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Breakthrough

January 31, 2012 Alexander Ryklin

On Sunday evening, last week, if anyone did not notice, one iconic happened, I would even say a revolutionary event - an information blockade was broken in Russia. Of course, many will object that the streams from under this dam oozed a long time ago. What is true. In recent weeks, here and here, on one television channel, then, from time to time, opposition faces flashed, separate seditious words and whole phrases slipped, but all this seemed, it seemed, random, non -systemic character. But it only seemed to us.

On Sunday evening, irreparable happened: two central television channels - the first and NTV - for several hours of the most popular airtime were engaged in consistent ruthless destruction of many years of ideological constructions and propaganda stamps. Namely, the deskallization of such expensive and close to the ordinary Russian corrupt official of the images of Vladimir Putin and his party "United Russia". This was done in one case (on the first) by the efforts of Vladimir Ryzhkov (but not only - Gennady Gudkov and Vladimir Zhirinovsky made his contribution to the struggle for freedom of speech), and in another (on NTV) - the efforts of Olga Romanova and Boris Nemtsov.

Moreover, Gordon’s program on Channel One personally seemed even more radical and frank. For example, they showed a selection of videos that eloquently confirm the numerous facts of falsification in the past parliamentary elections. Perhaps the feeling of forgotten frankness already arose, including thanks to the liberated and very convincing Vladimir Ryzhkov, who was clearly in the blow that evening and chopped the truth-uterus from the shoulder. Compared to him, Boris Nemtsov on NTV looked a little clamped. It was felt that he constantly thinks about installation and tries to formulate phrases in such a way that it was more difficult to tear them out of context. Later we found out that really Nemtsov shredded much more inherently than Ryzhkova. And yet .... “Kum was a cucumber and added with a mud:“ Our father turned out to be not a father, but a bitch ”” (Alexander Galich).

That is, on Sunday Prime, the country made a discovery for the discovery for itself. It turned out that, surrounded by Vladimir Putin, full of thief characters, and his main party “One, Damn, Russia”, for which the large and small bosses, generally a party of crooks and thieves were called up yesterday. That all power in Russia (not only the State Duma) is illegitimate (Vladimir Zhirinovsky). That the country urgently needs new elections. What - attention !!! - The upcoming elections of the President of Russia will be dishonest anyway! Regardless of whether Churov will engage in falsifications on the voting day or not. And this is a direct encroachment on the main ideological concept of the last weeks: they say, if Putin’s elections are honest, this means that he will be a legally chosen president of Russia. That is legitimate. “Nope,” the leading television channels of the country tell you, “Putin will not be a legitimate president. This train has already left for Vladimir Vladimirovich ... "

Now an important question: how can we interpret this obvious breakthrough of the information blockade? And what will follow him? For example, the editor -in -chief of The New Times, Evgeny Albats, believes that this is just a descending of a couple before the presidential election. Say, after a crushing victory in the first round, the nuts will twist even the same ... allow myself to disagree with this point of view.

It seems to me that a return (so far, of course, very conditional) to the principles and standards of really free television (who knows, maybe we will see direct broadcasts soon?) - a frontal attack both on the security forces in general and Vladimir Putin specifically. Moreover, in a period decisive for the entire corporation, when it is preparing to fix its competitive advantage on the political scene of Russia once and for all. And, it seems, she-this attack-is authorized by someone. Films about espionage stones, about the American passport of Lyudmila Alekseeva, about the opposition’s campaigns to bow to the American ambassadors with programs in which Nemtsov and Ryzhkovs reveal the regime and his main beneficiary do not hurt her. This is some different television that lobbies the interests of different groups. In any case, they will all be on stage soon. In the shade, no one will be able to sit out ...

However, obvious changes in the information policy of leading television channels indicate primarily that any changes are possible today in Russia only if there are serious pressure from civil society. Today, everyone who went to pure ponds, Bolotnaya and Sakharov can say with a complete reason: changes in the country are taking place thanks to us! So, the mass of protest will only increase, and the requirements will be radicalized. In a different result, the result cannot be achieved ...

Ahead is a month before, possibly, a turning point in the history of our country. And this month we must dial such a pace so that even their thoughts do not have to try to stop us!

Screenshot of television programs of Channel One and NTV