PR and villainy

Director of the FSB of Russia Nikolai Patrushev said that it was possible to detain the persons who were preparing the assassination attempt on the Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko thanks to the operational information received by the special services. The director of the Russian FSB confirmed that the detainees are religious extremists and “were seriously preparing for the crime - two grenades and half a kilogram of explosives were confiscated from them,” Izvestia writes. However, many journalists and experts doubt that the assassination attempt was a real threat. They say that this is the beginning of a large-scale PR campaign “Matveenko for President”.