А надо ли? Виагра в предсмертной агонии наврядли поможет...

"Но надо, чтобы это всё было пролонгировано, чтобы это продолжалось и в следующие годы, а может быть, и десятилетия."

M.N.: А надо ли? Виагра в предсмертной агонии наврядли поможет... Но главное: а надо ли?

Заодно и поговорите...

1/3 Фото пресс-службы Президента РоссииВо время посещения австрийского Тирольского дома в Красной Поляне. С легендарным горнолыжником Карлом Шранцем.9 февраля 2014 года 
"Красный Тиролец"... А спинка-то - прямая как доска, застывшая... Болит, болит, вижу. А ты - расслабся, спортом займись, а лучше всего - сексом; хоть гейским, хоть анти-гейским, что больше нравится... Поможет... Если, конечно, всё ещё можешь. Виагру прими, или в баньку сходи с Януковичем - он большой и добрый. Заодно и поговорите. 

2/3 Фото пресс-службы Президента РоссииНа командных соревнованиях по фигурному катанию во Дворце зимнего спорта «Айсберг». Слева от Президента – Министр спорта Виталий Мутко, справа – президент Международного союза конькобежцев Оттавио Чинкванта.9 февраля 2014 года
Роджэр, Роджэр: мессидж понял. Сам такой. Читай Биона, лечи элиту, а то - сожрут...

Putin as a voyeur: "Приём от имени Президента России в честь гостей Олимпиады"

Приём от имени Президента России в честь гостей Олимпиады

7 февраля 2014 года  Сочи 

Mike Nova comments:

This is the most remarkable piece of videotape.  Watch carefully their facial expressions and body language: tension, anxiety and anger are quite palpable. It looks like almost everyone worries that they will be secretly taped by the surveillance cameras in their bathrooms, sitting on their toilets and in their beds having sex. Most likely Sochi hotels will have plenty of vacant rooms very soon. 

Happy Olympic Games, Mr. Putin and the esteemed guests! 

What goes around comes around. 

By the way, it seems to me that this is Mr. Putin's signature political behavior and his style of work as a KGB agent: to play a Peeping Tom and secretly  watch people; he is a devout voyeur, this is a part of his personal psychopathology. 

See more: 

This is exactly what paved Putin's path to power: 

prosecutor-general Yuri Skuratov affair - Google Search 

THE SKURATOV AFFAIR

Kremlin Sex, Lies And Videotape 

And that's how one of the Putin's henchmen and lieutenants and his fellow KGB (specifically, military intelligence) man, V. Surkov tried to harass and blackmail the dissidents and oppositional writers just a few years ago, most likely on some instructions, direct or learned by example from his master (whom Surkov considers to "have been sent by God"): 

Surkov sex videotapes - Google Search

Surkov videotapes - Google Search 

Vladislav Surkov - Google Search

Opposition Leader Calls for Inquest into Online Sex Videos
27 April 2010
The Moscow Times 

Surkov was recently returned by Putin to power structures, apparently to continue his dirty jobs (and I guess I have some idea whom he includes as one of his targets).  

Russia's Putin brings 'grey cardinal' Surkov back to Kremlin - Reuters 

Russian top official seemingly admitted to spying on hotel guests in their bathrooms!

Russian top official seemingly admitted to spying on hotel guests in their bathrooms! - Google Search

Deputy Prime Minister Lets Slip Comment About Surveillance in Sochi Hotel Rooms

Friday February 7th, 2014 at 9:38 AM

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An attempt to defend Russia from a wave of reports about faulty infrastructure in Sochi by pointing the finger at guests backfired when a top official seemingly admitted to spying on hotel guests in their bathrooms.

"We have surveillance video from the hotels that shows people turn on the shower, direct the nozzle at the wall and then leave the room for the whole day," Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said during a press conference on Thursday, seemingly unaware the statement would provoke more questions on how the footage was obtained in the first place.

When a reporter tried to ask a follow-up question, an aide led Kozak away, saying they were going to tour the Olympic media center, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Later on Thursday a spokesman for Kozak said that there is no surveillance in guests' hotel rooms, but that video cameras had been used while construction and cleaning activities were ongoing, and that his boss must have been referring to footage obtained at that time.

The spokesman did not explain how, if that were true, the footage Kozak referred to could have featured guests.

In the run up to the Winter Olympics, which officially starts on Feb. 7, Western journalists in the Black Sea resort have reported a lack of running warm water, doorknobs, collapsing curtains and stray dogs among the problems they encountered upon arrival.

Kozak, who was in charge of preparations for the Games, said he had no "claims against Western or Russian journalists who are doing their jobs," but added the Olympic project had been a great success, considering the facilities were built on an "open field."

"We've put 100,000 guests in rooms and only got 103 registered complaints and every one of those is being taken care of," Kozak said.

"There are some imperfections, but victors don't have to justify themselves," he said in an interview with television channel Rossia 24 on Thursday. 

A Spotlight on Mr. Putin’s Russia - NYTimes Editorial

A Spotlight on Mr. Putin’s Russia

Friday February 7th, 2014 at 10:04 AM

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The Olympic Games that open in Sochi, Russia, on Friday are intended to be the fulfillment of President Vladimir Putin’s quest for prestige and power on the world stage. But the reality of Mr. Putin and the Russia he leads conflicts starkly with Olympic ideals and fundamental human rights. There is no way to ignore the dark side — the soul-crushing repression, the cruel new antigay and blasphemy laws and the corrupt legal system in which political dissidents are sentenced to lengthy terms on false charges.

Maria Alyokhina, 25, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 24, of Pussy Riot, the Russian punk band, are determined that the glossy celebration of the Olympics will not whitewash the reality of Mr. Putin’s Russia, which they know from experience. Charged with “hooliganism,” they were incarcerated for 21 months for performing an anti-Putin song on the altar of a Moscow cathedral that cast the Russian Orthodox Church as a tool of the state.

Such political protest is not tolerated in a nation that is a long way from a democracy. In December, the women were freed under a new amnesty law that was an attempt by Mr. Putin to soften his authoritarian image before the Olympics.

But if he thought releasing the two women from prison would silence them, he miscalculated badly. On Wednesday, they told The Times’s editorial board that their imprisonment, and the international support it rallied to their cause, had emboldened them. They plan to keep criticizing Mr. Putin — they were hilarious on Stephen Colbert’s show the night before — and working for prison and judicial reform. Their resolve and strength of character are inspiring.

There is a lot of work to do, beginning with the cases of eight people who are now on trial, charged with mass disorder at a protest at Bolotnaya Square in Moscow in 2012 on the eve of Mr. Putin’s third inauguration as president. Amnesty International, which sponsored the Pussy Riot visit to New York, where they appeared at a benefit concert on Wednesday, has called for dropping the charges of incitement to riot against the Bolotnaya demonstrators. The Pussy Riot activists dismissed the charges against those demonstrators as baseless and more evidence of “Putin’s way of getting revenge” on his critics.

A Russian prosecutor has demanded prison terms of five and six years for the eight protesters, with the verdict expected a few days before the Olympics end in late February. Ms. Alyokhina and Ms. Tolokonnikova have called for a boycott of the Olympics, or other protests, to pressure the government into freeing the defendants. The most important thing is that the world speak out now, while Mr. Putin is at the center of attention and presumably cares what it thinks.

More broadly, the Russian penal system is in desperate need of reform. The activists described conditions in which prisoners are cowed into “obedient slaves,” forced to work up to 20 hours a day, with food that is little better than refuse. Those who are considered troublemakers can be forced to stand outdoors for hours, regardless of the weather; prohibited from using the bathroom; or beaten.

Their observations are reinforced by the State Department’s 2012 human rights report, which said that limited access to health care, food shortages, abuse by guards and inmates, inadequate sanitation and overcrowding were common in Russian prisons, and that in some the conditions can be life threatening.

The Olympics cannot but put a spotlight on the host country, and despite all efforts to create a more pleasant image of his state, Mr. Putin is facing a growing protest. On Wednesday, more than 200 prominent international authors, including Günter Grass, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Jonathan Franzen, published a letter denouncing the “chokehold” they said the new antigay and blasphemy laws place on freedom of expression.

Mr. Putin has unconstrained power to put anyone associated with Pussy Riot and thousands of other political activists in prison. But these women and those who share their commitment to freedom and justice are unlikely to be silenced, and they offer Russia a much better future.