Now the pre-election presidential debates in 2018 in Russia are accompanied by mutual insults from the candidates, of which the main attention is attracted by Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Ksenia Sobchak (the daughter of the former mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sfgdRhx96M. These offensive phrases are sometimes so obscene that the language does not turn to reproduce them one-to-one, so it looks disgusting and obscene. If the debate is a show business, then everything is clear: the more mutual insults, the higher the rating of the TV channel, without which it is very difficult to survive in tough competition nowadays. Is this the only way to raise your popularity? It's just disgusting to watch. Now this episode will be discussed all week as the main event. Before that there was also an episode when two famous media personalities Nikolai Svanidze and Maxim Shevchenko fought on TV because of Stalin's role https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_66KZ79lAgg
This episode was discussed all week. Now arrived a problem about sexual harassment of the head of the committee on international affairs of the State Duma of Russia Leonid Slutsky https://meduza.io/en/feature/2018/02/27/journalists-want-a-member-of-the-russian-parliament-investigated-for-sexual-harassment-he-thinks-the-allegations-are-hilarious . This episode will also be discussed throughout the week. In short, scandals, scandals, scandals, ...
Is this the real democracy? Maybe it's technology after all?
Dear J. C. Tarafdar,
in my opinion, modern Democracy - it is a Technology. Therefore, today's politicians are first of all actors who play their roles in a certain scenario. The Central Election Committee in the person of the chairman Ella Pamfilova said that what the candidates say and do on television during the debate are quite conscious actions, not spontaneous emotions. It's good that Zhirinovsky did not fight with Sobchak, as Svanidze did against Shevchenko. You must have noticed that Zhirinovsky only approached Sobchak and continued to insult her, which all this time only smiled. In general, all these games in democracy are already boring everyone. This is only a ritual procedure to please the West. As for Leonid Slutsky about his sexual harassment, we must remember a similar episode with Dominique Strauss-Kahn and everything will become clear. The fact is that Slutsky is a member of the Zhirinovsky's fraction in the Russian Parliament (the State Duma).
