A Worker Was Prevented From Asking Putin An Uncomfortable Question

At the plant in Magnitogorsk, the head of the Kremlin made a show-off.

Workers at Russia's Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) were instructed before their meeting with Vladimir Putin the previous day on what questions they could ask Vladimir Putin, according to a report by Kremlin pool journalist Andrey Kolesnikov. One of the workers wanted to ask the Kremlin chief about the Central Bank's high key rate but was not allowed to do so, writes The Agency.

Before Putin arrived, "the lady in charge of them" approached the workers, Kolesnikov describes. The woman asked those in the workshop, "What are we going to ask, what ideas?" The first worker replied, "I would ask about the key rate!".

"No, what about the key rate? Why? After all, the answer is obvious!...," Kolesnikov quotes the supervisor's reply. The worker, having heard this answer, "sighed depressed", the journalist describes.

Another girl in the workshop said that she would like to ask Putin "how he likes our city". But this question was not allowed to be asked: "Vladimir Vladimirovich has already been here. Besides, I know, this question already wanted to ask another person... Further!", - replied the person in charge.

The question was agreed only by a young man who said he wanted to ask Putin how he had fun as a child, describes the journalist. "Here. A beautiful question! Wonderful!...," the woman in charge responded to the suggestion.

When asked by Kolesnikov himself if the workers wanted to ask Putin about Donald Trump's statement about possible secondary sanctions against Russia, one worker replied, "That's right, and that, I agree, is the most interesting thing. But do we have the right to raise the pressure to the president?".

The journalist also described how the workers rehearsed their meeting with Putin: they lined up and chorally said, "Hello, Vladimir Vladimirovich," and were required to be "more assertive." The worker, who was going to invite the president to the 100th anniversary of Magnitogorsk, was asked to be "more cheerful and cheerful" and to wink at Putin.

As a result, according to a transcript on the Kremlin's website, Putin was asked about impressions of the city, high car prices, the prospects for metallurgy, the prospects for sambo to become an Olympic sport and what entertainment the president remembered from his childhood, as well as being asked to support the expansion of the city's airport and to issue benefits to young families before the birth of children.

The Central Bank's high key rate has sharply increased the cost of borrowed money. As a result, enterprises have been forced to curtail business development, and citizens have been deprived of the opportunity to buy apartments and cars on credit. This is the price that citizens and businesses are paying for the war that has fueled inflation. The rejection of the worker's question indicates a reluctance to draw additional attention to this topic.

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