All - God's dew

Information agencies reported: “Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the World Gazeta Congress in Moscow after the president of the World Gazeta Association, Gavein O'Reili, said that the freedom of the media remains an important guarantor of the irreversibility of the country's democratic development, and the presence of the state in the Russian media market is invariably reduced.

"Mr. O'rali said about the growing presence of the state in the media. I have different information about this. The share of the state assets in the Russian press market is invariably reduced. This is easy to check," Putin said, commenting on O'ralili's speech. "

Indeed, it is easy to check. It is enough to recall how public Russian television became the “First Channel”. Whether the actual owner of the channel B. Berezovsky or very bad was bad - it does not matter for our topic. It is important that he pursued his interest, which did not always coincide with the interest of the Kremlin. As well as his interest was pursued by the former owner of NTV, V. Gusinsky, and the former owner of Ren-TV-RAO UES, and the former owners of other television channels, newspapers and magazines. It is important that these interests were different, because everyone's businesses were different, and therefore, with the exception of situations, “h” like the 1996 elections, they could not agree with each other. That was all of us, fellow citizens, salvation, that is why we knew why and why they removed the prosecutors, premieres and ministers. Now - we do not know. Now both the Channel One and the second, the TV channel “Russia”, and the fourth, NTV, and everyone else’s point of view always miraculously coincides with the one prescribed by the Kremlin.

Indeed, it is easy to check. It is enough to recall how, shortly after the acquisition of the Izvestia newspaper Gazprom, the newspaper (already this year) announced the “information partnership” with the Party of power - “United Russia”, and representatives of the Kremlin, the very party and its special services -inhabitants came to the place of professional journalists.

Indeed, it is easy to check. Literally in the coming days it will be announced that the Kommersant Publishing House is one of those publishing houses that miraculously avoided expression of the last six years - the same was sold from the hammer. Well, from the hammer - not from the hammer - for $ 120 million. According to information from serious sources, the new owner became ... Millhouse Capital, owned by Roman Abramovich. To the very one who bought the ORT channel from B. Berezovsky five years ago, and then presented the television channel to the Kremlin. To whom R. Abramovich will give the Kommersant Publishing house is not known exactly. It is known: give - and be sure. They say - Gazprom. However, this is already insignificant.

It is significant that even the president in the context of information asphyxia is increasingly using unverified sources. However, we will not be cunning: we know that not a single deal in the media market without a direct permission for that V. Putin can take place. All the president knows very well. But he cannot and does not want to refuse to play with words in the pleasure of playing in words: “The share of state assets in the Russian press market is invariably reduced. It's easy to check. ” Indeed, it is easy to check. Especially if you know that Gazprom, Severstal, Surgutneftegaz (as it was, for example, in the story of the purchase of the REN-TV channel) acquired media assets by direct instructions (with a price tag on the wrapper) and the consent personally V.V. Putin. As the president knows and the fact that not a single television channel and no large newspaper can afford to luxury to catch the president on ... free treatment of facts.

And still - amazing: after all, he could keep silent or at least use more streamlined formulations. I did not consider it necessary.