry of troops into Syria results in the death of people, considerable financial expenses, deprivation of citizens of the Russian Federation for an inexpensive and high-quality holiday in Egypt, then Turkey.
In August 2016, contrary to the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the laws that emanate from Moscow, then (the imitative principle in an authoritarian society) and regions, the second, most powerful wave of demolition of the so-called self-construction is rolled. To build something autocratically in the capital is impossible in principle. These buildings are quite necessary for citizens, for the erection of cafes retail outlets, etc., there is permission from state structures but this is all simply not interesting to the resurgent System. The third, already rising wave is the total demolition of 5,17 thousand good Moscow five-story houses (together with infrastructure facilities, schools, kindergartens and hospitals), the construction of skyscrapers to which of the all-Russian budget in the pocket of Putins friends, the Rothenberg brothers, without special obstacles are allocated 55 billion dollars.
National Champions V. Putin commodity campaigns. We do not know for sure whether the ultimate enlargement of these political and economic entities has led to an increase in labor productivity. Compare, in general, there is nothing. Perhaps, it is due to its specificity (taken out of the ground quickly sold) raw mastodons are devoid of any creativity of thinking, and are not able to lead the country along the path of development, as they say, of innovative technologies. In total, 110 Friends of Putin billionaires, who have ridden raw materials, have at their disposal at least 35% of the national wealth of the country. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the offshore (or simply, abroad) 75% of the national income of the country is deduced. Most of the financial transactions are made outside the Russian Federation. Money is not something that is derived from the Russian Federation, they are simply there, and do not even look. All this makes Putins Russia very much like a raw-material colony of the United States and Great Britain (how many serious money transactions on the territory of the Russian Federation are conducted through the Bank of England offices in the British Virgin Islands).
There is a rearmament of the Army. For this purpose, not less than 22 trillion is allocated. rubles (2, 2 trillion rubles, 42 billion dollars a year). The annual expenditure on health care is 0.6 trillion. R. Note that a significant number of so-called. Defense enterprises private, some state, and there is a mixed type. The prices for their products are set arbitrarily. The procurement procedure is completely opaque. Yes, it may seem to you that everything is all right, its a military secret, but, in fact, even at the edge of consciousness, you do understand that we are being deceived again and again? A significant part of strategic enterprises actually belongs to foreigners. There, abroad, our money is leaking out so easily. Television, the Internet is sometimes shown by some new miracle tank, or a projected PAK-FA airplane, but, in fact, these things are either stuck (on the Red Square, in preparation for the parade), or fly like that at all wrong. The current basis for arming the Russian Army is Soviet technology. Yes, it is modernized, and huge amounts of money are allocated but this modernization is reduced, for the most part, to the replacement of oil and the painting of armored cars.
Wherever the military units really are, are on alert. But, in the main part of the RA, the activity of officers is more and more reduced to simple clerical work. From the soldiers barracks, the weapons room, its interesting to avoid any emergency situations (which can lead to dismissal, loss of wages of 120 thousand rubles and many pleasant benefits), small arms are deposited in a warehouse. The Russian Army, perhaps, is somewhat better than the Soviet Army, a model of the 70s of the last century: crippled the psyche and, at times, the bodies of soldiers, but it is definitely a paper tiger.
It should be noted that the so-called. Re-equipment of the Russian army, bravado of Russian top officials in the style of Well beat you all, incidents with the Coalition aircraft in Syria are quite beneficial to the governments of Western Europe and the United States. They also need to maintain their population in a tone and, yes, have serious reasons for sending funds to the military-industrial complex. Only they have it all goes to their advantage, because:
1) Advanced military technology is freely transferred to civilian.
2) The active functioning of the MIC makes it possible to avoid a crisis of overproduction.
3) Clever boys from MIT, Harvard, Cambridge, etc. receive a lot of money, for work head and hands, which is very like beautiful girls; and thus, together, they enrich the gene pool of their state in every possible way.
In Russia, though, the invented engineers of the military-industrial complex are deprived of the opportunity to transfer the received technologies to a citizen, because thats all, ah, always such an inconceivably secret. We also, perhaps, never had a crisis of overproduction. Insane allocations to the military industry only ruin the country.
Obtaining a visa in the Russian Federation, the stay of foreign citizens from developed democratic countries on the territory of Russia is complicated in every possible way. The citizens of Russia themselves are prohibited from dual citizenship (except in Tajikistan and Turkmenistan). Maybe, in this way, the government of the Russian Federation is really struggling with some evil influence of the West? Is it not more believable, friends, the version that we are simply not allowed to communicate with the simple people of those states where officials are controlled by the people through democratic procedures, do not take bribes, behave like goodies and judges are not allowed to drive drunk while driving? John, Smith, Luke, Adam Jessica, Marietta, etc. in a friendly conversation, over a cup of tea, can explain how to create similar things in Russia. Yes, some in the governments of their own countries see the Russian Federation as a commodity colony, with a well-disguised external management. Yes, external audit of all serious organizations of Russia and now, right up to the infamous Uralvagonzavod, is carried out by foreign auditing companies Deloitte, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Company But tourists, missionaries, technologists do not with them there is a single conglomerate. Most of them wish us, and all people of the Earth all kinds of good. To help friends from Russia, they are not given by Russian officials and, at times, ours, alas, is a conservative worldview.
Thus, some of the demonstrative attacks by Russian leaders on Western countries, engaging media broadcasts, in the style of Our Friends Only the Army and the Fleet, are part of the system of camouflage of the colonial government.
We once listened to this man with bated breath. Surprisingly, until around 2012 (excluding a scratch on the glass the abolition of gubernatorial elections), everything seemed to be right. Now (2018) we only switch radio or TV. Speeches are sometimes, as it were, true: against corruption, offshore, for small business, to the world peace, no war, with a warning about the danger of artificial intelligence, and all the like. But all this is like what? Imagine, youre on the bus, and our driver is the Russian President. The driver turns around and starts to say: The bus is not going there, we can crash into that tree, or fly into the ditch. Heres the news? Well, you have the steering wheel, pedals, levers, all controls, well, so do something, youre a driver! But, in response no meaningful actions, again vysprennye proclamations. Someone from the passengers, somewhat imbued with the words of the driver, rushes to the steering wheel, but Vladimir Vladimirovich gives that to his hands. You have no rights.
Now this is the situation.
Literary resources are full of books in which the Stalinist dictatorship, autocracy, unconditional denial of democracy, are depicted in the most attractive light. Such collections, literally: are brought by the Office of the President of Russias affairs in the register of publications recommended for reading to public servants and public and political figures, are kept in the TOP for electronic readers for years. Yes some freedom of speech on the Internet is still available. Other authors also oppose directly, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. But, when they link their arguments praising the political system of modern Ukraine, approve murder Vatnikov in the Donbass, the shelling Grad residential quarters, praised the Georgian ex-president Saakashvili and also trying in every way to humiliate the Russian people. With the likes of enemies, and no apologists style Dzhugashvili is not necessary The deep confusion in the minds, closed on themselves and neighbors, apathy, ernichane, rage and impotence these are the modern state of the noosphere (2018) Russia.
In 20002008, people are addicted to consumption: they buy all new cars, gadgets, spend money on empty entertainment, foreign trips, etc. This, of course, is not so bad. However, for all that they do not seek to raise their level of consciousness, education, do not try to master at least the very basics of governing the state through known democratic procedures. As a consequence, in the end, many of the money earned by citizens begin to swim more quickly in an unknown direction. Lost captains, his team deploys the ship not to where the passengers want, but to an unknown, it seems, the President himself, the side.
At the present time, colonial Russia, and people who are so fond of flaunting what others think for them, are preparing to accept the fourth term of VVPs rule. There is practically no alternative. Without swinging, confident enough, the governor is capable of managing the country only, perhaps, the presidential governor. But, all heads of regions now (since 2004) are nominees of the incumbent President and, according to the laws of some corporate ethics, do not put forward their candidatures for this high post.
Private life. From 1983 to 2013 marriage with Lyudmila Aleksandrovna (Shkrebneva), by profession philologist. Children two daughters (who studied at Moscow State University and St. Petersburg State University under foreign surnames), are now married. According to some reports, Lyudmila is getting married a second time in 2016, for the head of a certain Center for interpersonal communications.
Vladimir Putins interests mountain skiing, judo, hockey. V.P. fluent in English and German.
3. Alexis 2 (Alexei Mikhailovich Ridiger) the birth of 1929, Tallinn since childhood help to clergymen in the altar (as a novice), since 1946 the service of the psalmist (sexton) in the Kazan church of the city of Tallinn. Admission to the Leningrad Theological Seminary, and then the Academy. In 1950 married to a former classmate Vera Alekseeva, four days later, according to the statute of the Russian Orthodox Church the realization of the possibility of taking priests dignity (despite the fact that Ridiger did not accept monasticism). And, in the first year of service, there is a gap between Father Alexei and Mother Vera. The permission for divorce (and the subsequent service) is given by a certain ruling priest, Gregory.
Recall that according to the fundamental canons of the Russian Orthodox Church, the divorced priest, with the exception of more than rare cases, where the priest is, without any reasons, initiator, is prohibited in worship (that is, directly, ceases to be). Yes, he can continue climbing in the church hierarchy after the death of his wife, or her voluntary retirement to the monastery. But, again to marry (there are no exceptions) no.
Alexey serves in the church, continues his studies at the theological academy, and finishes it with the title of candidate of theology (course composition Metropolitan of Moscow Filaret as a Dogmatist). In 1959, he takes monastic vows. At the Tallinn department, Alexis, who eventually becomes Metropolitan and Archbishop, serves until 1968.
1974 Metropolitan of Tallinn and Estonian publicly approves the deportation (according to the decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR) of the writer, the exposer of the GULAG, Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
In 1975, according to credible independent sources, Ridiger founded the Rodina society, which serves as a cover for the activities of the KGB. The same Office contributes to his further successful career.
In 1984, Alexy became a doctor of theology. For some time he was the manager of the affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate. In 1989, the Metropolitan; interestingly, is elected by the peoples deputy of the USSR from the Soviet fund of mercy and health.
After the death of Patriarch Pimen in May 1990, the Local Council (June 7 of the same year) elects Metropolitan Alexy II, the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, known to us.
In 1996, with the application of the new Patriarch, taking advantage of the privileges presented by the states, the ROC receives from Germany, and resells, 18 billion cigarettes free of charge, 7% of the legal market of the Russian Federation. Later, as a result of the scandal raised by other tobacco kings, Alexy II refuses this temptation.
In 1998, Alexis II awarded A. Solzhenitsyn the Order of Saint Prince Daniel of Moscow II degree.
In 2008, Alexei dies of a heart attack. The legacy is about 300 million rubles. passes to the closest associate of the Patriarch from the mid-1960s, Abbess Philaret (Alexandra Smirnova).
Revenues of the ROC:
1. Mug donations of parishioners, made during and after the service. They are not considered the main source of income, but rather a prize to priests (black cash) for a job well done.
2. Sale of candles Candle, about 65% of all income.
3. Goods everything sold by the temple shop in addition to candles church wine, icons, books, ornaments.
4. Trebs baptism, funeral service, reading memorial notes, and the like.
In addition, the income of the Russian Orthodox Church includes direct state inflows, large donations from private individuals (often with a thorough criminal past), and also the amounts obtained as a result of the monetization of various kinds of benefits.