Medvedev money but you hold on. “There is no money, but you hold on”: how Medvedev inspired Slepakov. Taxes? No money

No money, but you hold on- Dmitry Medvedev’s phrase, which he said at a meeting with Crimean pensioners. The meme illustrates life in Russia and is used to make jokes about power.

Origin

On May 23, 2016, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attended a meeting with pensioners in Crimea. Residents began to complain to him about small pensions, to which Medvedev replied:

The phrase was quickly circulated on the Internet and became a meme. In December 2016, she entered the TOP 10 fastest growing Google queries in the “Memes of the Year” category.

Medvedev’s quote went to the people, it was used in advertising, and comedian Semyon Slepakov even wrote the song “Appeal to the People” based on it.

In the Russian dubbing of the cartoon “Zveropoy” there is a phrase “There is no money, but you hold on,” about which Vedomosti wrote that “adults in the audience laugh, and children will understand what it’s about when they grow up.”

Medvedev’s words were used by Tele2 to advertise its services in the slogan “Competitors, but you hang in there!” Have a good mood and good health." In early June, the slogan was removed without explanation.

In May 2018, journalists from Novaya Gazeta, whose question was provoked by another meme from Dmitry Medvedev. Anna Buyanova lives in a village near Feodosia and sells fruits, vegetables and chickens at the market. The woman grows all this on a plot near her house. Anna said that she has 30 years of work experience, but her pension is minimal - just over 8 thousand rubles.

Meaning

The expression “There is no money, but you hold on” can be used as a universal illustration of life in Russia. There is no money for healthcare, roads, pensions, and so on. The fact that the Prime Minister said this for many is a demonstration of the cynicism of the authorities and their indifference to the problems of people.

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Dmitry Medvedev is no stranger to becoming the object of jokes and anecdotes from Internet users. And his last statement in Crimea in response to complaints from pensioners that pensions are not indexed:

“There’s just no money right now. Well, hang in there, all the best, good mood and health!”

instantly turned into a meme and went viral on social networks. We offer you the best examples of folk art. If you also came across good videos or pictures, or came up with something yourself, put them in the “suggested news” in our group in contact with.

Great GIF that blew up the Internet:

The picture below is beautiful too. Considering the location, a better word would be "brace yourself":

They say bank employees joked like this:

After Medvedev’s statement, in one of the cafes the price of pizza increased sharply for some categories of the population:

This is how words can become a document:

But in this kind of money:

And here is how it is now proposed to pay for utilities:

Interpretations on the topic of international politics:

When asked for a miracle:

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The song of the Russian showman Semyon Slepakov, “Appeal to the People,” published on June 6, received more than two million views on the Internet in just one day. The singer's inspiration was the head of the Russian government, Dmitry Medvedev. Two weeks ago, when asked by Crimean pensioners about the indexation of pensions, Medvedev replied that there was no money now, but called on people to “hold on” and wished them “good mood and health.”

“The country hasn’t seen such a rise for many years, it’s something to be proud of, but there’s no money,” Slepakov parodies government reports on economic success. The showman does not forget to mention how Russian officials live in a crisis: “Luxury yachts and planes are waiting for us. The Maldives, Monte Carlo, London and Phuket are waiting. We would take you, we just don’t have the money.”

In addition to this song, thousands of other jokes about Dmitry Medvedev appeared on the RuNet: posts, tweets and photoshoots. DW traced how the internet trend developed.

Taxes? No money

Myself video of Medvedev communicating with Crimean pensioners hit the Internet on May 23 and immediately began to gain viral popularity, and two weeks later, it received almost three and a half million views. Runet users immediately responded to him with thousands of jokes.

The most popular of them are proposals to write the phrase “there is no money, but you are holding on” in a tax return or housing and communal services payment slip. This phrase was also formalized as official government decree. Some users suggested answering banks that are waiting for loan payments: “There is no money, but you are holding on.”

Army and television: there is money

Then Runet users decided to remember what the Russian budget money was spent on instead of indexing pensions. Favorite examples were the army and state television.

Businessman and media investor Alexander Vinokurov recalled that the loss of the VGTRK holding in 2014 amounted to 21 billion rubles. Television, on which money was spent from the budget, will help Russians “hold on,” Vinokurov is sure.

Propaganda posters

Dmitry Medvedev also inspired users to joke about politics. The phrase “there is no money, but you hold on” was turned into fake campaign slogans, including on the topic of the upcoming State Duma elections in the fall.

They were awarded to Medvedev himself, a number of deputies and the United Russia party. Some jokes are dedicated to President Vladimir Putin. Medvedev should learn from Putin how to answer questions about pension indexation. The President would have answered several times longer and in such a way that nothing would have been clear, they are sure on the RuNet.

“There is no money, but you hold on” and Shuvalov’s Rolls-Royce

Thanks to its popularity on the Internet, Vladimir Putin even had to comment on Medvedev’s meme. The President believes that the phrase " no money, but you hold on“taken out of context. In response, some users published a transcript of the meeting with pensioners and noted that Medvedev’s words were conveyed quite clearly.

Almost simultaneously with the appearance of the meme, an investigation of opposition politician Alexei Navalny was published. He claims that First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov bought a Rolls-Royce Phantom EWB worth 40 million rubles through front companies. This was done after the announcement of sanctions and a sharp deterioration in the state of the Russian economy and the state budget. As a result, Runet users instantly connected this event with Medvedev’s call to “hold on.”

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TOP 10 MEMES OF RUSSIAN POLITICIANS

It is no longer possible to accept the words of high-ranking Russian leaders. And this is not the author’s personal opinion. Already ordinary Russians, who were included in the lists of “80%”, “86%”, “89%”, openly say and write that if earlier, behind the outright nonsense, flat jokes and jokes of politicians, some insidious plan of the Kremlin towers was imagined - “a cunning plan "for Russia's victory throughout the world. Now it is already more clearly noticeable - unprofessionalism and incompetence, promiscuity, disrespect for one’s people and simply a lie.

We decided to give several examples of high-level idle chatter, combining them into a kind of “hit parade”. These phrases spread not only across all Internet networks in Russia, but also became the subject of ridicule for our country in foreign media.

THERE IS NO MONEY, BUT YOU HOLD ON!

First place, of course, behind the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. This was the answer to question from Crimeans about low songs and high prices:

“There’s just no money right now. If we find the money, we'll do the indexing. You hang in here, all the best, good mood and health to you.”



In general, teaching politicians not to say the word “no” to their voters is one of the primary tasks of political strategists and image makers. This is kind of the basics. But apparently, the situation in the state is so terrifying, and the scale and uncontrollability of theft is so great, that the head of government has ignored these rules and is no longer shy in his choice of expressions.

Remember the joke about the three envelopes? The old leader transfers the affairs to the new one and gives three envelopes with parting instructions to open one at a time when it becomes especially difficult. The first such moment came - I opened the first envelope - the inscription: “Put it all on me.” The second moment has arrived: “Promise.” The third one happened: “Prepare three envelopes.” Blaming the USSR is already futile, they don’t believe it. There is nothing to promise; everyone sees and feels the decline in their own well-being. Perhaps it’s time for the authorities to remember about the third envelope.

Now to the question of money. Is it really possible that in the political technology headquarters near the Kremlin there was not a single more or less qualified personnel who would explain to their customers that when Putin promises to build Disneyland for 10 billion, people should not show off the lack of funds. When Russia is waging a strange war in Syria worth tens of billions of rubles, you cannot explain to the people that there is no money. People will not believe the lack of appropriations against the backdrop of billions for Skolkovo (which - quite likely - could be taken away), hundreds of billions for additional capitalization of banks and brave Russians from the economic forum in St. Petersburg.

The climax of the mockery of the people of Russia was the statement of the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov: “This is a government issue; our government has the broadest powers. I don’t think it would be correct to comment on the decisions of the government, and especially the head of the cabinet.”. Everything has been turned upside down, the government is completely unaccountable to the head of state, the Duma! And complete lack of accountability to the people who elected him! But as usual - the explanation is that the king is good, these are the boyars who are bad...

IT'S FUNNY BUT POPULAR

Second place in the hit parade we give to Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Igor Shuvalov, who during his visit to Kazan said: “We were shown apartments of 20 square meters, it seems ridiculous, but people buy such housing and it is very popular and there is a niche for such housing on the market... Now it is not the mere availability of square meters that is important, but how they can be managed with them. You can create something absolutely incomprehensible out of 60 square meters, or you can create a comfortable modern apartment.”



This is the same liberal Shuvalov who, just over a year ago, at the economic forum in Davos, noted with a verbal “pearl” that in order for Vladimir Putin to remain president, people are ready to endure any hardships. But does Shuvalov himself suffer deprivation? It turns out not!

According to Igor Shuvalov’s declaration, he has four apartments in Russia ranging from 73.8 to 175.7 square meters. In addition, he rents a house in Austria (with an area of ​​1,480 square meters), and also rents an apartment in the UK, which has an area of ​​483 square meters. However, independent experts have long stated that the “rent” is fictitious, and Shuvalov rents a castle in Austria, an apartment in London and a villa in Dubai from himself.

British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke about his determination to put an end to laundering corrupt money through the purchase of London real estate a year ago. Speaking in Singapore, he said the UK should not become "a haven for ill-gotten funds from around the world". This was a hint, including to Russian high ranks.

YOU NEED TO EAT LESS

Third place. Sverdlovsk deputy from the United Russia party Ilya Gaffner advised Russians to eat less if they do not have enough money for food.

"It's not so scary. If you don’t have enough money, you need to remember that we are all Russians, Russian people, we have gone through hunger and cold... You just need to think about your own health: eat less, for example.”, advised Gaffner in a comment to the Yekaterinburg TV channel during a raid on stores to check prices.

According to statistics, 17.4 percent of Russians (24 million) live below the poverty line, that is, they have an income below 5,083 rubles per person. More than a third of the Russian population have unstable, non-standard, episodic, often unofficial work. At the same time, the cost of a minimum set of food products in the country on average is 2,225.67 rubles, and sometimes you have to pay more than five thousand rubles for an apartment and utilities.

In Russia, there is practically already a hidden hunger; Russians, especially children, do not receive a large amount of necessary vitamins and microelements. In 2016, the salary of State Duma deputies, according to some media reports, increased from approximately 400 thousand rubles to 800 thousand rubles.

TO BE HONESTLY, I DON'T KNOW MY SALARY

Fourth place. These the words belong to the President Russian Federation to Vladimir Putin: “I don’t know Sechin’s salary. To be honest, I don’t know exactly what mine is - they bring it, I fold it. Employees of large companies receive substantial money. But their salaries should be compared not with the average earnings in the country, but with the salaries of their foreign colleagues.”.

It must be admitted that there were legends about Igor Sechin’s fabulous salary long before Putin’s ever-memorable conference. That’s why the journalist asked the president a completely reasonable question. Here’s what they wrote about Sechin’s earnings in 2014: “As the head of the company, starting in 2012, this charming man assigned himself an immodest salary of 50 million dollars a year, which is 5 million rubles a day. Yes, yes, you heard right, 5 million a day!” In 2014, at the ruble exchange rate two times lower than today!

And one more detail: in July 2013, the President of Russia obliged to disclose information about the income of certain categories of Russians. In particular, the decree established that state corporations and state-owned companies created on the basis of federal laws are required to post information about income, expenses, property and property-related obligations of their managers on their official websites, as well as provide this data to the all-Russian media.

WILL SEND ALL CORDS

Fifth place. Another Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin never ceases to amaze with his clowning before the reading public. Over the past year he has spoken a lot. The latest “hit” - he supported the idea of ​​sending the leader of the Leningrad group Sergei Shnurov to the next Eurovision in Ukraine.

“We’ll send Shnurov to the next Eurovision. He won’t win, but he’ll send them all somewhere.”, Rogozin wrote on Twitter.

Sergei Shnurov responded to Dmitry Rogozin’s idea with his barb: “We’ve survived. It turns out that out of 140 million citizens, only one can even just tell you to f***.”

MANNERHEIM - “PERSONALITY” IN RUSSIAN HISTORY

Sixth place behind the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, as well as the head of the administration Sergei Ivanov with a high-ranking retinue. Everyone talked and posed enough.

In particular, commenting on the participation of the head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation S. Ivanov at the opening in St. Petersburg of a memorial plaque mounted on the facade of the Military Academy of Logistics Academy in honor of Hitler’s ally Karl Mannerheim, D. Peskov said: “Indeed, Mannerheim’s personality still causes heated debate, but we can absolutely say that this is an extraordinary personality, a personality related to our history, and a personality whose role will be studied by historians for a long time.”

At this rate, the authorities will soon proclaim Vlasov, Bandera, Shukhevych as extraordinary personalities, and then “glory to the heroes!” - just a stone's throw away. Just a copy of the Ukrainian events with which propaganda persistently frightened the Russians.

IT WILL COME

Seventh place. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that Russia is already doing everything to end the conflict in Ukraine, but we must not forget that the conflict is internal to Ukraine.

“Everything that Russia can do to end the conflict, it is already doing: de facto helping the economy of Ukraine, providing supplies of coal, electricity, and so on, and sending strings of humanitarian convoys to people in trouble in the southeast.”, Peskov said in an interview.

A position that does not stand up to criticism. No one in Russia has ever had the idea of ​​calling the conflicts in Transnistria, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia intra-Moldovan or intra-Georgian. From the point of view of Ukraine and the Kremlin’s international partners, Donbass (its part is ORDILO) is an occupied territory. To prove this argument, any Western functionary will give an example of the exchange of Ukrainian war criminal Savchenko for Russian servicemen Erofeev and Aleksandrov. That is, Russia’s participation in the conflict is obvious.

Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg openly spoke about the events in Ukraine: “No, it was necessary to lead to a coup d’etat, with casualties, to cause bloody events, a civil war, to frighten the Russian-speaking population in the south-east of Ukraine and Crimea. What is all this for? And after that, after we were forced, simply forced, to take measures to protect certain groups of the population, we began to further unwind this spiral, escalate it.”

No one in the West has removed the issue of Crimea from the agenda, which is one of the Kremlin’s pain points, for which the negotiations are dragging on, and in fact, such human sacrifices are being made for the Russian population of Donbass. There is no way Moscow will be able to resolve the issue of Crimea in isolation from the rest of Novorossiya. At least in the near future. But who does Peskov want to convince with mantras that Russia is in no way involved in the conflict? Yourself or what?

WE NEED AMERICA

Eighth place. No one doubted before that the United States not only actively interfered in the internal politics of the Russian Federation, but also pursued its own policies through its fifth column in power. However, speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the President of the Russian Federation actually admitted this to the entire honest public:

“America is a great power, today, probably, the only superpower. We accept this, we want and are ready to work with the United States... The world needs such a powerful country as the United States, and we need it. But we don’t need them to constantly interfere in our affairs, tell us how to live, or prevent Europe from building relations with us.”, - Putin emphasized.

These words in the blogosphere were called a recognition of the president and his team’s own capitulation, and that the Americans do not just interfere in Russian politics, but do it all the time! Our people have already observed something similar during the reign of Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader who led the country to collapse.

WE DID NOT REFUSE DIALOGUE WITH Kyiv

Ninth place. Once again, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was amazed when answering the question of why Russia recognized the referendum in Crimea, but did not recognize it in the DPR and LPR during the “straight line” in Komsomolskaya Pravda.

“The referendum in Crimea was held under what conditions are known. But following the results of the referendum in Donbass, they did not refuse dialogue with Kiev. The result was the package of Minsk agreements. They never refused to talk to Kiev.", said Lavrov.

To be fair, it must be said that Moscow also did not refuse dialogue with Berlin, which resulted not in any kind of agreement - an interim and impracticable protocol, but in the surrender of Germany in May 1945.

And did Crimea refuse dialogue with Kiev? No. Simply due to its transition to the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation, the Kremlin continued the conversation on behalf of Crimea. That's the whole difference.

By the way, on behalf of the DPR and LPR, Moscow also quite freely conducts a dialogue with both Kiev and Western partners, which puts Sergei Viktorovich in an awkward position from which he, it seems, has no intention of getting out. It's not even a position or position, it's a pose. After all, how could it be said that the conversation between Donbass and Kiev ultimately led to the package of Minsk agreements, if its points were initially written on the famous knee of the Russian president? Paradox!

KEEP IT UP!

Tenth place. Vice Speaker of the State Duma of Russia, the son of politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Igor Lebedev, believes that there is nothing criminal in the fight between Russian fans and English fans at Euro 2016 in France, he talks about this

During Dmitry Medvedev's working trip to Crimea, a pensioner asked him a question about the indexation of pensions. A video of the Prime Minister's response went viral on the Internet.

Dmitry Medvedev on one of the streets of Feodosia after visiting the Ivan Aivazovsky art gallery as part of a working trip to Crimea. Photo: Dmitry Astakhov/TASS

The decision on additional indexation of pensions in 2016 will be made after July 1 based on the results of the first half of the year, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets told RIA Novosti. She emphasized that the government's social bloc will insist on indexation based on actual inflation.

Earlier, a video appeared on the Internet where Dmitry Medvedev, speaking about pensions with a resident of Feodosia, stated that the state has no money. An assistant hands papers to the Prime Minister, surrounded by security. Suddenly, a question comes from the crowd surrounding the security ring. A woman behind the scenes asks the head of government about when pension indexation will happen in Crimea. "No money left. You stay here, all the best to you,” Dmitry Medvedev concluded his answer.

Internet users actively reacted to the video. “Have you seen pensions in Belgorod?” — one of them wrote in the comments.

The minimum pension in Russia is 6 thousand rubles. This year, Russians' pensions were increased by only 4%. The government's social bloc insisted on additional indexation. The day before, the chairman of the State Duma Budget Committee, Andrei Makarov, told RBC that the issue of additional indexation of pensions would be considered by the new composition of the lower chamber in October. A decision on it will be made even later, other sources noted.

Is it true that the situation with pensions is special on the peninsula? Crimean blogger Alexander Gorny answered this question from Business FM:

Alexander Gorny blogger “As for pensioners in Crimea, indeed, their situation has worsened a little. This is due to the devaluation of the ruble, and the equivalent, if we take it in dollars, of course, has decreased. Food prices in Crimea are higher than on the mainland by about 10%, somewhere by 20%, somewhere by 30%. In the Ukrainian years, of course, the level of pension provision was much lower: if we take dollar recalculation, maybe about 100 dollars, maybe 150 dollars. When Crimea passed to Russia, both pensioners and civil servants benefited from this situation, whose salaries increased several times. But taking into account the devaluation that is happening in the country and inflation, the standard of living is falling not only in Crimea, but throughout Russia. And this remark to Dmitry Medvedev is really a cry from the heart not only of Crimean, but also of all Russian pensioners. Of course, pensioners do not fully understand that the situation is similar throughout Russia. Pensioners, like civil servants, benefited financially from this, but when they go to the market and realize that this money is also not enough, when they returned to Russia, they hoped that life would still become a little better.”

Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Crimea Dmitry Polonsky in an interview with Govorit Moskva radio said that there are no problems with pensions in the republic. “We are no different from other regions. There is always dissatisfaction among citizens; they always want salaries and pensions to be higher, prices to be lower. There are some objective difficulties. But there is no special Crimean problem regarding particularly low Crimean pensions,” Polonsky said. The former speaker of the Supreme Council of Crimea, first secretary of the Crimean republican branch of the Communists of Russia party, Leonid Grach, does not agree with the official’s position:

Leonid Grach first secretary of the Crimean republican branch of the party "Communists of Russia"“Tariffs for everything have also increased; taxes have been introduced for all these re-registrations of one’s property and re-conclusion of contracts with the gas industry. Even to this day, a lot of Crimeans stand in queues, and they pay for this to re-register meters or any other indicators. Today, in terms of food pricing, we are not inferior to Moscow, and everything that has already accumulated is socially very significant, because a person is in a good mood when there is bread, when there is some kind of penny. Yesterday Dmitry Medvedev visited the Aivazovsky art gallery, walked about 300 meters to the Green Museum, and people stood, this was not a meeting, and people immediately went on the attack, as they say, that it is impossible to live on 8 thousand rubles. I would say that such a “shot” of a social nature has already taken place. I think that Dmitry Medvedev's answer is quite clumsy, dismissive. It was necessary to change the tone of the conversation, and not get away with a remark, especially since he didn’t even see the people, he was walking surrounded by a retinue consisting of guards and officials. And this added to the heat in Feodosia, because in the city there is still dead industrial production, factories are not working. Everyone expected that Medvedev’s arrival in Feodosia would be devoted to this topic.”

The Kremlin refused to comment on Medvedev's statements. Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the issue of pensions relates to the government, which has the broadest powers, so it is incorrect to comment on the work of the head of the Cabinet of Ministers.

 

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