Courier for congratulations

Voronezh authorities make it clear why the media are needed

"Gubern-press" - under this title an article was published in the 36th issue of "Novaya Gazeta". Let me remind you: the editor, Dmitry Dyakov, was changed in Kurier, and the circulation of the first issue with a new editor, in which journalists turned to ...

"Gubern-press" - under this title an article was published in the 36th issue of "Novaya Gazeta". Let me remind you: in the "Courier" they changed the editor, Dmitry Dyakov, and put under the knife the circulation of the first issue with the new editor, in which the journalists turned to the governor with a collective letter. Then it came to a joke.

A picket was held in the city center ("Memorial", "Soldier's Mothers", "Solidarity", etc.) with placards: "Tired of propaganda, censorship and lies", "Governor, implement the Law "On Mass Media", "Voronezh Courier" - the island culture in the ocean of rudeness and lies”, “Gordeev, hands off the property of Voronezh!”. VK itself prepared an article about the picket, and the new editor agreed that the newspaper could not ignore the picket in its own defense. Then I decided: no, well, fuck it, this note. Then he was persuaded - after all, the situation is absurd! — and he agreed. But only to have it come out for his signature. And soon after, he took down the note.

At the same time, people's artists, musicians, artists, university professors, and some famous Voronezh residents sent collective letters to the governor. These letters appeared on many sites on the Internet and even on the blog of Governor Gordeev. Blog traffic skyrocketed; Everyone was waiting for what the governor would say to the intelligentsia.

Kommuna published a desperate article “Power and the Press”, describing in detail how the press department and the press service of the regional administration rule the districts and put amazing texts “urgently in the room”.

Here are instructions from the former journalist, and now the boss of the press department Vasily Smolyanov, to the editors of the districts:

"Dear Colleagues! With great surprise, I listened to the questions of some of you: “Is it necessary to congratulate the governor on his anniversary in the regional newspaper?” This question is from the category: “Does an editor need to go to work?” I EXPLAIN. Congratulations to the governor! On behalf of the editor. If the head of the district administration also wants to congratulate the district, that’s good too.”

"URGENTLY!!!!!!!!!! I explain about the reservation of the strip in the pre-holiday issue. We are talking about an interview with the wife of the governor ... ".

On this occasion, some editorial offices were even ordered to postpone the release of the issue from Friday to Saturday, which has not happened in the history of the Voronezh press since the Civil War.

"Savalskie Dawns":

“It is a great honor and an immensely pleasant mission to congratulate the Governor of the Voronezh Region on his 55th birthday… Dear Alexei Vasilyevich! For a short period of your tenure in your current post, you have already left a good mark in the history of our region. Thanks to your reforms and managerial decisions, positive changes are clearly visible in the socio-economic, cultural and moral spheres…”.

Smolyanov sent a dispatch to the districts: not to allow publications about the director of the Rudgormash enterprise Chekmenev, who is in jail.

For disobedience, editors are threatened with a decision on the question "of the expediency of their work in their current position."

Oksana Sokolova, head of the regional government's press service, told me over the phone that there was no point in making any comments about Voronezh Courier. Everything settled down: Dyakov was given a new place, quite decent and with a higher salary, none of the “couriers” quit, and changes in the media are inevitable ...

German Poltaev, editor of the department of politics and law of the Voronezh Courier:

“Dima Dyakov always wanted to be fired. Yes, the authorities always have claims against the intelligentsia. As soon as such claims dry up, it will mean that the intelligentsia has disappeared. The intelligentsia will disappear - the nation will disappear, this is obvious. I think that the intelligentsia will also have many complaints against the authorities. The conversation on that topic has been on the pages of the Voronezh Courier for twenty years. The change of editor, in my opinion, means that the authorities are tired of such conversation. But, frankly speaking, many people are tired of the stupid and narcissistic government, too.”