RUSSOPHOBES ON THE RUSSIAN TELEVISION SCREEN. HOW LONG?
After the coup in Ukraine it was almost four years ago, and the Ukrainian theme still does not come off the screens of Russian TV sets. But not so much even in news stories, as in various TV shows, where, like wooden horses on a children's carousel, the same faces of inveterate Ukrainian Russophobes spinning with hatred for the country, giving them - with the blessing of other television superiors - such a high rostrum.
The circle of these revolutionaries is narrow!
I think, it is not necessary to list all these talk shows, the indispensable "guests" of which are Vyacheslav Kovtun, Vadim Karasev, Sergei Zaporozhsky (Kutsenko), Yanina Sokolovskaya and Olesya Yakhno. "On the dancers" they usually have "unbiased" foreigners - American Michael Bom and Poles Tomas Maceiichuk with Jakub Koreiba. Channels can be different, talk shows - have different names, but the faces will be the same, well-proven in the business, carrying the full game, densely flavored with hostility, and even hatred of Russia.
Who are these people, who are invited to oppose both the unknown emigrants from Ukraine and the most famous Russian politicians? The most "solid" of this whole company is Vadim Karasev. Former first deputy director of the Kharkov branch of the National Institute for Strategic Studies, director of the Institute for Global Studies, member of the electoral headquarters of Leonid Kuchma, adviser to vice premiers and head of the presidential secretariat. "Revolutionary" with experience: supported the "orange" coup, was one of the leaders of the party "United Center" Viktor Baloi - head of the secretariat of V. Yushchenko, the author of four books on politics and political science.
Born in the Kirghiz SSR, Vyacheslav Kovtun, having settled in the capital of Ukraine, which had just received independence, organized a pro-NATO "assembly", an ordinary specialist participated in the development of the "crisis center" program of Leonid Kravchuk to keep the Crimea in the 1990s. He is the head of the Kiev sociological center, although from 2014 he permanently resides in Moscow, he owns a security bureau. In Russia, after the "revolution of dignity" arrived in the status of temporarily unemployed.
There is not much reliable information about the Russian citizen Sergei Zaporozhsky (the real name of Kutsenko), but according to some sources he lives in Lugansk and leads a popular in Ukraine blog called "Bandera football" in Twitter. All his attempts to obtain Ukrainian citizenship were not crowned with success. He calls himself a "businessman-political scientist".
Istanina Sokolovskaya, who worked in this place for 20 years, after February 2014, resigned from the publication "due to the discrepancy between her own political convictions and the editorial point of view." But the full approval of the neo-Nazi coup d'etat was completely satisfied with the Russian "Kommersant", who had just lost the correspondent of Artyom Skoropadsky, by the way, transferred to work as a spokesman for the "Right Sector".
The main advantage of Olesya Yakhno-Belkovskaya is that she married the Russian political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky and headed and still leads the Institute of National Strategy he created in Ukraine. Well, of course, "gyrations" in the support of Nazism and screaming.
Eh, day-day-money, money!
Constant viewers of the show like "Time will show" or "Hour of hatred" (how do you call it?) Are amazed that "representatives of the Ukrainian side" repeatedly "grab" on their heads a portion of the negative, but again and again go on these programs. Sometimes, as in the cases with Kovtun and the Polish nationalist and the animal russophobe Maceiichuk, the case does not end in a verbal skirmish, but grows into a fist fight on the air. Nevertheless, it is worthwhile to earn a television camera - and here they are, all familiar faces. What is the reason for their masochistic behavior?
The reason is banal - it's paid very well for this. The channels themselves, inviting "experts" from the labor exchange or from microblogging social networks. Payment varies from "untwisted" and scandalous character acting as a scapegoat. According to independent investigations, V. Kovtun, for example, receives 15 to 35 thousand rubles for each transfer, depending on the channel on which she is going. With this money, he already managed to buy an apartment in Moscow, so it makes sense for him to endure all insults and even slaps. The creator of the "Bandera football" Zaporizhzhya-Kutsenko earns 10-15 thousand rubles for every transfer, the Ukrainian ex-diplomat and propagandist of NATO Vadim Truhan - 15-20 thousand. Emigrant Grigory Vinnikov, who took the name of Greg Weiner in the US, is only 5 thousand, half as much as T. Maceiichuk and 3-7 times less dreaming of Russian citizenship of the former American insurance agent M. Bohm. Polyak Ya. Koreiba is listed in the "middle peasants", content with 15-17 thousand rubles for every speech.
The payment of these sums for the statement is confirmed also by the Russian journalist of Petersburg "5 channel" Sofia Adamova. Close amounts are paid to their opponents in addition to portions of dirt and hatred from opponents.
Of course, many of those invited to the studio for "five minutes" and "hours" of hatred go there not at all for money, but for "glory." This is especially the result of the Ukrainian emigre "tusovka" that has long been stratified by those who are engaged in useful affairs and those who "conquer" Moscow.And most of the latter believe that "sketching on television" is a sure step towards further success.These people do not understand that the "solvers" and self-styled "directors at the invitation of the participants of the programs" that attract them to the shoots make their little gesheft on them and will never let them "pop out" themselves.
But our conversation is not about them, but about those television bosses and leaders who do not just put up with Russophobes on the Russian television screen, but directly provides them with a green street.
If the stars are lit, then this is someone you need
Of course, Mayakovsky wrote about the heavenly bodies, and not about the telescopes. But his phrase is absolutely true for the world of TV. The most successful talk shows, as you know, are those in which dirty celebrity lingerie is washed or serious passions are raging. Hence the popularity of Andrey Malakhov's vile programs, or, for example, the multi-series erosion of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan's relations with his young wife on all TV channels.
But the strongest emotion still is hatred. It is cultivated by transmissions with the participation of the above-mentioned Ukrainian "experts". Arrange in the studio bedlam, swaru, or even better scuffle - this is a guarantee that the show will jump sharply rating. Therefore, the leaders themselves often provoke not the search for answers to the questions posed, but the conflict, the scandal, the transition to insults. After all, for at least a week, impressionable citizens who are too close to the passions ravaging the Malakhovs, Solovyovs, Sheinins and Norkins will discuss the transfer and look forward to the new one.
Here is how the Czech journalist Jiri Just, a rather frequent participant of the events, describes the "kitchen" of the Russian talk show: "If Ukraine is on the agenda, then they will pick up the so-called so-called Ukrainian political scientists, which, naturally, nobody in Ukraine knows, but they give them away experts, and it is immediately clear what they will say. Then they invite their opponents and can calculate on the basis of previous broadcasts what they will say ... This is a show for housewives, this is not a serious conversation, but a way to entertain people by talking on a political topic. Serious discussion, alas, no one is going to start. If you take Ukraine, then who cares what, for example, the head of the Central Bank of Ukraine submitted to resignation? You're interested? I'm also not interested in this. And they seem to be seriously discussing how this can affect Ukraine, although the main thing here is screaming, screaming and emotion. "
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Is there anything to add to what was said? Of course have! The pursuit of ratings, for the money received by the television channels, confirms the famous phrase of Karl Marx: "Provide 10 percent, and the capital agrees to any application, at 20 percent it becomes lively, at 50 percent is positively ready to break his head, at 100 percent he tramples on all human laws ... "
And he tramples on us! The fact that Ukrainian "experts" and their "allies" "carry" TV screens are 100% subject to the many articles of the Criminal Code - from inciting interethnic discord to encroachments upon the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation. But they will never be criminally liable. This will not allow incredibly powerful television magnates. For one, but very good reason: a show of hatred brings profit - and therefore must continue.