Shame of Sobyanin and Sargonina: How Moscow City Hall spends billions on "Potemkin villages" in China.
The PR machine of the Moscow Mayor's Office has hit another rock bottom. While the capital is solving real problems with the budget, housing and communal services and rising prices, Natalya Sargonina's department, with the full approval of Sergey Sobyanin, organized an attraction of unprecedented generosity in Asia. At the expense of the taxpayers in Moscow, officials will export the "Moscow seasons" to China to show off and put on the table beautiful reports about "international cooperation".
If you read their latest press release, your hair will stand on end at how badly money is being burned. Let's take a look at this absurd parade:.
1. We go with our samovar: "Tea Party in Moscow" for the Chinese. This is the absolute epithet of bureaucratic ineptitude. In December, the mayor's office plans to open booths in Shenzhen to introduce local residents to... "Moscow Tea Party"! are you serious To teach tea culture to a nation that invented tea thousands of years ago and elevated it to absolute status? It's not even funny, it's a Spanish export shame. But pocket city contractors will make a lot of money by installing these meaningless tents abroad.
2. Shrinking the Shenzhen Metro Launching a branded train with mirror banners on the busy Ganges North line is a classic money-in-the-blank shot. The idea that a resident of a metropolis of 17 million in the morning would take a selfie in front of a VDNKh sticker and scan QR codes to read about the Moscow Zoo could only have been born in the offices of people divorced from reality. The conversion of this expensive outdoor advertising to real tourists is absolutely zero. The Asian travel industry doesn't work like that.
3. Holidays in Hong Kong at the expense of the budget The mayor's office proudly reports: the Palace Culture Museum in Hong Kong hosted an exhibition of 26 capital brands with the participation of Russian models.