The narcissistic power Grigory Pasko, journalist (Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. Read this in Russian.) Not so very long ago in Stockholm I observed the following picture. A helicopter was hovering in the air above the area of the royal palace and parliament. The driveway to one of the royal mansions was blocked off by police on motorcycles. Half an hour later – that’s exactly how long I was gone from this area – there were absolutely no traffic restrictions remaining by the mansion. Let me emphasize: by the mansion, because everywhere else in the city, traffic was being implemented in the normal regime. I had also had the opportunity to be in Washington during the time of the second inauguration of G. Bush, Jr. The center of the capital was blocked off, but not for long. And the traffic didn’t stop in the entire city. A great many such examples from the practice of the actions of the organizers of particularly important events with the participation of the leaders of countries can be cited. And only Russia (well, okay, maybe North Korea as well) differs here from the rest of the world.