Pavel Astakhov well. Astakhov: The phrase was rudely torn out of a conversation with the girls who survived on Syamozero. Peskov called Astakhov’s question “an awkward figure of speech”

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After the report about the conversation was circulated by the media, the official was once again subjected to a barrage of criticism. Some users found his remark to be at least strange and inappropriate.

In turn, Astakhov blamed the journalists for everything: they, they say, took his words out of context. In addition, he called his question a “psychological trick.”

“The phrase, rudely taken from a general, extremely complex psychologically and morally conversation with the victim girls, does not convey the nature of this conversation at all,” he wrote in his Instagram.

“There are psychological techniques that help open up a frightened child and give him the opportunity to speak out, throw out his emotions, which is extremely necessary for such children. It’s sad that investigators still haven’t talked to these girls and psychologists haven’t worked thoroughly. But we talked a lot.” thoroughly and frankly. And a lot was revealed,” Astakhov wrote.

In the comments to the post, some users agreed with him, others admitted that the ombudsman himself had “set himself up.” Some also reminded the ombudsman of another of his famous phrases about “shrunken women.” Then the ombudsman also claimed that his words were taken out of context, but he still had to apologize for them.

After another awkward statement made by Astakhov while communicating with children injured in Karelia, Internet users drew an analogy with the recent statement of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who, during a visit to Crimea, dropped the phrase that became famous overnight: “There’s just no money now. You stay here, all you need is good, good mood and health!

Peskov called Astakhov’s question “an awkward figure of speech”

The incident with Astakhov was commented on in the Kremlin. They suggested “not to exaggerate” the situation, since “there is no talk of any sarcasm” on the part of the ombudsman.

“This is probably an awkward figure of speech (on Astakhov’s part), nothing more,” said Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov. He added that "of course, it is emotionally difficult to communicate with children who experienced this tragedy." “So yes, we saw this on the Internet, I would not join those who are now presenting this as deliberate sarcasm on the part of Astakhov. It is obvious and obvious that this is not so,” Peskov said.

"Astakhovisms"

Let us remind you that in recent months this is not the first time that Pavel Astakhov has become an object of sarcasm and censure from Internet users. At the beginning of July, bloggers were outraged by a poll on the admissibility of tying up children, organized by Astakhov on his Twitter.

On International Children's Day, some activists staged protests against the ombudsman, calling for him to resign. In St. Petersburg, with the help of cardboard posters, Astakhov was reminded of his most striking mistakes. It was written on them: “The West is for my children, we will leave orphans without families” (in memory of the law prohibiting the adoption of Russian children from orphanages by US citizens); “You give birth here in the hospital, and my wife in Nice”; “It’s not too early for her to forcefully marry with Ramzan’s blessing”; There was also a poster against sex education: “No sex education - we’ll put everyone in jail for this.”

The tragedy at the health camp "Park Hotel Syamozero" occurred about a week ago, on June 18. Children on boats were caught in a storm on Syamozero in the Pryazha region of Karelia, two boats capsized and sank. 13 children drowned and their bodies were discovered. The search for another child is still ongoing in water and on land. The Ministry of Emergency Situations believes that the missing schoolboy could have escaped and got lost in the forest. Moreover, the list of dead children published the day after the tragedy included 14 names.

In connection with the tragedy, a criminal case was opened under Part 3 of Art. 238 (“Performance of work or provision of services that does not meet safety requirements, resulting in the death of two or more persons through negligence”) and Article 293 (“Negligence”) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

This week, the Petrozavodsk City Court took camp director Elena Reshetova into custody for two months and released 19-year-old instructor Valery Krupoderschikov from arrest. Earlier, five employees of the Syamozero Park Hotel were detained.

On September 9, by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Commissioner for Children's Rights Pavel Astakhov was dismissed at his own request. He was appointed to the position in 2009 and since then has repeatedly found himself at the center of scandals related to his statements. The loudest quotes from Mr. Astakhov are in the Kommersant collection.

“Well, how did you swim?”- Pavel Astakhov asked with a smile the children who survived the tragedy in Karelia (on June 18, due to a storm on Lake Syamozero, 13 children died, 1 is listed as missing).

Later in his Instagram the children's ombudsman wrote that the phrase was “grossly taken out of context and does not at all convey the nature of the conversation with the victim girls.”

“There are psychological techniques that help open up a frightened child and give him the opportunity to speak out and express his emotions, which is extremely necessary for such children. The recommendation of professional psychologists is to talk in the most positive way possible,” wrote Mr. Astakhov.

In April, Pavel Astakhov responded to an incident at the Barnaul Zoo, where a tiger grabbed a 13-year-old girl by the legs and maimed her. He wrote that for the child "Darwin Award is crying"(awarded for the stupidest death). Mr. Astakhov said that, most likely, two girls sneaked into the zoo without permission in the evening and they and their parents should be punished.

Too expensive a price to pay for completely “unchildish pranks.” To tease a tiger is to risk your life. Stupidity and hooliganism.
The Darwin Award is crying!

— Pavel Astakhov (@RFdeti) April 11, 2016

The children's ombudsman also became famous for his quote about early puberty. “Let's not be prudes. There are places where women are already wrinkled at 27 years old and by our standards they are under 50.”, he said, justifying the wedding of a 17-year-old girl and the head of the police department in Chechnya.

After Russia’s relations with Turkey deteriorated, Pavel Astakhov noted that it would still not be possible to prohibit Russian women from marrying Turks. “Love is evil - you will love a Turk”- said the Ombudsman.

“I could work as anything, even protecting low-growing bushes from being cut down.”, - Pavel Astakhov characterizes himself. So far he has been able to defend any government initiatives.

Mr. Astakhov was one of the most ardent supporters of the “anti-orphan law”, which banned foreign adoption. “There can be no prospects for foreign adoption in Russia. This humiliates our country and puts it on par with third world countries,” he said.

“Family is the most important thing on this sinful earth”, - admits Mr. Astakhov. Unlike orphans, going abroad is not contraindicated for Pavel Astakhov’s family: back in 2009, the magazine “7 Days” published material about Mr. Astakhov, his wife and children. Posing with his family in one of the villas on the Cote d'Azur, Pavel Astakhov said that his youngest son was born in Nice and that he was very pleased with France.

Photo: Valery Melnikov, Kommersant

“Anton graduated from school with a medal and, secretly from us, sent documents to Oxford College“,” Pavel Astakhov said about his son. “And he, a 17-year-old boy, went to study in England. Don’t sit back and squander daddy’s money, but get a good education.”

“They ask me: when will you have sex education? I say: never", - the children's ombudsman believes that Russian children should learn about sexual relations from “Russian literature.” “The school should raise children to be chaste, in the spirit of understanding family values”, he thinks.

At the beginning of his career, the Children's Ombudsman proposed releasing convicted pedophiles on parole after they agreed to voluntary pharmacological castration. He later wrote in his

While the respectable public was indignant at the installation of the Mannerheim board in St. Petersburg, a fresh mockery was broadcast. This time from Pavel Astakhov.

While visiting children who survived the tragic campaign on Syamozero, the Commissioner for Children’s Rights under the President of Russia asked one of the girls:

The girl couldn’t find anything to answer.

Instead, one of the women in the ward answered: “Thank God, we survived.”

Well, what did Astakhov expect to hear in response?

“Thank you, Uncle Pasha, some liked it so much that they decided to stay” - so what?

However, he probably didn’t think at all that they could answer this question. And I also didn’t think about the tactfulness of the question itself. I just didn’t think that’s all. I decided to say something, chose a stock phrase from the dictionary and said it. And then, based on the reaction of those around me, I realized that I had said something wrong. Then I started thinking.

And this is very significant.

Here we often try to understand what certain statements by our politicians and the country’s leadership mean. And they don't mean anything. That is, they mean, but only that the figures who pronounce them do not think with their heads. Or they think, but only later. First they speak, and then they begin to think. Medvedev said just now: “There is no money, but you hang in there, good health, good luck.” What does this mean? Is there really no money? There is money. It’s just that Medvedev himself doesn’t know where they are, how many there are and when it will be possible to use this money to index pensions. But something needed to be answered. And so, the central processor of the biorobot model DAM, creaking slightly, broadcast the first phrase that was found in its dictionary - “no money.” And then the Prime Minister’s reflex triggered, which demanded that he somehow support, encourage the people, and say something life-affirming. We know the resulting phrase very well.

This is roughly how the president's brilliant economic revelation came about:

“Yesterday we were selling a dollar for 30 rubles, and today we are selling the same dollar for 45.”

However, this phrase is actually much deeper and more informative. It should be understood this way: by the word “we,” the president meant himself and his comrades in the oil and gas trough. And indeed, they receive dollars, not rubles, for exported oil and gas. And then they sell them to the Central Bank. Previously, they sold dollars received from exports to the Central Bank for 30 rubles, and then they began to sell them for 45. And for the last year and a half they have been selling them for 65 rubles. Profit!

What other brilliant answers do we know from the president and officials?

When asked what stripe we have now, black or white, the president answered: “gray.”

Brilliant!

It’s impossible to call a stripe white, but to call it black is dangerous, but what if it gets even worse? The central processor of the GDP model biorobot rummaged through the dictionary and chose the most appropriate answer, as it seemed to him: gray.

This is how we live with this gray stripe.

Moreover, our gray streak is primarily in our leadership, and the gray streak in politics and economics is a consequence of the gray streak in the country’s leadership.

There was also an excellent response from the president about what happened to the Kursk submarine:

"She drowned."

How did this answer come about? The President was either afraid to tell the truth, or was completely coded from the truth during his service in the KGB. And it was not possible to come up with any successful explanations for the incident that would allow one to evade an honest answer in a second. Therefore, the president revealed what everyone already knew - she drowned.

So clear is the stump that it has sunk. I was interested in the causes of drowning. I wondered why she drowned. And the president’s answer is the same as answering the question “why” with “it’s swaying.”

Another good phrase: “Poroshenko is the best chance for Ukraine.” Condemning the coup in Kyiv, carrying out an operation to return Crimea, citing the lack of legal authority in Ukraine, and then calling Poroshenko, who came to power as a result of the coup, the best chance and declaring support for the integrity of Ukraine - again brilliant. And, of course, it is worth remembering the statement that Russia will not allow anyone to do anything in the south-east of Ukraine. What did this statement mean? Never mind! The President was simply showing off. He puffed out his cheeks. He was bursting with self-importance and a sense of power after the triumphant return of Crimea to Russia. And the Olympics held at the same time. So he broadcast it. And the people in Donbass thought that someone would actually protect them.

By the way, the words about “the largest divided nation” are from approximately the same series. Although they were written to the president on a piece of paper and, in theory, they should have thought about it before writing. But apparently they didn’t think about it either.

The Kremlin wanted to somehow justify the return of Crimea - brightly, weightily, so that no one would have any doubt that this is exactly how it should have turned out and nothing else.

Justified. They announced the reunification of the largest divided nation. They just missed a small detail - that the largest divided nation in Crimea does not end there, that there are still Donbass, Kharkov, Odessa and other cities and regions.

And the people understood the words in such a way that it seemed that they would be reunited until the end. But there was no need to understand it that way. Because the president didn’t mean anything like that, he didn’t need anyone except Crimea, he just wanted to justify the return of Crimea somehow more seriously and nothing more. And the people went to hold rallies, build barricades, and then took up arms...

In general, our leadership has said a lot of things in recent years. You can’t remember everything.

True, sometimes there were statements on the verge of prophecy.For example, Chernomyrdin once said:“You and I will still live in such a way that our children will envy.”

And lately there has been a suspicion that this promise may come true. So sometimes our leaders say things that should be listened to. But this is rare for them.

More often than not, listening to our leadership is not worth it. Because our leaders simply don’t mean what they say. The result is either pretentious nonsense with a thoughtful expression on the face, in which some try to see signs of a cunning plan, or even mockery.

But if you believe the promises of our president and prime minister and make some decisions based on their words, then things may turn out completely bad. Donbass will not let you lie.

An adult, well-fed, well-groomed man, an excellent husband and father, who, in his own words, flies to the Cote d'Azur every weekend to “visit his family”, comes to the hospital to see children who accidentally survived not in Nice, but in a storm, in an icy lake , without the help of adults, with their complete, total, bestial irresponsibility.

He asks a child who survived hell a question: “How was your swim?”, and then, adjusting his cute medical robe, he expounds some incredible nonsense about how children need to be taught to survive in cold water.

The professional incompetence of such a speaker is obvious. It was obvious to me after accepting cannibalism. The question of who and why holds such a person in such a position in a country where things are not so great with children’s rights is an unanswered question. Rhetorical, that is, question...

You know, I recently visited Olga Romanova and her team at the Sitting Rus' Foundation. The story of Olya’s husband, who served several years in prison on false charges, is known to everyone who wanted to know it. One of the foundation’s employees told me how she visited her husband in the Mordovian camps for seven years. People have seen the nightmare of Russian prisons in their immediate vicinity, and now their lives are dedicated to ensuring that imprisonment in Russia is, firstly, legal, and secondly, it is a deprivation of liberty, and not a slow, painful death by a court verdict.

Many charities that help treat children from cancer employ mothers and fathers who have lost their loved ones and have made a firm decision: “No one else will die the way mine died!”

People who find themselves confined to a wheelchair realize how scary the world is for those who are not very young, not very dexterous, not too strong, and they fight for the right of disabled people to breathe the same air that you breathe.

Moms and dads of children with cerebral palsy and Down syndrome unite to protect their own.

Parents of children with autism in general, it seems to me, are creating an alternative healthcare system for their sons and daughters.

We too often look around and face trouble only when it becomes ours.

The author of my beloved Harry Potter, JK Rowling, gave a famous speech at the graduation ceremony at Harvard University in 2008. I make sure that all my students read and listen to this excellent text about the benefits of failure and defeat, as well as the gift of imagination and empathy, one of the great gifts of the Holy Spirit.

“Imagination,” says Rowling, “is not only the unique human ability to invent what does not exist, not only the source of all innovations and inventions. This ability opens up the world and transforms it, giving us the power to empathize with people whose life experiences are different from ours.”

I have nothing to say to Astakhov.

What kind of “inclusion” can be used to bring back into human society someone who asks children who miraculously survived in cold water, “So, how was your swim?” - I don't know.

I want to say to all of us: let's try to cultivate imagination and compassion in our children. If we succeed, in twenty years these “what-you-swimmed” people will be treated by psychologists. If it doesn’t work out, woe to all of us.