Joint project of Novaya Gazeta and the public protection fund

When journalists are plugged with their mouths, they do not allow their professional duty to fulfill their vile. A real professional is obliged to be in the thick of events and talk about them, no matter what it costs him. In the list of dangerous professions, journalism takes third place - after military and firefighters.

Readers have the right to know what is happening in their country, who rules them, what changes to wait tomorrow. On guard of this law enshrined by Russian legislation, a publicity protection fund has been standing for 10 years - a non -state organization that protects the journalist’s right to collect and disseminate information and the right of the reader to use it.

From this number “New Gazeta” and the fund begin a joint project. The purpose of our common efforts is to draw attention to the state of the press

“ Rosia will not endure the mentor tone and peremptory accusations, which also come from a state where cases of police violence, anti -Semitism and racism,“ custom -made ”journalism, ignoring basic constitutional rights and freedoms are by no means rare.” The statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry in connection with the submission in the US Congress of the annual report of the State Department “On Compliance with Human Rights in the World” with its sharp tone and peremptory marked the desire of the Putin administration to aggravate relations with the West.

The first to react by the Minister of Press Mikhail Lesin. The other day, he made a proposal to begin the formation of a certain “positive image of Russia in the West”. The project is large-scale: to give the export version of the bear of a human person from the Russian budget, it is planned to spend several hundred million dollars.

Soon, the Ministry of Print will begin to allocate grants for social advertising in the Western media, "creating a positive image of Russia." The authorities are going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars from the state budget in the mirror of foreign media to confuse their own reflection in the mirror of foreign media.

That's just interesting: on whose monitoring of media violations in the United States is Lesin going to refer in its alleged report?

Mr. Minister!

The vowel protection fund - an autonomous non -profit organization - wants to take part in the competition "to give them hands with our new image."

In your announcement about the competition, the thought is especially close to us: "We will teach them how to love freedom." It's time! After all, they are beaten and killed by journalists. This is closed by newspapers by order of the chiefs and take licenses for the whim of ministers. They just don't know anything about it. Their corrupt press is attributed to Russia.

We submit an application for the promotion "Miting in Canada". We will go to the rostrum, in the hall. We will (finally again) resemble the war. We will throw it in person: “Russia! Putin! Stalingrad! " And with the silent first three rows, the hall will respond and stand up on this, and sing the old anthem of the Soviet Union on the new words of Mikhalkov (we include photocopying of the text in the draft budget).

You ask: why in Canada? Well, first of all, we hope we know us worse there. And secondly, there is already historical experience in Canada of similar “active” events. You may have read about him. The report on one such rally is printed in the reader for high school for high school.

We ask you to send the fund employees to Canada (12 people) and the support group (600 people), since otherwise the event may break - rent a hall for less than 700 seats with the planned budget of the competition of $ 4 million. It is simply indecent.

In the first three rows, we, taking advantage of our well -known international connections, invite all their newspapers, radio and television, long -purchased and sold by 50 US media Magnates.

Mr. Minister!

We hope that our application will cause you when reading no less enthusiasm than ours - when writing it. Therefore, you could not be campaigned before the Video Internevl about the co -financing of the event, then the rally in our performance could glorify the barbecue - in your performance.

Thank you for your attention!

Hope for a fast positive response of public protection