Fairy tale on the Persian oil and seven carefree sheikhs.
Fairy tale on the Persian oil and seven carefree sheikhs.
Miners lay down on rails of the Russian roads. Veterans of war
Sell awards on a flea market. Little girls dream of the most profitable (it
The most ancient) trades.
What to do? In the country crisis, in the country is not present money. We and in most
Business the poor?
And I recollect a fairy tale on Arab Emirates. Read and solve the immemorial
The Russian question: "As it is possible to our people to starve, sitting on a chest
With such natural riches? "
I And YOU need the sun and the sea. And still a pure sand ashore.
And after east abundance of a buffet. Around the cheerful suntanned
Friends and ready to smiles and services waiters. For all it is paid not
The last in this life coins: the smallest - with bas-reliefs of three
Oil derricks, is larger - with a proud national symbol - high
The coffee pot which has bent a neck is not worse than a swan.
You and I live in a white cottage. Every day - pool in a palace,
Eternally green garden and is a lot of sun. This slice of paradise to us has presented
The state - in almost lifelong interest-free instalments.
You are an owner of factory, and to me belongs ten business concerns
With the foreign capital.
Us operates wise Zaid. To it eighty. In photos and
Posters - no more than forty. Zaid - the sheikh. We - its native, near and
Distant - citizens of the United Arab Emirates.
We have created the country for thirty years. In 1966 Allah at will in a shelf
At our coast have found oil and gas. Then Zaid and six nearest sheikhs
Have created a miracle. Paradise on the bank of Persian gulf from the blue sky,
The sparkling sun, green gardens. For all citizens of the country - native.
From world creation here there was a desert. 58п? - in the spring and in the summer, plus
Enormous humidity. Each palm tree in streets of our cities - small
Feat. Hardly the wind will disturb yellow sand, the uneasy system opens
Irrigation hoses. To each blade on a lawn, to each bush.
Management - automatic. At certain o'clock water moves. So on all
To the country.
Our capital Abu-Dhabi - garden city. At will of the sheikh and the most complicated
Irrigation systems. Sixty seven squares of greens on the inhabitant of capital! On
Pleasure to the black Nubian either the yellow Hindu, or white Russian
To the "shuttle" sighing bitterly, looking at our riches: "And we?"... Ours
Roads do not concede on quality to the European. On each kilometre -
Automatic radar: excess of speed - an instant photo of the driver
And car number is brought in the computer. The receipt with the size of the penalty stands out
Instantly. But the policeman in our country - the friend. I put the "jeep" against
Your mobile phone - will do without the penalty. Simply with a smile will tell: "That
It was last time! ".
It is difficult, if at the wheel the married woman. We are Moslems. In the sacred
The Koran we with you have read: the brother of Moslems - a camel, sister - a palm tree, well
And the woman - our shade. Therefore each man in the Emirates carries the white
Clothes, and his mother, the daughter and the wife - black. The woman under a black veil can
To break traffic almost with impunity - to identify it it is impossible.
Let policemen grumble. Modesty and advantage of the Arabian women
- State corner stone. Yes, our girls carry black capes
And an obligatory scarf. Let persons married are closed by the most thin silk.
The Islamic woman - the citizen of the Incorporated Emirates, receives equal with
The man education, fine drives the car, participates in the liked
Entertainment of Arabs - races on camels. Yes-yes, the most dashing jockeys carry
Female names. And chetyrnadtsatiletnjaja Latifa - the daughter dubajskogo the sheikh - became
Talisman of annual trading festival "Children of the world meet in Dubai".
And what such Dubajsky festival?
Crafty glass blowers from Palestin, in Russian generous armourers from
Yemen, distribute on pleasure to tourists a semiprecious beads for one-two
Casual coins meditating jewellers-Hindus... In a word, read fairy tales
"Thousand and one night" - here that such dubajsky festival!
And fireworks over a gulf every night? And tears of delight of the magnificent
Vanessy Mej on a feast in day of opening? And our well-known lotteries? And
Uncompromising prize - on the Gold market - 50 kgs pure
Gold, and "jeep" can be won in each shopping centre.
Business in the Incorporated Emirates is under construction simply: the foreigner will receive
The licence, if 51 percent of the company - the property of the citizen of ours
The countries. Financial advantages? Long-term guarantees. Absence of taxes
And a cheap labour. No, not citizens of the Emirates. "Limitchiki" come from
Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan.
Our children free of charge study at local school. Its certificate - it is international
The recognised permit without examinations to Eton and Cambridge. To first-graders on
Four years. The first subjects - the computer, the Arabian and English languages.
Our daughters and wives spend time in female clubs - magnificent palaces
On the bank of Persian gulf. Aerobics, shaping, massage, beauty salons...
But with a condition - in club only women. Exceptions - boys to ten
Years. Only in female club - dresses from Kardena and Versache! Though quite often
The immodest impulse of a wind opens a harmonous leg on an ultraplatform or
In jeans from Calvin Klein...
Our fathers remember poverty under protectorate of Englishmen. Piracy
Coast - so these earths on the bank of a gulf named. Itself Sindbad has sung
Convenience of our ports. And ancestors caught pearls in glory of the British crown.
The god has sent us oil there where has selected pearls, - to the sea. On the first place on
To stocks, about ninety percent, Abu-Dhabi, on the second - Dubai. The third -
At Shardzha. The others emiraty - on the grant. But with a vote. After all ours
The state - federation.
Sheikhs choose the Supreme governor among themselves the majority of voices.
Almost twenty seven years - only Zaid, the sheikh of Abu-Dhabi. Eighteen
Sons. The exact quantity of daughters is not known. The Elder son - the vice-premier.
One of younger - the state minister of foreign affairs. Jobs in
The state will suffice on all! Senior wife Zaida - sheikh Fatma is famous
Modesty - any photo for all career of the first lady!
But even time of changes has come to strict conservative Abu-Dhabi.
The island Sadijat becomes shopping centre of the Incorporated Emirates. So has solved
The Supreme governor. The six-kilometre bridge will connect island to Abu-Dhabi.
Project essence - creation of a zone of free trade. Attraction of the foreign
The capital with the right of full possession. Clearing of all taxes. Trade
70 kinds of raw materials - black and nonferrous metals, oil, grain... Four
Billion dollars of investments.
It is the PRESENT call emiratu Dubai. The sheikh of Dubai Rashed here has tried
ben Said Al Maktum - the father present. Has in the late sixties put in pawn trading port.
The oil tanker of the advanced sizes will dance a waltz without damage to
Itself and the first class harbour. To port of Dubai is not present equal on the size, depth
And technical equipment. From an easy hand of sheikh Rasheda in Dubai for the first time
In the Emirates there were free economic zones Dzhebel-Ali and Dubajsky
The airport. The unique tunnel is entered into 75th in all Near East
SHindanga. It is a bilateral two-way highway in length about
Kilometre. The tunnel is electrified, equipped by ventilation and an extract...
Wise Rashed has passed in the world other, but its business lives. In Dubai is under construction
The unique airport from mirrors and concrete, an UFO from films about
Newcomers. The sum of investments - two hundred billions dollars. Well,
Position obliges: the market of Dubai is served by 80 airlines. Every day on
Three planes from Moscow, three of Baku, two times in a week planes from
Irkutsk, Chita, Nizhnevartovsk, seven-eight in a week from Central Asia...
Arabs in the Emirates willingly and purely speak Russian. Business not only
In that many words are similar. Coincide a pronunciation and intonations of speech.
In the Incorporated Emirates are able and like to receive visitors. Eighty
Percent of a total national product it is created now in sectors
The economy, not connected with oil extracting. Business in what? In United
The Emirates have counted: natural stocks will suffice for two hundred years. Means, has come
It is time to think of great-grandsons - to lay the foundation for their well-being. Means,
Strategic oil stocks are frozen. Means, the basic role -
To the finance, building, transport, service sphere.
Means, and children - riches of the state and a prosperity of parents. The grant
At a birth and on the maintenance - ten thousand dollars monthly. Yours
The daughter marries? The traditional bride money established by the law in three hundred
Thousand dollars will soften separation. And if the son (plays week wedding on
To custom of the Incorporated Emirates), the state will pay expenses on a feast and
Bride money part for the bride!
SPECIAL exclusive caste - Englishmen. Contracts with representatives
The former empire consist for the fabulous sums in comparison with Russian
The same qualification. The Arabian firm pays habitation, education
English children, quite often even a food (though teachers at schools ohotnee
Accept Russian of children - for natural sharpness and diligence). Widely
The English golf club, most is known in narrow exclusive circles
Abrupt sheikhs act in roles of its visitors, constant membership - only at
Citizens of an English crown. The same in youth discos, schools etc.
But at sheikhs of claims is not present. Not so long ago president Zaid has made
In England successful operation. And the sheikh emirata Shardzha hardly was has not lost
The authorities during official journey to the former mother country. The younger brother
Has raised a claim to the third on value emirat - Dubai has supported the upstart, and
The wise president, sheikh Zaid, has suggested to wait for returning lawful
The governor. Now the younger brother of the sheikh of Shardzha in the honourable link, without the right
Movement on the country and for its limits. And the lawful governor even in a mosque
Native emirata drives on bulletproof "jeep". And it is direct in him
Makes namaz.
And in the Emirates the Prohibition. In Abu-Dhabi and Dubai pour only
In hotels. And here in Shardzha observe absolute dryness. However, among
Drinking Russian tourists not clear hearings about an underground warehouse go. The prices there
Dray, assortment standard - vodka, gin, whisky. Here only drivers
Taxi frequently co-operate with police - for journey in a state of intoxication on
To laws of the Incorporated Emirates can give and eight years...
But more religiously all laws to addicts - a death penalty for
Distribution. To foreigners in the Emirates requirements special - for one
Crime of own citizens punish much more poorly. In a course
Sentences in the spirit of Sheriyat - lashes, sticks, public zabivanie stones. And
Still - except the punishment provided by the law, the murderer pays to a family
Victim "money for blood", about forty thousand dollars of indemnification.
Sharply there is in the Incorporated Emirates Russian question. Seldom inform
To tourists on the historical Native land that they fly to have a rest in the country of the dry
The law. Here also collects them, darling, police from beaches and parks, here and sew
It terms for alcohol. Hope of the orthodox God yes on the tourist
The company. Fresh history from coast of Persian gulf: the guy and
The little girl, New year, a beach, and in the Incorporated Emirates is declared a post
According to the Koran. Carry them in prison. To it give eight years, to it - eighty
Blows by sticks. Has gained Trojan - the young Russian businessman. Has spent
Negotiations with knowledge Arabian and local customs - deported on
The native land an unlucky couple...
In the end morals. Air buses "Moscow - Dubai" remind working buses
Stagnation times. A second-hand market, business conversations and conversations "for a life".
The people Arabian "communism" seen personally are disturbed: "Here only
Oil, and in Russia?. "" Here only "jeeps" give, as boxes of sweets, and at
Us?. "" Here at everyone own palace moreover the profitable house in a kind
Skyscraper, and we?. "
"In Russia oil, gas, gold, brilliants, yes that only is not present,
And us learn on the TV - we the country poor, to count to you, people
Kind, there is nothing... But we too all among themselves native for a millenium
The liked Native land! "...
Irina FEDOTOVA.
//* an information Source: the Russian newspaper, 26.06.98
//* Reg. Nom. - 1080600206.75-------------------------------------------
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