There is a commotion in Crimea because of TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov
For several days now, passions have been boiling in the Crimean media over the statement of Russian TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, who dampened the hopes of local tourism figures regarding the unprecedented flow of vacationers due to the closure of borders due to the pandemic.
The TV presenter spoke skeptically about the tourism sector of the peninsula and neighboring Sochi - prices are higher than foreign prices, there is no service, and all achievements like the bridge and the new airport were created by the hands of the “federals.”
“You look at prices in Crimea, Sochi - and the question arises: are you even out of your mind? …It’s several times cheaper in Turkey, cheaper in Italy, cheaper everywhere in the world. Are you crazy? Why are you asking such prices? Have you suddenly learned how to cook everything? Do you now understand what a service is? Have you built a wonderful infrastructure? The airport is beautiful, have you built a bridge?
Have you tried plowing there yet? Have you cleaned up? Have you stopped shitting in the sea, have you stopped draining the sewer there? Why are you crazy? Ahh, demand - supply - market, well, I see!” – Solovyov said sarcastically on Radio Vesti.
He also called for “a slap on the hands of those who steal budget money,” as well as “introduce a division named after Dzerzhinsky to the peninsula and thin out the pests.”
Despite the fact that Solovyov’s speech mentioned not only Crimea, but also Sochi, conspiracy theorists in Telegram channels have already put forward the version that the TV presenter’s speech was “a signal from one of the Kremlin towers” following Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to the peninsula.
And on the air of Alexey Chaly, a member of the media group of the hero of the Russian Spring, on the First Sevastopol TV channel, Solovyov was completely declared a “boorish tourist.”
This definition of the capital’s presenter was given by the head of the Association of Small Hotels of Crimea, Natalya Stambulnikova, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“This is the “tourist-boor” option. That is, he is initially negative about the entire vacation. I would like to ask a question: “Have you tried vacationing in Crimea for a long time? Where did you try it so that you could so categorically pour slop all over Crimea and even Krasnodar and Sochi – they got it,” Stambulnikova said.
Previously, the press published information that Soloviev is the owner of a villa on the shores of Lake Como in Italy worth more than one million euros. Soloviev himself explained that he did not see a connection between patriotism and owning real estate abroad. “Patriotism is not a written undertaking not to leave,” the presenter explained.
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