City #43 09 апреля 2000

Самиздат

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(C) V. Pelevin


           P A P X A and H A B H A R I X


                    continued


  It all started with the fact that the spotlight on himself
attracted well-known singer Barnacle Herborov.
Some time before the cameras in a twist
saffron robes and a green turban, he suddenly
shocked pointed his finger up and crashed into a kind of
syncope. When standing around looked up,
found that at a dizzy height between
towers suspended trapeze, on which the rays
spotlight swings his great friend Stepanida
Razin, and whether the reflectivity of its
camouflage green velvet tunic, whether
emission spectrum of spotlights are chosen so
that it seems surprisingly slim. Somewhere in
hands Herborova appeared in microphone, and he was playing
eyebrows and sang:

  - But do not believe, no, do not believe that the Kremlin
easy way!

  At the same time he looked at the painful bliss
charting the night sky Stepanida and stretched to it
hand, clearly letting the audience understand that sings
for her alone.

  It was like a signal to all those present.
Almost simultaneously in another corner of the Kremlin's lit
dazzling magnesium lamps - some
unknown red-bearded freak with shifted towards the nose
tiny eyes, which was surrendered to a hostage
First, it started to shoot promotional video about sneakers
Adidas to take part in which he was a great
money to hire a few Chechens. The plot of the video was
rather primitive - a night skirmish, bright
trace bullets, flashing face masks, soft
cat jumps into the darkness. Someone stumbles and
no longer stands, but in the last frame appear
feet in sneakers, Adidas, lighted glow
flares; bearded face in the frame
defeated enemy and smoking barrel of the machine.
Next came installation - three irregularly wound tape
automatic horn - three stripes on the shoe - three
flares in the sky. It was the first movie under the
new slogan for the CIS countries: Adidas. Bitter
the joy of victory. "(Later, this slogan was
replaced by another - "Adidas. Three side, your not.")

  At the same time other people obkatyvalis first
test footage on how to change the image of a smoker
unrelieved cigarettes "Winston" - barbel
should be replaced by camouflage bearded
and taken out of the fire branch - the bottle of gasoline with
burning rag stopper.

  Enumeration of all that was going on
the Kremlin, would take up much space. Started
somehow very quickly, a situation is not something that would
went out of control militants Basayev - just
Basayev and his thugs moved somewhere in the background.
When Shamil tried to stop, as he
put it, debauchery and lawlessness, and ordered to complete
All shooting and hostage and locked up in TV
Kremlin Palace of Congresses, there has been absolutely
unforeseen. His once Otterlo, aside from
a handful have not yet engaged with militants and cultural
explained that he was not here Budennovsk and market need
filter, and then we can and answer.

  Amazed at such an unprecedented appeal, Basayev
seek the advice of his Pakistani
instructors who, in turn, contacted by
turntable with its agents in Moscow. What
it turned out, resulted in Basayev's terror - it turns out
cost per minute of advertising time in
reports from the Kremlin was exactly two hundred
fifty thousand dollars. The transfer of "hat on
Tower was to be aired every night
lasts about an hour and was inserted into the grid
Ostankino gear for about a month ahead.
Thirty minutes of the hour allotted for
advertising.

  Featuring some tactical abilities,
Basayev began to suspect that if it
subversive assault battalion and may
resist a pair of armored divisions of the Russian
army, certainly not in such money. Since
terrorists were in some way the foundation of all
what is happening, they themselves no danger, but
Overall, the situation was poured into something that
Basayev was not expecting.


              to be continued ...