Hi Mr. Prokhorov,
I've got your birthday cards. One has a funny massage from special someone that you've met and shook hands with, another, a hilarious one - from me. I didn't add anything, just signed. It's about partying silly. Initially, I wanted an official looking card, but couldn't find a real nice one. Serious ones are blank and boring and I don't know what to write. So, hope you'll like this for laughs and won't take it personally.
Now, let's get to business: the business that you don't like to do, so someone has to do it for you. That is surfing the Internet. Your interview on CBS is being discussed in blogosphere. There are comments under youtube clips, others are in actual blogs. To show how vicious people in general can be, how every word of yours can be scrutinized and twisted, you should get a few of them. One of them under youtube called your life a "shallow existence" and how your arrogant soul will be perished. I assume that this poor thing needs money for his drugs and can't get it. Someone was upset with Croft that he interviewed you at all and blamed him for saying that you survived without blood on your hands. Remember Croft said "there were hundreds dead on the streets." Another one I saw in one blog today, calling you "vapid" and "oozy" also didn't like the smirk on your face. He goes on saying that you brought "army of whores into France." Commenter on his blog writes "he never had to work for anything in his life and his closest friends are a plethora of whores" and that you spent money on all those whores to be around you. Another says that you are "overgrown child with flaming Peter Pan complex," etc. I can go on and on, but these are enough. All of it on Google for the world to see. Because you don't use a computer, you won't feel the impact right away. But it will accumulate, spin, go around and will come around one day. Believe me this is a hard work for me to do, spend time writing about this garbage, but I'm doing this out of my heart trying to warn you to be more serious with your image. You represent more than yourself as one person and individual, you represent Russia's image today. They get all their information about it from TV. They don't want to travel there. I don't want to repeat myself, just remind you, please remember, they don't know anything good about Russia or its people. It's time to change, not reconfirm it. Also for yourself as they say in Russian "chest c molodu beregi." You're proof of the positive change in Russia, change to free market economy and prosperity, please put it in a bright light as it is. The type of life you have now surrounded by bodyguards, endless friends that you can fully pay for, you can gradually become isolated from the world of common people and real human values. All over sudden everybody will look small, unimportant, insignificant and life will feel like an easy game. But as we call them in here "fair weather friends" don't last long, one rainy day of your life and they'll be busy with others. No one will be really honest with you or say "no" to you, if they're getting paid by you. Remember some Kings and some big philosophers of old world had a person called a "jester." They had an agreement for life not to punish him. Jester was the one who was allowed to tell the King the truth. That was very wise thing to do for person's common sense and psychological balance. The Supreme court Justices here are appointed for life. I assume federal judges also, I'll double check that. They can't be fired or forced out. This gives them the utmost independence of decision making from the pressures of ruling administrations.
What bothers me about seeing that your image can be distorted, is that you still don't have a Publicist. Even seasoned Hollywood celebrities, some of them who grew up in that lifestyle, still walk on the carpet with their Publicist right next to them, who would stop them and drag them away from talking. When they go to most famous reporters for an interview maybe for the 10th time, still they take their Publicist with them. Just recently a famous lady was on live TV with very famous reporter promoting her book and her Publicist was categorically stopping her from answering to one the questions, until they stopped the reporter from repeating it. She literally took the microphone off and was leaving the chair. Was an ugly scene and was all live on main TV network.
I personally thought it was a normal question, but because it wasn't confirmed, the reporter shouldn't have tried. That's the law and ethics of the business. Take yourself seriously, before you expect from others to do the same to you. Don't worry if they "like" you, worry if they respect you. And, let me add one more thing to this, if I may, because I'm person of perspective, result and consequence, if you let yourself loose, eventually you'll get caught professionally (I can explain this in private) as well as personally. Even a prince, who grew up with everything you just trying to have, had all the grooming and training of precautions from rich and famous parents, knowing that every whore out there looks at him as a prey, still can get caught. And, not only ones. On top of it with a lowest of the low, who would get rid of their own children, just to get their ways with him.
You are a decent person, I feel it from far away. Croft said that you came from "elite" and had privilege to go to best school for economics. What elite? I heard you were born in "comunalka," then your family moved to one bedroom apartment. Is that right? Do they know what it is? How big it was and how many people were sharing it? Why he didn't say that when your mother got sick you went to work to care for her? As a student with your friends you were loading trains with heavy merchandise, each bag or box about 100lb. right? You didn't get into Academy of Finance because you were from "elite," but because you were good in high school and successfully passed the entry tests to FA. Why don't you say this to American people? Normal Americans, which are still the majority in this country, prefer and appreciate hard working, honest person who worked his way up and made a life for himself. Not the so called "filthy rich arrogant elitist from ex-communist enemy camp who pretends he's still a teenager surrounded by army of whores with a smirk on his face." YOU'RE NOT THAT PERSON! You came out from different school of life. All I can guess about your attitude that you were tying to be "cool." Unfortunately in the wrong place with a wrong public. Don't blame them later for "misunderstanding." Let's work on the real picture. Here and now I'm offering my help. I can do interviews with you my way and we'll sell them to main networks in both countries and in both languages. Think about it. This is the perfect time to stop the erosion.
Let's go a little more down the road. A decent woman hardly would want to share or carry a burden of a bad reputation with you down the line in your personal life, no matter how much money you have.
That's the truth. "Playboy man" with screwed up psyche and life is hard to convert into decency and family life or keep him in it. It'd require life time of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with most expensive Clinical Psychiatrist in town.
Not too long ago a professional hooker ran our Governor out of office and sent him to one of those expensive ones. "Playboys" also often end up paying (against their will) for something or somebody they weren't planning and don't want to keep around. Getting hooked with hoochies who drop their drawers, scream loud, don't spare paint on their face and color on their hair, can end a person up with enemies. Enemies to whom playboy's demise will benefit more than his life. What am I talking about? It's simple, but too much to explain. I'd need to get paid for it. But, I remind you this for free; money don't make people happy, it just gives them freedom to do stuff and have stuff. If one is screwed up emotionally, money just will allow to worsened the trend. Someone said "money won't get you real friends, but it will get you better class of enemies."
I've just got an idea; why don't you hire me as your JOT - "Justice of Truth." It might be well worth the investment. We can start with 3 months trial, see how it works?
Next we'll talk food with you. With some juicy stuff.
Maybe some fashion too?
Best regards.
