Evening Three minnow.
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17 DECEMBER 2009
Kara-Murza (ml)
Post-election night from 19 to 20 December 1999, SFOR activists met in the capital's restaurant "Three minnow. Cozy basement on Zubovsky Boulevard, subdued lighting, flickering in the twilight aquariums with strange Overseas fish, colorful Christmas lights. Going there, we already knew that the electoral bloc "Union of Right Forces, a hastily knocked together from" Demvybora "Gaydar," Young Russia "Nemtsov," New Forces "Kiriyenko, and several other organizations, won a brilliant victory unexpected. All day in the campaign headquarters were faxed data exit polls predicting a sure passage of ATP in the State Duma.
Renewal gradually increased, in the hall appeared more and more people. In the far corner near the table with appetizers waiting patiently for the start banquet Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. At a table crowded with bottles of "Ararat" and "Soviet" and dishes with fish salad, walking Director Rosinformtsentra Mikhail Margelov. A member of RAO UES Gozman shook everyone's hand comer, I congratulate with the victory. Yegor Gaidar, has led to a banquet his teenage daughter (I think, Masha). There were VIP-guests: the head of the Kremlin administration Alexander Voloshin, a daughter and a presidential adviser, Tatyana Dyachenko, Boris Yeltsin's grandson, Jr.. Mounted on the wall, widescreen (then it was new) TV shows NTV - TV program Yevgeny Kiselyov "Results". The first results of the vote count confirmed: the Union of Right Forces - one of the leaders of the election-99, the Communists seem to lose a parliamentary majority. In second place came set up by Boris Berezovsky bloc "Unity". In the far corner of the hall, sitting beside a Christmas tree, trying to drown the sound of forks clinking of glasses soloists "Time Machine".
The winners of the night - Sergei Kiriyenko, Irina Hakamada, Yegor Gaidar, Anatoly Chubais - that appeared in the hall of the "Three minnows, then suddenly disappeared and then appeared on the screen at NTV Kiseleva, then came back. Only the leaders of the ATP, who that evening was not in the "Three minnow" and in general in Moscow - Boris Nemtsov, to await the results in Nizhny Novgorod, where he had that day won the election by single-mandate constituency.
It was about midnight. Music somehow suddenly stopped, and everyone turned to the stairs, which descended into the basement restaurant, Anatoly Chubais. Beside him was short, balding man in a gray knitted sweater. Gathered politely parted, a man in a sweater was followed by Chubais at the head table, raised a glass of wine and made a short congratulatory speech. "We did it ... We showed them that we can ... For our common victory ... "
The next day, the quiet man raised in the "Three gudgeon" glass of "total victory", will deliver a toast to Joseph Stalin (of those present at the meeting of leaders of Duma factions refused to drink for that only Grigory Yavlinsky) and open up a plaque KGB chairman Yuri Andropov . A year later, President Vladimir Putin has already returns Stalinist country tune of the hymn. "Traitors vile rotten rock /You menacingly smetana his way ..."
Participants of the night's banquet at the Three minnow "Sergei Kiriyenko, and Anatoly Chubais, has successfully fit into the new" vertical ". Sitting at the table next Irina Hakamada, and missed the banquet, Boris Nemtsov will be in the ranks of the irreconcilable opposition. Selected by the ATP deputy Sergei Yushenkov and Vladimir Golovlyov die at the hands of hired assassins.
But all this - ahead. Meanwhile festive night was drawing to a close. Outside it was snowing, the white flakes swirled over the Garden Ring and settled on the pavement. "Ride" rushed through the deserted streets of Moscow. The night was completely black, as happens before dawn, and only the bright neon lit windows swept past the house. City slept. Prior to the change of political eras in Russia remained for 11 days.
The author - a member of the Federal Political Council of the Solidarity movement, in December 1999 - an activist of the party Democratic Choice of Russia »
Photos from the archives of the author. First published in
17 DECEMBER 2009
Kara-Murza (ml)
Post-election night from 19 to 20 December 1999, SFOR activists met in the capital's restaurant "Three minnow. Cozy basement on Zubovsky Boulevard, subdued lighting, flickering in the twilight aquariums with strange Overseas fish, colorful Christmas lights. Going there, we already knew that the electoral bloc "Union of Right Forces, a hastily knocked together from" Demvybora "Gaydar," Young Russia "Nemtsov," New Forces "Kiriyenko, and several other organizations, won a brilliant victory unexpected. All day in the campaign headquarters were faxed data exit polls predicting a sure passage of ATP in the State Duma.
Renewal gradually increased, in the hall appeared more and more people. In the far corner near the table with appetizers waiting patiently for the start banquet Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. At a table crowded with bottles of "Ararat" and "Soviet" and dishes with fish salad, walking Director Rosinformtsentra Mikhail Margelov. A member of RAO UES Gozman shook everyone's hand comer, I congratulate with the victory. Yegor Gaidar, has led to a banquet his teenage daughter (I think, Masha). There were VIP-guests: the head of the Kremlin administration Alexander Voloshin, a daughter and a presidential adviser, Tatyana Dyachenko, Boris Yeltsin's grandson, Jr.. Mounted on the wall, widescreen (then it was new) TV shows NTV - TV program Yevgeny Kiselyov "Results". The first results of the vote count confirmed: the Union of Right Forces - one of the leaders of the election-99, the Communists seem to lose a parliamentary majority. In second place came set up by Boris Berezovsky bloc "Unity". In the far corner of the hall, sitting beside a Christmas tree, trying to drown the sound of forks clinking of glasses soloists "Time Machine".
The winners of the night - Sergei Kiriyenko, Irina Hakamada, Yegor Gaidar, Anatoly Chubais - that appeared in the hall of the "Three minnows, then suddenly disappeared and then appeared on the screen at NTV Kiseleva, then came back. Only the leaders of the ATP, who that evening was not in the "Three minnow" and in general in Moscow - Boris Nemtsov, to await the results in Nizhny Novgorod, where he had that day won the election by single-mandate constituency.
It was about midnight. Music somehow suddenly stopped, and everyone turned to the stairs, which descended into the basement restaurant, Anatoly Chubais. Beside him was short, balding man in a gray knitted sweater. Gathered politely parted, a man in a sweater was followed by Chubais at the head table, raised a glass of wine and made a short congratulatory speech. "We did it ... We showed them that we can ... For our common victory ... "
The next day, the quiet man raised in the "Three gudgeon" glass of "total victory", will deliver a toast to Joseph Stalin (of those present at the meeting of leaders of Duma factions refused to drink for that only Grigory Yavlinsky) and open up a plaque KGB chairman Yuri Andropov . A year later, President Vladimir Putin has already returns Stalinist country tune of the hymn. "Traitors vile rotten rock /You menacingly smetana his way ..."
Participants of the night's banquet at the Three minnow "Sergei Kiriyenko, and Anatoly Chubais, has successfully fit into the new" vertical ". Sitting at the table next Irina Hakamada, and missed the banquet, Boris Nemtsov will be in the ranks of the irreconcilable opposition. Selected by the ATP deputy Sergei Yushenkov and Vladimir Golovlyov die at the hands of hired assassins.
But all this - ahead. Meanwhile festive night was drawing to a close. Outside it was snowing, the white flakes swirled over the Garden Ring and settled on the pavement. "Ride" rushed through the deserted streets of Moscow. The night was completely black, as happens before dawn, and only the bright neon lit windows swept past the house. City slept. Prior to the change of political eras in Russia remained for 11 days.
The author - a member of the Federal Political Council of the Solidarity movement, in December 1999 - an activist of the party Democratic Choice of Russia »
Photos from the archives of the author. First published in
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