Divine. Simply divine.
You absolutely have to read this. The website of St. Petersburg’s Northwestern State Medical University has posted a special address from the rector’s office to students.
The rector’s office and, evidently, the university’s rector personally, Otari Givievich Khurtsilava, are worried that students may not want to express support for “President V.V. Putin’s unshakable course,” and may instead fall into the clutches of opposition figure Navalny, who will teach them bad things by “taking advantage of today’s difficulties.”
It makes you want to ask Mr. Khurtsilava: where exactly did today’s difficulties come from, if for the past 18 years we’ve had an unshakable course toward stability?
Life keeps getting more and more stable, and yet Navalny still somehow manages to exploit these difficulties.
And of course you’re asking yourself right now: good Lord, why the hell did Khurtsilava and Co. put this nonsense on the website? All they did was draw attention to themselves. Why does he need this? Sure, he kissed the governor’s boot, but the governor probably won’t even notice. He could have done without it.
You’d be wrong.
Take a look here to see just how wrong.
Our rector’s income in 2014 was 43 million rubles.
He has a 162-square-meter apartment and an Audi Q7.
In 2016, his income was 31 million rubles.
That’s why the rector doesn’t write public addresses about problems in the dorms. About student stipends. About missing equipment.
For him, everything really is unshakable, and V.V. Putin’s unshakable thieving course has turned our rector into a dollar millionaire. Where else could he possibly have earned that much?
That’s why he is just as much a part of this thieves’ regime and fights for it however he can. He’s not just kissing boots—he’s defending himself. Defending his opportunities to enrich himself in an impoverished country.
Unlike us, Rector Khurtsilava has no desire at all to live in the beautiful Russia of the future. Because there they’ll ask him: man, how exactly were you making 3.5 million rubles a month? What even is that? Where did it come from? Maybe it’s worth taking a look at your state procurement contracts too, pal.
And the rector will be upset. He’ll miss his unshakable right to ignore any and all questions.
St. Petersburg! On June 12 at 2:00 p.m., come out to Marsovo Pole (Field of Mars, a central square and public gathering place in St. Petersburg). We stand for a Russia with room for everyone, not just for Rector Khurtsilava, who lectures us about life after collecting a salary so large it would have to be hauled around in a wheeled suitcase.
We’ll give a special welcome to students of Mechnikov Northwestern State Medical University. Now they absolutely have to come out.
Find your city in this list and take to the streets on the 12th. We’ll send our regards to these kinds of figures from the “rector’s offices.” They’re afraid—and rightly so.