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VIP Parade 2004
Kommersant has a New Year tradition of rating elite Russians. Many of those recognized as the pride of the nation pass from rating to rating without any trouble, although from time to time the new celebrities appearing in the rating overshadow the old ones. As usually, the All Russia Center for Public Opinion Research helped us prepare the rating, which has been published four years in a row. The main question the public had to answer was “Which Russians do you consider to be elite?
Where does the Elite Come From?
The Great Kremlin Palace. The State Duma. The solemn institution with a white-blue-red flag waving over it. The Institute or rather the Fund, whose only goal is to keep people thrown off the political Olimpus from boredom at old age. The opposition meeting. The prison cell. The head office of the company, extracting viscid black liquid or light blue gas from the Russian soil. The concert hall, where one can hear music or laughter (another option is a kiosk with a large assortment of pirated disks and cassettes). The typing machine (or computer, used for the same purpose). The Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The tennis court. The football field. The hockey stadium. The boxer ring. The workshop of a military factory, where the main invention of the 20th century had been sketched. And the TV, of course. It shows good old movies of the Soviet times and broadcasts news (both for stupid, smart, and even ordinary viewers). It gives out juicers, vacuum cleaners and automobiles to those who can guess letters in a word, standing for a kind of wind instrument played by ancient Phoenicians. It also shows how C-students from a drama school scratch each other, trying to imitate a love conflict.
We decided to add one more rating to the traditional year-end rating – a millennium rating. It is to reveal the most popular Russian ruler from the time of Vladimir I to Vladimir Putin.
All the Article in Russian as of Jan. 10, 2005
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