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The British BBC announced on the occasion of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s apology to Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić for Marija Zaharova’s Facebook post that such public apologies are rare and remind of who the Russian President has apologized to so far and why.
The BBC recalls that on October 26, 2002, Putin publicly apologized to the citizens after the attack on the Dubrovnik theater, where Chechen extremists took the spectators of the musical “Northeast” hostage, and that he apologized to the families of the victims. during action. security force.
Gas was used during the attack and as a result of the poisoning, the poor organization of transporting people to hospitals and the provision of ineffective and untimely care, at least 130 hostages were killed, the BBC reports in Serbian.
In late January 2018, Putin also apologized to members of the Russian Olympic team who were preparing for the Winter Olympics in South Korea, but did not go there.
Only 169 Russian athletes received permission to participate in the Games, although Russia planned to have 500 of them, while the rest were punished by the doping scandal, notes the BBC.
The third apology given by the BBC was sent to workers at the fish processing factory on the Kuril island of Shikotan, who complained to Putin in April 2016 that the factory management owed them wages. Putin immediately ordered the state prosecutor to investigate what was involved.
– I want to apologize to the people I see now on the broadcast. We will do everything possible to improve their situation – said the President of Russia.
An hour later, a criminal investigation was launched against the director of the factory where the workers worked, the BBC notes.
In the same year, 2016, Putin apologized to the voters of Kingisepp, of the Leningrad region, because Sergei Naryshkin, when they elected him as their representative, was transferred from the State Duma as head of the Counterintelligence Security Service. Putin later apologized to Naryshkin.
– Sergei Ivanovich, everyone knows that he went through a difficult road in the electoral campaign and that he did not intend to resign from the parliamentary mandate. That is why I want to apologize to you and your voters, who expressed great confidence in you, Putin said.
In January 2007, during a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Sochi, Putin’s dog, Connie, entered the room, which scared Merkel.
Nine years later, according to the BBC, Putin recalled that fact in an interview with the German magazine “Bild”, saying that he did not even realize that Angela Merkel was afraid of the dog.
– Of course not. I didn’t understand it that way. On the contrary, I wanted to please her, show her my dog. I explained later and apologized to him – Putin said.
Furthermore, on September 4, 2013, Putin, addressing the residents of the Russian Far East affected by the floods, apologized to the people who found themselves in such a situation.
He said he had to apologize that people had problems at evacuation sites and apologized to other government officials as well.
On October 7, 2012, Putin apologized on the Central Television show on NTV for the inconvenience Muscovites experience due to closed roads when a convoy with his car and escort passes by. He then promised to replace the “Mercedes” with a limousine from a national manufacturer, which he later did.
In February of the same year, Putin, who was then prime minister and ran for president again, apologized in advance to Muscovites who had to endure a blockade of the streets due to a rally organized on Poklonja hill in his honor.
Also, in early March 2012, Putin apologized for the case of the Pussy Riot group, whose members entered the Church of Christ the Savior in Moscow and had a musical performance there.
– If you violated the order of the church, then I apologize to the believers and the clergy. I hope something like this does not happen again – Putin said at the time.
The BBC also claims that on September 28, 2011, Putin apologized to the authors of the detective stories, because he had previously called their work “easy read,” and that in early July 2017, he apologized to the first Japanese Minister Shinzo Abe for having to wait for him for an hour. the G20 summit in Hamburg.
Putin justified that he had to extend the meeting with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, which was his first meeting. He apologized to Abe in both his own name and Trump’s, adds the BBC.
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