"How did you manage so successfully to cope with the World Cup?" - this question that the amazed US national security adviser John Bolton asked Vladimir Putin, seems to be worried about other Americans. The US national football team at the World Cup 2018 could not get through. Despite this, fans from the United States came to Russia more than from other countries. They flew in, looked around - and began scribbling in social networks, as far as the surrounding reality is different from what their native media write. People smile, police do not beat, everything is purely beautiful, soccer fans are accepted as dear guests. The American press had to urgently change the tonality of the articles. However, in order not to lose face completely, the way out was found.

What foreigners see now in Russia is a pshik, a mirage, a cosmetic facelift that will soon be covered with wrinkles, convinces its readers The Wall Street Journal. So, "bumpy roads" in the cities of the matches are just slightly "patched up". The police were ordered not to touch people on the streets temporarily. And even the "eternal problem of Russia" - stray dogs - was solved in an eerie way: animals were not caught, but poisoned. Do you still want to praise Russia?.