After the Prigozhin uprising, Russia maintains its everyday life of ignorance and conformity. The Kremlin is busy, people say: “Everything is as usual.”
People pull out their cell phones and scream, everyone as loud as they can. No one pays much attention to the booming music to the brightly colored trick fountains in the fountain next door. Anyway, everyone just wants to see him. Smiling and touching him: his strongman, his leader. “Leader” is what many Russians call their president. “Take a picture, Mom,” yells one teenager. “Do!” The “mommy” does. And Russia’s state TV has your picture of Vladimir Putin kissing a teenager on the cheek.
“You are great, Fátima, our country needs such magnificent descendants”, commented the users of the campaign on social networks. The worship of the leader they submit to here doesn’t bother them. Fátima, in turn, tells the state channel reporter how she waited seven hours in Derbent, Dagestan, where the president had left at the last minute. “Just for a picture with him. This is so awesome.”
Putin, the darling of the nation, supported by the people who applaud and celebrate him. was there something Cracks in the system? face loss? In the days since the brief uprising of Yevgeny Prigozhin, who claims to have marched into Moscow with his brutal Wagner Group paramilitaries, the Kremlin is doing its best to turn the president’s weakness into strength. As if a Russian construction worker simply painted over a rusty bench in the spring. The more crumbly the old layer, the more fresh paint it has and the bench looks like new. At least from afar.