Одно из моих любимых развлечений - это читать зарубежную прессу после каких-нибудь громких событий, произошедших в России. Список изданий, из которых выбирается победитель, уже давно сложился. В этом году в номинации "Самая ангажированная и пропагандистски ориентированная статья" им стал, с большим отрывом от ближайших конкурентов, Вашингтон пост. Геббельс нервно курит в сторонке.
П. С. Не думаю, что есть смысл все это переводить, если только по запросам. Журналист явно подошел к делу основательно и статья была почти готова уже за несколько месяцев до начала Олимпиады. Некоторые обороты достаточно функционального английского языка доставят истинное наслаждение гурманам. Приятного чтения!
П. С. Не думаю, что есть смысл все это переводить, если только по запросам. Журналист явно подошел к делу основательно и статья была почти готова уже за несколько месяцев до начала Олимпиады. Некоторые обороты достаточно функционального английского языка доставят истинное наслаждение гурманам. Приятного чтения!
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In Sochi, hotel complaints fall into chasm between global spectacle and under-served population By Sally Jenkins 4014,12 E-mail the writer Photos: View Photo Gallery: The Olympics officially get underway in Sochi SOCHI. Russia — COLUMN | The grim and the gorgeous coexist side by side at the Sochi Olympics. Anyone who thinks that what’s happening here is comparable to the excesses of other sports events in other places simply hasn’t seen or felt these Winter Games firsthand. The S51 billion colossus is an act of destructive grandiosity that threatens to make us all queasily complidt in crime yet simultaneously awed and intimidated. The most expensive Olympics in history are partly a Potemkin village, an elaborate facade built to impress foreign passersby and to enhance the image of a small, odd. chill-faced man who likes to pose menacingly shirtless in order to seem much taller than he actually is. It’s also a heist: Somewhere along the line, according to Vladimir Putin’s critics, as much S30 billion disappeared, and it didn’t go into the hotels, where the carpets look like scraps from an old office, unless it went into the surveillance that gives new meaning to the phrase bedbugs. Mainly it seems to have gone into creating scale, breathtaking but needlessly immense structures with columns that loom hundreds of feet high, dwarfing individuals into specks. And that’s exactly the point, isn’t it, to make the ordinary citizen quail with helplessness at the power of the “new” Russian state. It’s the most troubling, complicated Olympics of our time, full of suppression, apprehension, active borderland insurgencies, gay scapegoating, Internet hacking. And farce, which peaked before the Opening Ceremonies when IOC President and arch-enabler Thomas Bach said there were no problems here, only “a couple of hiccups.” Video: Fans have started to arrive for the Opening Ceremonies of the 2014 Winter Olympics, which got underway Friday in the Russian resort of Sochi. International visitors were again outnumbered by Russian fans. Associated Press But it’s most complicated for Russians, of course. Sochi, despite the naked mud and gravel, is a heart-seizing place, and part of its appeal is that historically it’s a resort for average Russians yet also the site of dachas for dictators. You find yourself yearning hard for Russian national renewal even as you root against Putin and the small group of no billionaire accomplices who have hijacked its wealth. Fact: In a country vast with promise, the average salary in Russia is S900 per month — and then-standard of living has actually risen. What you see in Sochi is hardly representative of how they live. For a glimpse of that, you had to go elsewhere: Start in Moscow and take the train south, a 27-hour journey. “Open your heart and your eyes and ears,” suggested Joy Womack, 19, who since age 15 has been a Muscovite ballerina and in 2012 became the first American to dance with the Bolshoi Ballet before she left it late last year over an internal bribery and corruption scandal. To one young Russian, Konstantin Yablotskiy, a gay competitive figure skater who is conducting a courageous public campaign against Russia’s anti-homosexual law', the Sochi Games are taking place in a bubble so closed and devoid of reality they are virtually “in a prison.” The view' from the train — a new high-speed double-decker that should shame Amtrak — shows a different, uninsulated Russia. m Are the Winter Olympics for the rich? See how income matters ■ •••••• • ••• w Grey cinder-block apartments alternate with dilapidated cottages, corrugated tin roofs and outhouses. Images flash by. Thickets of white birch trees and broad frozen rivers, black branches like lead pencil sketches. A World War II tank, surrounded by a small fence in the middle of nowhere. A young couple walking on a path atop a knoll, she in furs, standing and watching the train. Rail crossings littered by husks of old trains with cracked windows and huge pallets of cinder blocks and timber Clusters of workmen warming themselves around fires of fat logs, \lllagei in snowy' monochrome save for glints of magnificently colorful churches, robins-egg blue cathedrals topped by gold onion domes. Dark spikes of pines and parchment-tinted grasses jutting through hard-crusted snow, white fog that makes the sky indistinguishable from the ground so there is no visible horizon. To people who five in this Russia, foreign sportswriters who complain about missing door handles and cold water showers must sound impossibly naive and spoiled. What did we expect in a country' of such harsh climate and history'? Poorly built new hotels are unimaginably soft compared to a place like Akhshtyr, a blighted village along the new Olympic-commissioned highway to the Caucasus that, according to Human Rights Watch, has been plundered for its limestone by Olympic builders, leaving it with no drinkable waiter and some of its homes in collapse. Photos: View Photo Gallery: The animate that have been hanging out near hotels and Olympic venues are being taken into custody or exterminated. By the end of the train ride, the visitor understands a little better the great somber notes of Russian culture celebrated in the Opening Ceremonies, Stravinsky’s deep shaded sharps and minors, Rachmaninoffs powerful piano showers, Pushkin’s poetry in which cold bronze horses come alive and blue ice steams. (And there w'as something appropriate about how when five snowflakes of lights were supposed to turn into the Olympic rings, one of them malfunctioned.) As the high-speed train draws closer to Sochi, the sweet center of this rotten event, the contrasts grow greater, broken concrete next to soaring opulence. The Black Sea coast is stunning in its stony, ruined way, the Caucasus foothills plunging right down into the water like rock slides into a sea of blue-green silk. Cheap resorts with swim pavilions jut next to new-glass and vaulting steel arches that mimic the white-peaked massifs off in the distance. The hills are studded with cypress, palms and eucalyptus — and the occasional camouflaged security commando. In Putin’s Potemkin Sochi Olympics, he announces a “ring of steel” security, yet liquids pass through X-rays unnoticed. Massive architecture and the perfectly orchestrated vivid light shows of the Opening Ceremonies are accompanied by flimsy building and inefficiency, while the Olympic staff appears under orders to pay excessive attention to ludicrously small exterior details. Street sweepers broom the grass for wrappers, and bathroom attendants fill out clipboards meticulously, though the lavatories won’t flush paper. Tree-canopied walks vie with gravel pits. Putin’s Olympics is preposterously outsized, but by the end of the Opening Ceremonies, it was hard to call it artificial. These Games at once overreach and super-deliver: The torch relay traveled to the North Pole and into outer space, a journey so epic it obscured the fact it frequently-guttered out. It extinguished no fewer than 44 times, and at one point an aide had to relight it with a cigarette lighter. Yet when it finally flamed at the Olympic Park, the spectacle was frighteningly large. And that effect is precisely what he is after. Photos: View Photo Gallery: The Olympic flame, which by tradition was lit in Greece, is on a four-month trip to Sochi. Russia, the site of the 2014 Winter Games. As the relay progressed across the Russian Far East an Olympic torch took a swim in a vast Siberian lake. For more by Sally Jenkins, visit washingtonpost.com/jenkins
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