Last week, another investigation of an opponent of the Russian government, Alexei Navalny, was published. The politician claims that he uncovered the corruption schemes of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. It turns out that Dmitry Anatolyevich is passionate about sneakers - by the way, he fell for them. Kyky decided to make a selection of what the Russian Prime Minister orders through proxies in case any of you need it.

Nike Air Max 95 No Sew

The Nike Air Max 95 No Sew in Medium Base Gray & White is a versatile shoe that's perfect for a run or a casual meeting with a business partner at your country estate somewhere in Vietnam. It will also be a pleasure to stroll along the Minsk sidewalks in this classic. The Nike Air Max 95 was released back in 1995, and since then it has gained popularity among fans. The average price of Nike Air Max 95 sneakers in Minsk is around 300 rubles, but we haven’t found anything exactly like Medvedev’s.

Nike Flyknit Max

These stylish, next-generation Nike beauties were first introduced in the Spring/Summer 2016 collection. The upper is made of unusual textiles using special Flyknit technology - a special weaving of threads that makes the material light, flexible and soft. These sneakers completely follow the contours of the foot. The sole of the Nike Air Max Flyknit model is made of foam and rubber, but its main advantage is the vacuum, thanks to which the shoe perfectly cushions the foot and can withstand even heavy loads. This model is not the cheapest and in Minsk costs about 500 rudders.

Nike Air Max Light Breathe

Another look at Nike Air Max. Laconic, elegant men's sneakers for summer and spring. Judging by the name itself, they are very light and, as they say, breathable. Another universal model, in which you can go both to the feast and to the world. For beauty and chic you will have to pay about 300 rubles in Minsk stores.

Onitsuka Tiger x-Caliber

These stylish Japanese sneakers cost about 250 rubles in Minsk. The multi-season model is made of artificial materials and is well suited for walkers. Pay attention to the colors of the models - this is not a white sole with a black top.

Adidas Consortium x UNDFTD x Neighborhood Micropacer

This is where the heavy premier artillery comes in: an exclusive edition of the Adidas Micropacer, created in collaboration with two famous representatives of streetwear culture - Undefeated from Los Angeles and the Japanese Neighborhood. These sneakers are released as part of the Consortium line, dedicated to the most important models of adidas. This model is a Limited Edition, so you are unlikely to be able to get it in Belarus, but in the normal world of online trading, such sneakers cost about $230.

Adidas x Raf Simons Formula One

Raf Simons is a name from “high fashion”. But fancy sneakers don't guarantee you'll look your best. Dmitry Anatolyevich likes to wear this “special edition” with a shirt and jeans, but we do not recommend this. These sneakers start at $300 on ebay.

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The physical growth of a person, as well as the volume of the brain, is far from an indicator of his abilities and capabilities. The trouble is that if a small woman, like Yanina Zheimo (known from the film “Cinderella”), is lovingly called “miniature,” literature and folk dialects do not have any respectful and affectionate names in store for a short man. The many offensive nicknames common in common parlance painfully offend men's pride.

Boy on the oval

Some time ago, the extinct anecdotal creativity enthusiastically exaggerated the topic: “What is the actual height of Putin and Medvedev?” The step behind the podium from which Dmitry Anatolyevich spoke was certainly outlined with a red oval line in documentary photographs and “photographs”.

Yes, it so happened that the first persons of the Russian state at the beginning of the 21st century are of short stature. So what? Little Thumb, known to everyone from an old fairy tale, was quite sharp and in terms of intelligence gave a head start to his tall brothers. It seems that if there had been even the slightest prospect of nanotechnology, he would have invented Skolkovo! So why study Medvedev’s height in cm, if you can evaluate his political weight, contribution to the promotion of national science, culture, improvement of citizens’ lives and many other, highly important parameters of a statesman?

"I've stood on the shoulders of giants"

Waves of acceleration

At the end of the last century, scientists started talking seriously about the phenomenon of teenage acceleration: boys and girls reached significantly greater heights than people in previous generations. Subsequent analysis of historical data allowed us to put forward a hypothesis: periods of “tallness” and “shortness” succeed each other throughout the entire development of mankind. Therefore, the one and a half meter tall leaders - and Charlemagne - did not seem so short compared to their mostly stocky contemporaries.

The growth of Medvedev (like Putin, a representative of the post-war generation) in the crowd of people looks small precisely against the background of younger accelerators. To neutralize this effect, reporters try to show Tandem most often together, or choose angles with enlarged figures of the President and Prime Minister, and make half-length portraits.

So who is taller?

It is difficult to determine how tall Putin and Medvedev are when they are next to each other. Frequent observation of reports leads to the conclusion: approximately equal.

Putin has a denser figure: the broad shoulders of an athlete, a low-set head, which, in comparison with the slender Medvedev (whose shoulder line is also lowered, and his head and neck are more elongated vertically), makes Vladimir Vladimirovich more proportionally built, and therefore visually high. In fact, Medvedev’s height, according to various sources, ranges from 162 to 172 cm (average 167 cm), Putin’s (officially recognized) height is 170 cm.

The different heights of shoe heels, combined with daily shrinkage of the spinal discs (up to 3 cm in any adult healthy man), give the effect of approximately equal height. It can be argued that Putin, on average, is only slightly superior (by 3-5 cm) to his “Tandem partner.” Moreover, both of them turn out to be low only against the background of the general acceleration of the people and the stereotypes of perception that have taken root in connection with this (for example, the height of A. S. Pushkin, traditionally considered small for us, was 164 cm).

Psychology of stunted people

Dmitry Medvedev's height is often cited as a reason for his too hasty approval of dubious "great" projects. These are, for example, ill-considered experiments with the country's time zones. Indeed, psychologists note the desire for self-affirmation at any cost as a characteristic feature of short men.

Slightly infantile facial expressions, modest civil gestures against the backdrop of the brutal equanimity of Putin, a confident career security official, reinforce the impression of some “frivolity” of Dmitry Anatolyevich.

However, Medvedev's growth, of course, cannot serve as a reason for any "uncontrollable tyranny." The latent “complexes” of the head of state, with a well-functioning decision-making structure, even if they are present, do not affect the results of the government. Most likely, the reason for the miscalculations is the mistakes of analysts, the suppression of real statistics, thoughtless bureaucracy on the ground, and, in the end, the eternal Russian “fools and roads.” The extent to which an emperor or president rises above his people is the very last factor determining our overall success.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation published an investigation about Dmitry Medvedev. According to Alexei Navalny and his entourage, the head of government owns “huge tracts of land in the most elite areas, manages yachts, apartments in old mansions, agricultural complexes and wineries in Russia and abroad.”

"He's not Dimon." FBK investigative film. VIDEO

The investigation “He’s Not Dimon to You” provides data from Rosreestr, extracts from various registers of legal entities, as well as media publications and posts on social networks. For easy navigation of the reader, the investigation is divided into chapters, there are auxiliary buttons, etc.

The real owner of the assets is almost impossible to trace, because, being registered in charitable foundations, they, in fact, do not belong to anyone. Medvedev’s property is managed by his friends, classmates and confidants,” -

emphasized in the investigation.

According to the anti-corruption official, Medvedev made his fortune from non-state funds. Thus, billionaire Alisher Usmanov donated a house and 4.3 hectares of land in the village of Znamenskoye not far from Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway to the Fund for Support of Socially Significant State Projects. It was valued at 5 billion rubles.

This fund [for support of socially significant government projects] has nothing to do with charity and does not conduct significant activities. The fund is managed by the same people as the Dar and Gradislava foundations, which own Medvedev’s residence in Ples and other personal properties of the Prime Minister,”

noted in the FBK investigation.

Another Dar fund is headed by Prime Minister Medvedev’s friend and classmate Ilya Eliseev. Navalny called him one of the closest to the politician. Eliseev owns the Mansurovo agricultural complex and other enterprises in the Kursk region.

A chapel was built on the site of a house that once belonged to Medvedev’s grandfather. The estate and tens of thousands of square meters of agricultural land are the property of Mansurovo, -

FBK found out.

A subsidiary of Dar owns a house on Rublevka, 20 hectares of land, which were previously owned by the presidential administration. They, according to FBK, were 200 times cheaper than the market value.

The former director of “Dar” and Eliseev’s student Philip Polyansky heads the company “Certum-Invest”, which acquired a historical mansion in St. Petersburg, transferred it to “Dar”, after which it was rebuilt into an elite building with 29 apartments.

The fund also learned about Eliseev’s Cyprus offshore, to which two sea yachts are registered. They were valued at $16 million. They are moored near the Milovka estate in Plyos, which is Medvedev’s residence, Navalny is sure. They are named "Photinia", which is the church analogue of the name Svetlana. This is the name of Dmitry Medvedev's wife.

In addition, a winery in Italian Tuscany is registered under the same offshore company. Sergei Strupnitsky became its manager - he previously worked as a director at another winery associated with the Prime Minister, the Anapa “Rocky Coast”.

Medvedev “got burned” on sneakers. It was through them that the Fund connected him and the manager, Vladimir Dyachenko. The foundation found orders for sneakers in Medvedev’s email account, hacked several years ago, specifically under his last name. “This person is involved in the daily management of the Rublev estate in Znamensky, received as a gift from Alisher Usmanov.”

But appreciate the scale of the prime minister's shopping. In three months, he ordered 73 T-shirts, 20 pairs of sneakers and 30 pairs of swimming trunks. Clothes and shoes were ordered only for one person - all the same size, same brands, same stores, and so on,” -

concluded in the investigation.

RBC has already received a comment from Dmitry Medvedev's press secretary Natalya Timakova. In her opinion, the investigation is pre-election in nature.

Navalny’s material is clearly pre-election in nature, as he himself says. It makes no sense to comment on the propaganda attacks of an oppositional and convicted character who said that he is already waging some kind of election campaign and is fighting the authorities,”

she stated.

Navalny indicates that in the future, statements will be submitted to law enforcement agencies regarding the episodes of the investigation.

Many have already managed to appreciate the work of our new president Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev. But not everyone managed to get acquainted with interesting facts about him.

Biography of Medvedev

He was born in Leningrad on September 14, 1965. Graduated from the Faculty of Law and graduate school at Leningrad State University. He taught at St. Petersburg State University. Simultaneously with his teaching work, he held a number of senior positions in the government of the Russian Federation. And on March 2, 2008, he was elected president of Russia. And his wife Svetlana Medvedeva became the first lady.

Medvedev studied well at school, devoting a lot of time to his studies. In addition to studying, he was fond of hard rock and loved swimming and yoga. His favorite hard rock bands include Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath. And today, together with his son Ilya, Dmitry loves to listen to the band Linkin Park. He loves collecting music records of rock bands, for example, he has collected a complete collection of Deep Purple discs.

Dmitry Anatolyevich, like a true St. Petersburger, supports the Zenit football club. He has also been interested in photography since childhood. His first camera was Smena-8M. And as President of Russia, he even participated in the exhibition “The World through the Eyes of Russians,” which took place in March 2010. Today Medvedev has personal cameras from Nikon, Leica and Canon. In addition to his passion for photography, during his student years Medvedev was involved in weightlifting. And he even won weightlifting competitions in his weight category held at the university.

Medvedev's height

Who would have thought that the height of the president could generate so much interest? However, this is of interest to many, as evidenced by monthly requests on the Internet - about 6,000 requests per month. It’s surprising that with such interest, they don’t write about this anywhere. So the country is perplexed as to how we elected a president of unknown height. Disorder!

Medvedev's height is causing quite a bit of discussion and this interest is primarily due to the fact that the head of such a large state at meetings with the leaders of other countries looks noticeably shorter than everyone else.

His short stature is visible to the naked eye and surrounded by others he looks almost inferior to everyone else. Even Vladimir Putin, whom many called short, is noticeably taller than Medvedev.

Public bewilderment is also fueled by various rumors about the height of our president. Medvedev’s height was not considered unless he was lazy. There are different calculations, although they are not always true. Some believe: Putin’s height is 170 centimeters, and Medvedev is 8 centimeters shorter than him, which means Medvedev’s height is 162 centimeters.

Some sources, for example the newspaper "Arguments and Facts" claim that his height is 175 centimeters, but then he should be taller than Vladimir Vladimirovich. Some press allows themselves a little humor, citing numbers from 156 centimeters.

Official sources are silent about Medvedev’s height; on the Kremlin website there is no information about the height, weight, IQ and other parameters of our president.

So how tall is Dmitry Medvedev?

However, the most truthful and frequently mentioned figure for Dmitry Anatolyevich’s height is considered to be 162 centimeters.

Thus, Medvedev is one of the shortest presidents in the world. He turned out to be lower than his predecessors, who held the post of President of Russia and his modern European colleagues. He is 8 centimeters shorter than Vladimir Putin and a full 27 centimeters shorter than Boris Yeltsin.

Our president will not be able to look “from above” at the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy, whose height is 165 centimeters.

The rise of other world presidents

By the way, Sarkozy's height is also carefully hidden. It is known that he is somewhat complex about this, and wears shoes with low heels. By the way, the height of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in some sources is indicated as the same as that of Sarkozy.

However, from the photographs we can conclude that this is false information, because Belrusconi is noticeably inferior to both Sarkozy and Dmitry Medvedev. The highest politician in Europe is Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of Great Britain. A few centimeters taller than him is George Bush, whose height is 182 centimeters, which, however, is inferior to Bill Clinton - 189 centimeters and Barack Obama - 187 centimeters.

Although Dmitry Medvedev is far from Peter 1, whose height, according to some sources, was 212 centimeters, approximately The same height as him were Joseph Stalin - 163 centimeters and Vladimir Lenin - 164 centimeters. Nikita Khrushchev, Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill are not far behind - 166 centimeters. Below Dmitry Medvedev is Prime Minister of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Wen Jiabao.

Medvedeva's height

His wife Svetlana Medvedeva is also shorter than her husband. Do not forget that height is not an indicator for the head of state. For example, the height of many great figures was even too small. Catherine 2 was 157 centimeters tall, Louis 14 was 156 centimeters tall, Queen Victoria was 152 centimeters tall, Alexander the Great is 150 centimeters, and Genghis Khan and Tamerlane were 145 centimeters tall.

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To the question of Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (President of Russia) - how tall is he? given by the author Vo va the best answer is CURIOUS. The British measured Medvedev's height. He is the shortest president in the world.
The British newspaper The Guardian has found an intrigue in the Russian presidential elections, and to date it has not been resolved: the publication suspects that the elected President Dmitry Medvedev may be the shortest current ruler in the world.
“Until yesterday, it was obvious who owned this dubious title: with a height of 162 cm, it was definitely held by Kim Jong Il. The Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, General Secretary of the Korean Workers' Party and the "great helmsman" of the people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea barely reached the shoulders of his competitors," The Guardian points out. But Medvedev has created confusion: although campaign posters show him standing shoulder to shoulder with his mentor Vladimir Putin, Medvedev is 162 cm tall from head to toe, leaving the question open. So now more precise measurements are needed.
According to official figures, Putin is a full 8 cm taller; journalists try to film Medvedev from below, and when surrounded by other people they advise him to take a step forward, the publication points out.
The only one who could at least somehow lay claim to this title, according to the website shortsupport.org, was French President Nicolas Sarkozy. His height is 168 cm. He is about 10 cm shorter than Madame Sarkozy, but clearly cannot shake Kim's position.

Answer from Nata melek[guru]
Along the route of the motorcade of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev towards the Omsk Oil Refinery, the poster for the play “We are waiting for you, cheerful gnome” was urgently dismantled.
Omsk bloggers and journalists reported on a curiosity that occurred on February 12, the day of the visit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. According to eyewitnesses, the poster for the children's fairy tale was removed almost with axes at lightning speed, Novy Region reports.
Perhaps due to the fact that Dmitry Medvedev, a short man, could take it personally, writes Omsk journalist Andrei Zakharyin on the blog of the Ekho Moskvy radio station.

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All the great ones were short

Answer from Petrov Petrov[guru]
sufficient!
Fits on the stand!
what do you want?
DO NOT LIKE THE PRESIDENT?

Answer from Neya[guru]
something around 165))

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like Carlson))

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meter with a cap.... in a jump...

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below human height.

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small))

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Like David Aaronovich Mendel.