Seniorita, first of all I read two journalists (Werner and Vaitsekhovskaya) who're always very critical of Piseev and Co. Here's an essay of Vaitskekhovskaya's on Piseev I translated some time back -
http://ptichkafs.livejournal.com/44329.htm, it goes a bit into Verner's relationship with Piseev as well. The thing is, though, that they don't have that much trust in Anton's abilities either. They seemed to think that someone like Ovchinnikov (a very serious candidate) could've been great, but they also think that the president now will become the scape goat after Sochi, so no one honestly wanting to do good by Russian fs would put their heads into that noose.
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Some more bits from Vaitsekhovskaya’s blog (not verbatim):
The conference came up with new rules. Everyone could familiarize themselves with it [the day before the voting], but, for example, Anton Sikhuralidze didn’t deem that necessary. Or perhaps he had no time. Then he announced, “Unfortunately, we only found out about the rules this morning…”
As to Gritschuk, she came to Moscow with an advisor (though the advisor introduced herself as a “speaker”). Playing the role of this advisor was Gritschuk’s own aunt, living in Germany, who told me that Oksana had successful experience as a coach, choreographer, manager and leader, all acquired in America, and that they were therefore confident of their victory. Oksana was disqualified because according to the rules, a private individual cannot nominate themselves. Only an organization that’s part of FFKR can do this. It was said that she didn’t get a chance to finish speaking about her program. As someone removed from Russian reality, Gritschuk didn’t understand the concept of being “applauded away”. She honestly thought everyone was applauding her program. It was sad.
hwell:
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