Since a lot of people get annoyed when I keep posting my interviews to my little LiveJournal blog (fair enough — I’d be annoyed too by a guy who gives this many interviews), I decided to stockpile them and then post them in batches. So all the comments saying "go* get a job already!"* can be collected in one place. Here are two clips from Radio Svoboda (Radio Liberty) Hosted by Danila Galperovich. Questions were asked by Gregory White, chief correspondent of the very American newspaper "Stone Wall Journal," and Olga Romanova from Forbes. Romanova, whose husband is in prison on fabricated charges, cheerfully taunted me before and after the program with "advice for a beginner inmate": "Alexei, you’re definitely going to prison. So you’d better buy sneakers with Velcro and no arch supports now. A tracksuit without laces, elastic, or zippers." and that sort of thing. And here’s the broadcast from the day before yesterday with Yury Pronko pronkou , **the very same person thanks to whom the meme "United Russia is the party of crooks and thieves" was born.
At 10:30 you can watch a very funny and instructive fail of mine.
When asked the simple question, "What do you think of Putin?" I open my mouth and can’t say a thing. Just wave my hands around.
At that moment I realized I needed to say something very clear and precise, but my thoughts suddenly turned into cheerful little birds flying off in all directions.
In a real debate, they would have smeared me in an even layer all over the TV studio.
Moral: don’t assume you’re such a pro that you don’t need to prepare answers to simple questions.
And of course, I set a record by saying "without any doubt" several thousand times during the broadcast.
If someone invented a device that let listeners remotely shock a guest every time he said "without any doubt," then, without any doubt, it would be a very useful device.
Today at 9 p.m. I’ll be on Echo of Moscow on the Sorokina-Kobaladze program (those are two different people).
Tomorrow, from 8 to 9 a.m., I’ll be on "Silver Rain."
And then I’ll finally get some work done.
Ha ha ha... work... what kind of fool would work if you can give interviews around the clock