Alexander Tsipko: “Human rights activists undermine faith in the greatness of Russia”

On February 27, 2006, the Izvestia newspaper published an article by Alexander Tsipko entitled "Dead Ends of Democracy-Kept Women", continuing the campaign against NGOs that had subsided after the "spy scandal" .

In A. Tsipko's article, written in a style that evokes incriminating articles from the Soviet era, literally the following is stated. The US and the West in general finance non-governmental organizations in order to seize power in Russia, and they see democracy as a tool. "The West finances and supports those non-governmental and human rights organizations, those politicians , - the author writes, - who are engaged in ... diluting national self-consciousness, discrediting patriotic feelings, undermining faith in the greatness of Russia" .

"Some human rights activists" are on the payroll of foreign states and, accordingly, "speak from someone else's voice" [so! - ed. ].

“There is nothing more dangerous for the development of democracy in Russia than the combination in the minds of people of the concept of “human rights activist” with the image of Smerdyakov, with the image of a defeatist ” writes A. Tsipko. , and personal freedoms" .

Sources

• Tsipko A. Dead Ends of Democracy-Kept Woman // News. 2006. February 27.