Repulsion towards Putin

A total of 3000 thousand angry comments, joking follow-up articles with writers pretending to be a Russian President, and counting. All this skirmish and public revolt is a result of Putin's recent "Plea for Caution" from Russia, warning Americans about Syria and possible U.S. troops deployment despite the U.N. recommendations. There is only one thing missing from the discussion of PR tactics employed by the President Putin, namely, the assessment of him as a spokesperson for the cause of the U.S. non-involvement.

As President Putin said: "There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal." Conversely, one could say that with regard to the effectiveness of one's skills as a spokesperson for a great cause, not all CEOs are created equal. And the frustrations of Putin's target audience with him as a messenger of peace represent a living proof of that. Probably Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela would have performed so much better in this role. But not Vladimir Putin.

The Cinema: Bringing change into the corrupt world

In response to the problem of staggering bureaucracy throughout executive, legal, and judicial power, Russian film makers came forward with Detochki (2013). The stories told by this Russian movie could have happened in any part of the world. In a society, where adults have "forgotten" their obligations toward the vulnerable (small children, victims of sexual assault), the children became the carriers of change. They are the ones killing the criminals who previously got punished with impunity by the corrupt system. Examples abound, if the traditional ways of fighting crimes do not bring criminals to justice, other means are sought and found by the children. In a world that has no trust in legislation, police or government, where victims of sexual assault are no longer protected from those who raped them, either because of the right of the rapist to "initiate proceedings in family court"  or because of the rapists' been simultaneously the crime investigators, the children are the only ones who are not afraid to fight for justice. Similarly to Kids (1995) (and not only because the main characters in both movies are children), Detochki (2013) is a wakeup call and the beginning of revolution. It stands for revolt on the part of the thinking public, the public who for one reason or another, wants to act, but has to restrain its actions, because of the desire to maintain some kind of order within the society.