US President Donald Trump, from the point of view of the vast majority of the “main” American media, goes to Helsinki on July 16 to inform his curator, Russian President Vladimir Putin, about the successful operation to destroy America, democratic ideals and leadership in the world. Their inevitable handshakes and public courtesies in Helsinki mean no less than the future dissolution of NATO, recognition of Crimea, rejection of globalization and ...

In the television movie of Vladimir Solovyov “World Camp 2018” Vladimir Putin discusses the nuclear war: “Yes, for humanity it will be a global catastrophe, for the world there will be a global catastrophe” and wonders: “Why do we need such a world if Russia is not there?” A series of warlike statements by the Russian president has become the subject of discussion among politicians, experts and world media.

Before the applause of the State Duma deputies to itself had time to respond in connection with the adoption of a law that allows the media to equate the media with foreign financing with the NKO-foreign agents, as the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation sent a “black label” , a warning about the need to meet the requirements of the new (not even adopted) law of the law of the Russian authorities related to the Government of the United States.

Alexei Navalny proposed to introduce a restriction on the ownership of the media for financial and industrial groups and businessmen, the politician wrote about this on his blog after the owner of SIB.FM Andrei Ksenchuk said that the editors decided not to cover Navalny’s rally at the request of the people who finance the publication.

There are less than a month left before the US president. But the main television show of the country has been going on for almost two years: billionaire Donald Trump has been conducting a campaign, breaking the established rules and boundaries of American politics, probably forever. As an experienced businessman, marketer and PRA Trump used for his own purposes the entire power of the media system, led by the FOX information empire.

Reuters / soe zeya tun The Japanese media giant Nikkei acquired from PEARSON PLC. Almost all business Financial Times, the largest business magazines in Europe, for £ 844 million (approximately $ 1.3 billion). The deal, about which the market spoke for some time (though, as a possible buyer, a completely different media contract was discussed, the German Axel Springer - the Japanese entered into negotiations only five weeks ago), is of serious importance for the entire industry.

Disputes about whether the Internet (in this case with a capital “I”) is the most important engine of human progress or the biggest obstacle to such movement constantly flares up among philosophers, technology analysts and, especially, journalists. Ilya Klishin’s text , recently published on Colta.ru, is a very illustrative example of Internet pessimism.

Illustration from the English -speaking Prochrevsky site: "Western fuckers on the Russian media only confirm that they are telling the truth" From the CPSU to Putin: What was the path to new censorship and new media reality in Russia In the winter of 1987, I moved from the Moscow Komsomolets to work in the weekly week. At 22, I got to the temple of a Soviet journalist. On the third day of work, they brought me a form for business cards and instructions - how to get them.

All characters are conventional, all coincidences are invented What will happen to the country of XX, its government, its population and its economy if tomorrow... ...At the usual time for waking up, no one came out of the bedroom of the President of the XX country. After waiting the appropriate half hour, the first one attached quietly opened the armored door.

The law to limit foreign influence in the media creates the conditions for redistribution of property, in which many will have something to profit Photo: Sergey Mikheev/Kommersant The ban for foreigners to control the Russian media only at first glance has the main goal of tightening censorship. If you look more closely at the fresh law, it turns out that someone’s selfish considerations are behind it.

On September 17, a draft law was submitted to the State Duma prohibiting foreign individuals and legal entities, citizens of the Russian Federation with dual citizenship, as well as stateless persons from establishing mass media in Russia. In addition, the share of foreigners in the capital of companies that own Russian media is proposed to be limited to twenty percent of the shares. I see the proposed draft (the text of which is still missing, by the way) for three reasons.

“They explained to us, future specialists of the GRU General Staff, that it was a conspiracy.” The time difference between Moscow and Sakhalin in 1983 was 8 hours. It was a relaxed August evening in Moscow, and in the night sky over the Sea of ​​Okhotsk one of the worst tragedies in the history of civil aviation was unfolding.

For many analysts, the situation in Russia today is an observation of the counter-motion into which the country is being dragged by its leader and the ruling class, frozen in an offended stupor. And just as in the Strugatskys’ wonderful story, this is a discrete counter-motion, and selective and irregular.

The recent announcement by the President of Columbia University about the creation of the Global Freedom of Expression & Information @Columbia project once again underscored the fact that these issues - freedom of speech, citizens' rights to information - remain of utmost importance to the academic community, and - if you look at the composition of the experts - global interstate institutions.

When “domestic notes” turned to the topic of the media and media communications in the life of Russian society in 2003, there was another era in the yard. Only very approximate contours of the world that surrounds us today were visible. We could not imagine either a way of changes or their speed, and the political and social processes that occurred rather inspired optimism, although mixed with anxiety. After 11 years, returning to this topic is an enviable task for the researcher.