Andrey Bachman: The closure of Gorodskie Vesti is an attempt to manipulate public consciousness

The Volgograd Anti-Fascist Center expressed its indignation at the closure of the Gorodskiye Vesti newspaper, which published a drawing that local United Russia members considered xenophobic. Its activist Andrei Bachman believes that this campaign is the beginning of a new wave of manipulation of public consciousness, in order to distract Russians from real manifestations of xenophobia: “ This is just some kind of nonsense. City News is suspected of trying to stir up an inter-confessional and inter-ethnic conflict!” Andrey Bachman, - The newspaper is threatened to be closed under a far-fetched pretext, while for several years the city authorities have been unable to cope with the openly fascist newspaper Kolokol, in each issue of which you can find a lot of anti-Semitic statements that clearly fall under Article 282 of the Criminal Code on incitement national and racial hostility ," he said.

Comm. We remind you that attempts to speculate on the topic of xenophobia in order to discredit political opponents or to achieve one's own political or PR goals is a phenomenon that clearly manifested itself back in 2005.

Sources

• Yaschenko Vyacheslav. Anti-fascists in Volgograd claim that the scandal over the cartoons leads away from the fight against racism and xenophobia // Caucasian knot. 2006. February 17.