TOP 10 RUSSIAN POLITIC MEME

It is no longer possible to perceive the words of high-ranking leaders of Russia. And this is not the personal opinion of the author. Ordinary Russians, who were included in the lists of "80%", "86%", "89%", openly say and write that if earlier, behind frank nonsense, flat jokes and jokes of politicians, some insidious plan of the Kremlin towers was presented - "a cunning plan for the victory of Russia throughout the world. Now it is already more clearly noticeable - unprofessionalism and incompetence, licentiousness, disrespect for their people and just a lie.

We decided to give a few examples of high-ranking empty talk, combining them into a kind of "hit parade". These phrases have not only spread all over the Internet networks of Russia, but have also become the subject of ridicule over our country and in foreign media.

NO MONEY, BUT YOU HOLD ON!

First place, of course, for the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. It was a response to question of the Crimeans about low songs and high prices:

“There is just no money right now. We will find money - we will make indexation. You stay here, all the best, good mood and health to you.

In general, to teach politicians not to say the word “no” to their voters is one of the first tasks of political technologists and image makers. This is a kind of basics. But apparently, the situation in the state is so horrendous, and the scale and uncontrollability of theft are so great that the head of government has neglected these rules and is no longer shy in choosing expressions.

Remember the joke about the three envelopes? The old leader hands over the affairs to the new one and gives three envelopes with parting words to open one at a time when it becomes especially difficult. The first such moment came - he opened the first envelope - the inscription: "Blow everything on me." The second moment came: "Promise." A third happened: "Prepare three envelopes." Blaming the USSR is already futile, they do not believe. There is nothing to promise, everyone sees and feels everything on the decline in their own well-being. Perhaps it is time for the authorities to remember about the third envelope.

Now to the question of money. Is it possible that in the near-Kremlin political technology headquarters there was not a single more or less qualified personnel who would explain to their customers that when Putin promises to build a Disneyland for 10 billion, one should not splurge on the people about the lack of funds. When Russia is waging a strange war in Syria worth tens of billions of rubles, you can’t explain to the people that there is no money. People will not believe in the absence of appropriations against the backdrop of billions for Skolkovo (which - quite likely - can be taken away), hundreds of billions for additional capitalization of banks and brave Russia from the economic forum in St. Petersburg.

The apogee of the mockery of the people of Russia was the statement of the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov: “This is a government issue, our government has the broadest powers. I do not think that it would be correct to comment on the decisions of the government, and even more so the head of the cabinet.”. Everything is turned upside down, the government is completely unaccountable to the head of state, the Duma! And complete lack of accountability to the people who elected him! But as usual - an explanation, the king is good, these are bad boyars ...

IT'S FUNNY BUT POPULAR

Second place in the hit parade we give to the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Igor Shuvalov, who, during his visit to Kazan, said: “We were shown apartments of 20 sq. It is possible to create something completely incomprehensible from 60 square meters, or you can create a comfortable modern apartment.”

This is the same liberal Shuvalov, who just over a year ago at the economic forum in Davos was marked by a verbal “pearl” that in order for Vladimir Putin to remain president, people are ready to endure any hardships. But does Shuvalov himself suffer hardships? It turns out not!

According to Igor Shuvalov's declaration, he has four apartments in Russia ranging from 73.8 to 175.7 square meters. In addition, he rents a house in Austria (1480 square meters) and also rents an apartment in the UK, which is 483 square meters. However, independent experts have long been saying that the "rent" is fictitious, and Shuvalov rents a castle in Austria, an apartment in London and a villa in Dubai from himself.

British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke about the determination to put an end to money laundering through the purchase of London real estate a year ago. Speaking in Singapore, he said that the UK should not become "a haven for criminally obtained Money from all over the world". It was a hint, including to Russian high officials.

EAT LESS

Third place. Sverdlovsk deputy from the United Russia party Ilya Gaffner advised Russians to eat less if they do not have enough money for food.

"It's not so scary. If there is not enough money, you need to remember that we are all Russians, Russian people, we have gone through both hunger and cold ... You just need to think about your own health: eat less, for example ", - advised Gaffner in a commentary to the Yekaterinburg TV channel during a raid on stores in order to check prices.

According to statistics, 17.4 percent of Russians (24 million) live below the poverty line, that is, they have an income below 5,083 rubles per person. More than a third of the population of Russia have unstable, non-standard, episodic, often not formalized work. At the same time, the cost of the minimum set of food products on average in the country is 2225.67 rubles, and for an apartment and public utilities sometimes you have to pay more than five thousand rubles.

Hidden hunger is practically already observed in Russia, Russians, especially children, do not receive a large number of essential vitamins and minerals. In 2016, the salary of State Duma deputies, according to some media reports, increased from about 400 thousand rubles to 800 thousand rubles.

TO HONEST, I DON'T KNOW MY SALARY

Fourth place. These words belong to the President RF to Vladimir Putin: “I don’t know Sechin’s salary. To be honest, I don’t know mine either - they bring it, I fold it. Employees of large companies receive solid money. But it is necessary to compare their salary not with the average salary in the country, but with the salaries of their foreign colleagues..

It must be admitted that there were legends about Igor Sechin's fabulous salary long before Putin's memorable conference. That is why the question the journalist asked the president is quite reasonable. Here is what they wrote about Sechin's earnings in 2014: “Being the head of the company, starting in 2012, this charming man appointed himself an immodest salary of $ 50 million a year, which is 5 million rubles a day. Yes, yes, you heard right, 5 million a day!” In 2014, the exchange rate of the ruble is two times lower than today!

And one more detail: in July 2013, the President of Russia ordered to disclose information about the income of certain categories of Russians. In particular, the decree established that state corporations and state companies created on the basis of federal laws are required to post information about income, expenses, property and property obligations of their leaders on their official websites, as well as provide this data to the all-Russian mass media.

CORDS WILL SEND ALL

Fifth place. Another Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin never ceases to amaze with his clowning in front of the public reading it. Behind Last year he spoke from three boxes. The last "hit" - he supported the idea to send the leader of the "Leningrad" group Sergey Shnurov to the next Eurovision to Ukraine.

“We will send Shnurov to the next Eurovision. He won’t win, but he will send them all somewhere”, - Rogozin wrote on Twitter.

Sergei Shnurov responded to the idea of ​​​​Dmitry Rogozin with his causticity: “We survived. It turns out that out of 140 million citizens, even just one can send a ***.

MANNERHEIM - "PERSONALITY" IN RUSSIAN HISTORY

Sixth place behind the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, as well as the head of the administration, Sergei Ivanov, with a high-ranking retinue. Everyone talked and posed enough.

In particular, commenting on the participation of the head of the presidential administration S. Ivanov at the opening in St. Petersburg of a memorial plaque mounted on the facade of the building of the Military Academy of Logistics in honor of Hitler's ally Karl Mannerheim, D. Peskov said: “Indeed, Mannerheim’s personality is still hotly debated, but it can be said with absolute certainty that this is an outstanding personality, a personality related to our history, and a personality whose role historians will study for a long time to come.”

At such a pace, the authorities will soon proclaim Vlasov, Bandera, Shukhevych as outstanding personalities, and then “glory to the heroes!” - give a hand. Just a cast from the Ukrainian events, with which the propaganda persistently frightened the Russians.

NASTAMNET

Seventh place. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that Russia is already doing everything to end the conflict in Ukraine, but we must not forget that the conflict is internal Ukrainian.

"Everything that Russia can do to end the conflict, it is already doing: de facto helping the economy of Ukraine, providing coal, electricity, and so on, and sending strings of humanitarian convoys to people in trouble in the southeast"- said Peskov in an interview.

A position that does not stand up to scrutiny. No one in Russia has ever thought of calling the conflicts in Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia intra-Moldovan or intra-Georgian. From the point of view of Ukraine and the international partners of the Kremlin, Donbass (its part - ORDILO) is an occupied territory. To substantiate this argument, any Western functionary will give an example of the exchange of the Ukrainian military criminal Savchenko for the Russian servicemen Erofeev and Aleksandrov. That is, Russia's participation in the conflict is evident.

Vladimir Putin openly spoke about the events in Ukraine in St. civil war, scare the Russian-speaking population in the south-east of Ukraine and in the Crimea. What is all this for? And after that, after we were forced, simply forced to take measures to protect certain groups of the population, we began to further unwind this spiral, to pump it up.”

No one in the West has removed the issue of Crimea from the agenda, which is one of the sore points of the Kremlin, for which the negotiating rubber stretches, and in fact, such human sacrifices of the Russian population of Donbass are made. There is no way that Moscow will be able to solve the issue of Crimea in isolation from the rest of Novorossia. In any case, in the short term. But who does Peskov want to convince with mantras that Russia is in no way involved in the conflict? What about himself?

WE NEED AMERICA

Eighth place. No one doubted before that the United States was not just actively intervening in internal politics Russian Federation, but also pursued their own policy through their fifth column in power. However, speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the President of the Russian Federation actually admitted this to the entire honest public:

"America - great country, today is probably the only superpower. We accept this, we want and are ready to work with the United States... The world needs such a powerful country as the United States, and we need it. But we don’t need them to constantly interfere in our affairs, tell us how to live, prevent Europe from building relations with us.” Putin stressed.

These words in the blogosphere were called a recognition of the president's own surrender and his team, and that the Americans do not just interfere in Russian politics, but do it all the time! Our people have already observed something similar during the reign of Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader who led the country to collapse.

DID NOT REFUSE DIALOGUE WITH Kyiv

ninth place. Once again, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was struck when answering the question why Russia recognized the referendum in Crimea, but did not recognize it in the DPR and LPR during the “direct line” in Komsomolskaya Pravda.

“The referendum in Crimea was held under known conditions. But following the results of the referendum in Donbass, they did not refuse dialogue with Kiev. The result was a package of Minsk agreements. They never refused to talk to Kiev.” Lavrov said.

In fairness, it must be said that Moscow also did not refuse dialogue with Berlin, which resulted not in any collusion - an intermediate and impracticable protocol, but in the capitulation of Germany in May 1945.

And did Crimea refuse dialogue with Kiev? No. Simply by virtue of its transition under the jurisdiction Russian Federation, the Kremlin continued the conversation on behalf of Crimea. That's the whole difference.

By the way, on behalf of the DPR and LPR, Moscow is also quite freely engaged in a dialogue with Kiev and Western partners, which puts Sergei Viktorovich in an awkward position, from which he seems to be not going to get out. It's not even a position, it's not a position, it's a pose. After all, how could one say that the conversation between Donbass and Kiev eventually led to a package of Minsk agreements, if initially its points were written on the famous knee Russian President? Paradox!

KEEP IT UP!

Tenth place. Vice Speaker State Duma Russian son of politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky Igor Lebedev believes that there is nothing criminal in the fight between Russian fans and English fans at Euro 2016 in France, he said about this

Dedicated to the new premier term

Two years ago, on May 23, 2016, the Russian segment of the Internet was replenished with a new meme. Its author was Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

During the Prime Minister's visit to Feodosia, an elderly woman approached him. She did not introduce herself, but immediately asked the second person of the state a question about the sore point: “You said there would be indexation [of pensions], where is it in Crimea? What is 8 thousand? This is minuscule. Feet about us wipe here! It is impossible to live in retirement, the prices are crazy.” The prime minister did not find anything better than to answer: “It [indexation] is nowhere to be found, we didn’t accept it at all ... it’s just that there is no money now. We'll find the money, we'll index it. You stay here, all the best, good mood and health to you.

***

The idea of ​​the editorial board to find that same pensioner, which arose after the new appointment of Dmitry Medvedev to the post of prime minister, seemed crazy. First, we didn't even know her name. Secondly, the population of Feodosia with its suburbs is about one hundred thousand people. Looking for a nameless pensioner among a hundred thousand is unthinkable. All we had was a blurry screenshot from the video where the grandmother is talking to Medvedev.

First of all, I interviewed my Feodosia acquaintances. None of them knew their grandmother. A topic created at a local forum with a request to identify the grandmother turned into a political debate.

The photo with which I walked around Feodosia to look for a pensioner from the video with Medvedev

After going around two churches, fourteen shops, a clinic, a department of the Communist Party, interviewing a dozen people on the streets, and even frightening a woman who looked like the grandmother I needed (having approached her in an empty lane with the question: “Are you in the photo?”), I already thought report to the editor: "Empty lesson."

And suddenly I found a message on VKontakte: “It seems that this woman sells milk in the market.”

In the dairy pavilion of the Central Market, they really confirmed to me: “Yes, this is our Anya. And yes, she was talking to Medvedev.”

That's how I found out that the pensioner's name is Anna Buyanova, and that she lives 20 kilometers from Feodosia, in the village of Novopokrovka. “You will reach the village, and then ask - any house will show you,” they told me in the dairy pavilion. And so it happened.

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Anna Buyanova. Photo: Ivan Zhilin / Novaya Gazeta

Anna Buyanova lives on the outskirts of the village in a squat hut. I find her plucking a chicken.

For the first five minutes, she simply sighs: “From a Moscow newspaper? Here? But how is it? ..” Then he invites him into the house and apologizes many times: “We are repairing it here. Just started..”

Having brewed mint, he begins to remember.

- Well, I didn’t just go from myself [to Medvedev]. We have people in the market ... a team. They asked me: when the prime minister arrives, I need to tell him about pensions. I'm not the only one with a problem.

I replied: “Well, let's go. I can solve this issue."

“When Medvedev arrived, people were not allowed to see him. But I know Feodosia well, and I went through the yards on Aivazovsky. And went straight to where his car stopped. He saw that I was breaking through so brazenly, and told the guards to disperse.

And you asked him the same question...

- Well, yes, about pensions. You understand correctly: I have 30 years of experience, I worked as a cook in a canteen, then as a manager in a canteen, then as an educator in kindergarten, then the supply manager at the school. The minimum length of service required for a labor pension is 20 years, and I have 30 years of experience. But in the end, I get not a labor, but a social pension - 8,000 rubles.

- Why?

- Don't know. Pension Fund district does not give an extract for the second year. And without this, you can not complain to Simferopol.

Screenshot from video. The moment when Anna Buyanova asks Medvedev a question about the indexation of pensions

- After the Prime Minister's question, was your pension indexed after all?

— No. First they promised. They said that 11000 will be. But in the end, in April last year, they made only an allowance for the subsistence minimum. And now, instead of 8,058 rubles, I get 8,500. But this is not indexation.

"And how are you holding up?"

- But only thanks to the economy. 53 chickens, 4 turkeys, 2 ducks. The cow was removed last year. Plus a garden: potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers. Plus, their fruits grow. If I need to pay for electricity or gas, but I don’t have money, then I sell something: sometimes chicken, sometimes vegetables.

Selling, by the way, is also not easy - they came up with a whole scheme. First, a deputy from the village council should come to me to see that I really have my own garden. Then he draws up an act of inspection, with which I go to the head of the village council. The head of the village council, in the presence of two witnesses, neighbors, checks the act: he asks them whether beets really grow on my site, whether there are chickens. And when witnesses confirm, he gives me a certificate that I can sell.

In the market in Feodosia, I have my own place - 55th. It costs 50 rubles a day. And another 100 rubles I spend on the road from Novopokrovka and back. In July and August, when I sell cucumbers and tomatoes, things are going well: I can earn 600, I can earn 800, I can even earn 1,000 rubles a day. And in winter it happens that I sell some potatoes for only 200 rubles. And it turns out: 200 rubles minus 100 for the road, minus 50 for a place ... 50 rubles a day, sometimes I earn.

Was it always this hard?

“I must say, life was easier under Ukraine. The hryvnia was solid, but the ruble ... turned out to be some kind of empty one.

Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta.

You get more money, but you go to the store: you spent everything - you didn’t buy anything. But from January 1, 2019, as they promise, there will be a revision of the subsistence minimum again: the smallest pension will be 12,000 rubles. So the Sobes said. Here we are waiting...

- So this time they promise seriously?

— They say yes.

- Dmitry Medvedev was again appointed prime minister ...

“You know, my heart skipped a beat the other day. On TV they showed Putin shaking his hand. And I realized: "It will happen again." Since Putin shook his hand, it means that they will continue to be friends.

- And how do you like this fact?

— It seems to me that this has been done in vain. Medvedev will not give us anything. But, on the other hand, for some reason I think that this time Putin will tighten the screws on him. Putin also read about his billions ( refers to the scandal provoked by the investigation of the Navalny team. — I. Zh.). So maybe now Medvedev will be more responsible.

***

Anna Buyanova in her chicken coop. Photo: Ivan Zhilin / Novaya Gazeta

Saying goodbye, Anna asks if I have money for the return trip.

- It is strange to hear such a question from a person who barely makes ends meet.

- Well, anything can happen. she smiles. “Maybe we need help. Good deeds must also be done.

And pensioner Anna Buyanova is hiding behind the fence of her house. She goes on to pluck a chicken in the garden, which grows potatoes, cucumbers and beets, and which feeds her along with a poor pension, which has not changed much after a conversation with the country's prime minister.

Novopokrovka village, Feodosiya, Crimea

Words by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who wished pensioners in Crimea
"good mood" and advised "hold on" could be taken out of context,
at the same time, the size of the pension in the Russian Federation is an order of magnitude higher than in Ukraine.
Putin stated.

We all misunderstood.
Here it is.

“The government is aimed at fulfilling all social obligations. This I can tell you for sure.
I did not see Dmitry Anatolyevich speak about this. You can always either take some phrase from the context as such,
or take it from that general conversation: everything can be the same in words, but in spirit the meaning can look somehow different,” the head of state said.

First of all, the Cabinet, according to Putin, is trying to support the low-income segments of the population,
However, in the current difficult situation, I have to look for various solutions to the problem.
“What are these options? Or index social benefits, including pensions, without even complying
Let's say with budget revenues. Or try, on the one hand, to index by some value,
but take all measures to suppress inflation,” the president said.

Putin cited Ukraine as an example, recalling that inflation there reached 48 percent in 2015 with pensions
the size of which is an order of magnitude lower than in Russia. “The average pension we have is $200, in dollar terms, and in Ukraine it is $76.
There is a difference? Yes, we indexed at least four percent. In Ukraine, there is no indexation at all,
plus raising the retirement age,” Putin concluded.

The network published footage of Medvedev's conversation with the inhabitants of the peninsula, who complained
that "it is impossible to live on a pension, the prices are crazy."
In response, the head of government referred to the lack of funds and assured that "there is no indexation at all anywhere."

“If we find money, we will index it. You stay here, all the best, good mood and health to you, ”- wished
Prime Minister, after which he left the meeting place.

The phrase has become catchy.

Well, in general...
We all misunderstood.
Let's hold on!

Bloggers recommend using universal phrases from the dialogue between the prime minister and pensioners to answer collectors and the tax

This morning, a powerful information attack on the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation began on social networks. The viral video recording of his meeting with the Crimeans became an occasion for jokes and offensive photoshops. BUSINESS Online experts believe that Medvedev clearly failed United Russia at a spontaneous meeting with the population.

CRIMEAN VOYAGE: “NO MONEY. YOU STAY THERE…”

A real scandal in social networks caused a video with the participation of the head Russian government Dmitry Medvedev. The day before, he paid a working visit to the Crimea, and this trip did not receive active information coverage, and his business trip was clearly lost in the news agency tapes. All that the federal media wrote about with reference to the Crimean colleagues was that Medvedev assessed the state of the museums of the peninsula as “not brilliant” and at a meeting in Feodosia promised to allocate more than 3.5 billion rubles for the development of culture in Crimea.

But the Crimeans made it clear to the Prime Minister that they were interested not only in cultural issues, but also in pensions. Apparently, Medvedev accidentally met with a spontaneous crowd of local residents near the restoration and exhibition center of underwater archeology, where the meeting was held. The conversation was raised, but the prime minister tried to remain calm.

The first, at midnight, to publish a video recording of a conversation with Medvedev was an oppositionist Alexey Navalny. Currently, the video has received almost 100 thousand views.

To the question of one of the pensioners about how to live on 8 thousand rubles, the prime minister replied: "There is no money, and we must be patient."

Resident: Wrong indexing is calculated for us!

Medvedev: Wrong?

Resident: Offend us! They don't even give 4 percent! What is 8 thousand?

Medvedev: We will deal with pensions throughout the country. But we can't do it in just one place.

Resident: But you said that there would be indexing.

Medvedev: She's nowhere to be found. We didn't accept at all. There's just no money right now. We will find money - we will make indexation. You stay here, all the best, good mood and health to you.

With these words, Medvedev left, accompanied by guards and local officials. A few hours later, he posted a photo of a rainbow taken on the peninsula on his Instagram and returned to Moscow.

INFORMATION ATTACK ON THE PREMIERE: “COLLECTORS COMING, AND YOU: “NO MONEY, BUT YOU HOLD ON!”

The information attack on Medvedev began early this morning. IN in social networks insulting photo-toads and sharp remarks addressed to the head of the Russian government were massively replicated. " And with the phrase “There is no money, but you hold on!” you can threaten America. It doesn’t sound very threatening, but it’s not a lie either, ”one of the users suggests. "Collectors come, and you: no money, but you hold on! And in the tax: there is no money, but you hold on!”- another blogger continues this thought.

The network also created a fake government decree, allegedly signed by Medvedev: “In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the government decides: 1) There is no money; 2) You stay here; 3) All the best, good mood, health to you, ”the text of the ironic decree reads.

Bloggers also suggest: “So soon Dmitry Medvedev will not return to Crimea. Only after retirement. Some, having adopted the phrase “There is no money, you stay there”, repost the news that they are asking for 49 billion rubles for the anniversary of AvtoVAZ and “penny”, and also remember the words Boris Berezovsky: “There was money. There will be money. Now there is no money."

With great enthusiasm, the bloggers accepted the parody: Medvedev's conversation with the Crimeans was beaten in the style of the famous hit “Come on, goodbye!”.

Today, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Crimea Dmitry Polonsky had to answer on the air of the radio station "Moscow Speaks". He said that the size of pensions in Crimea does not differ in level from other regions of Russia. Nevertheless, Polonsky promised to check the appeal of a local resident, whose conversation with the Prime Minister became a hit on YouTube.

Medvedev's visit to Crimea had other consequences - the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine protested: Kiev diplomats said that Medvedev's stay in Crimea was "an open disregard by the Russian authorities of the state sovereignty of Ukraine, evidence of a violation by the Russian Federation of the UN Charter, principles and norms international law".

“MEDVEDEV LOST, BUT STRATEGICALLY WILL WIN FROM THIS STORY...”

Alexey Mukhin- Russian political scientist, director general of the political information center

Of course, the premier expressed himself unsuccessfully in terms of political technologies, and now it will be necessary to bear responsibility for this. Moreover, he is the leader of a party that is included in the election campaign, and such careless expressions will be used against him by his opponents. And, as they say, in full - it's already obvious. Look at the outcry on social media.

I don't think it was a specially organized provocation. In the end, Dmitry Anatolyevich is free to say what he says. And this is not even a protocol error - the responsibility lies entirely with Medvedev! Perhaps he simply decided to complicate the election campaign for himself, in order to exit it with honor later. There is such a way - luring the enemy into an open field for an open duel, and for this the enemy needs to be provoked.

Here he, apparently, "provoked" - such a flurry of criticism addressed to him. It will not work out dry from this situation, now he will have to honestly answer uncomfortable questions.

Pavel Salin- Director of the Center for Political Studies of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation:

This definitely cannot be called a protocol error, because the protocol is not responsible for such things. Even if the audience is selected specifically for communication, there is no purely technological opportunity to probe it for possible questions. These are unstable formats, and in many ways everything happens spontaneously there. The probability that the question was spontaneous, I think, is over 50 percent.

The topic worries a significant part of pensioners in Russia, not only in Crimea. Prices have risen, and indexation of pensions is far away. It's just that after the annexation of Crimea to Russia, the incomes of the majority of residents did not increase or increased slightly. Significantly, they have grown only among the military and civil servants, but the prices for goods and products have caught up with Russian prices, although they used to be lower.

I admit the possibility of an information attack. Perhaps someone wanted to put Medvedev in an uncomfortable situation. By by and large this is an attack not only on the prime minister, for whom the electoral rating is important, but he is still the leader " United Russia and the election campaign is underway. However, the party's rating will not suffer from this either, because the existing publications do not emphasize Medvedev's connection with United Russia.

Medvedev found himself in a situation where he had to choose the lesser of two evils, because as head of government he could not promise a significant increase in pensions. From a factual point of view, he lost in this story, but from a strategic point of view, he will win.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, known for his memorable quotes, finally broke the long pause. Today, the head of the Cabinet of Ministers, whose statements "go to the people," denied the information about his illness, saying that he "did not get sick" at all. Although on March 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Dmitry Anatolyevich was “not saved” from the flu epidemic. Realnoe Vremya recalls the Prime Minister's brightest statements.

“Yes, I didn’t get sick”

The protracted silence of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was broken today when, at a meeting with representatives of the SME, he said that "he was not sick."

“Yes, I didn’t get sick,” Medvedev said when one of those present congratulated him on his recovery.

Recall, March 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Dmitry Medvedev fell ill with the flu. Discussing the epidemiological situation in Russia, the head of state said that the situation with influenza in the country “remains serious”, “that’s why they didn’t save Dmitry Anatolyevich.”

Almost the brightest quote from Medvedev was heard by the Crimeans, and later by the entire population of the country on May 23, 2016. Photo youtube.com

"There is no money, but you hold on"

However, almost the most striking quote from Medvedev was heard by the Crimeans, and later by the entire population of the country on May 23, 2016. The head of government said it when one of the local residents complained that pensions are not indexed, and "8 thousand rubles is not enough for life." Medvedev said in response to this: “There is simply no money now. We will find money - we will make indexation. You stay here, all the best, good mood and health to you.

"You can stir up anything you want"

This is exactly how Dmitry Medvedev spoke about the bill, according to which law enforcement the opportunity to initiate tax criminal cases without materials from the tax authorities returns. Interestingly, Vladimir Putin introduced the bill to the Duma. Then many started talking about difficult relations in political tandem. And the full phrase sounded even harsher:

“You can excite anything, especially by order and for money, which happens often when one structure fights with another!”

"About the cat"

The story of the cat Dorofei, Medvedev's favorite, became one of the most discussed topics in Runet in 2012. The commotion was caused by the information that the pet had allegedly escaped from the residence in Gorki.

Dmitry Anatolyevich commented on the situation with a post on Twitter. "About the cat. From sources close to Dorotheus, it became known that he did not disappear anywhere. Thank you all for your concern!

The story of the cat Dorofei, Medvedev's favorite, became one of the most discussed topics in Runet in 2012. Photo instagram.com/damedvedev

“The government cannot be shaken like a pear”

With this phrase, Medvedev explained in 2011 why during the years of his presidency not a single minister left his post due to unsuitability. “Not all accidents depend on the ministers, we really have a very difficult situation both in industry and in the economy. (...) The government cannot be shaken like a pear.”

"Barack, rest!"

So in 2010, Medvedev commented on the content of a telephone conversation with the American president to federal channels. In an interview with the press, Dmitry Anatolyevich then, in particular, said that his American colleague "is on vacation." So he wished him a good rest.

"Barack, rest! You did a good job!" - commented Medvedev.

"What I say is cast in granite"

No less popular saying of Dmitry Anatolyevich were his words, uttered at the end of 2009 at a meeting of the commission for the modernization of the economy and which, perhaps, were prophetic.

Then, in the status of the president of Russia, he, speaking at a meeting of the commission for the modernization of the economy, interrupted the general director of the state corporation Rostekhnologii, Sergei Chemezov, who tried to give the president an explanation for his "remark".

“No, mine doesn’t. Mine is not a replica already, but a verdict. You have replicas, and everything I say is cast in granite.

The saying was made by him after a fire in the Perm club "Lame Horse". Photo rg.ru

"Bastards without brains and conscience"

Medvedev called unscrupulous entrepreneurs scoundrels "without brains and without conscience". The saying was made by him after a fire in the Perm club "Lame Horse", where more than 150 people died in December 2009.

"Freedom is better than no freedom"

The Russians also remember Medvedev's statement made by him in 2008 at the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum, where he spoke with great election speech as a presidential candidate.

“Our policy should be based on the principle that I consider, despite all its obviousness, the most important for the activities of any modern state striving to achieve high standards of living. This is the principle "Freedom is better than lack of freedom."

"No need to whine"

The quote also applies to 2008. With this phrase, President Medvedev, while in Magadan, reacted to the complaints of entrepreneurs.

“I understand that it is not easy for business to work, that our bureaucracy is still heavy, but there is no need to whine.”

Damira Khairulina