USRO NOT in contact

The party of power is confused on the network

296 virtual deputies. The United Russia party decided to contact the Internet party through the VKontakte social network. How they did it - observed The New Times

United Russia heard the president and decided to turn around to face modern technologies. “A official who does not know how to use the Internet, just like a businessman who does not know how to use a computer, has no future,” Dmitry Medvedev taught students of Dalnyansk University during his visit to China back in September 2010. At the end of October 2010, accounts on the VKontakte social network were created for all members of the Duma faction of United Russia.
Of the 296 created pages 97 are already “killed”. Another 8 deputies of the remaining 199 deleted their title photographs, instead of which large interrogative signs are now hanging. Only 24 deputies showed activity and changed standard photographs borrowed from the State Duma website, to their own - who flaunts against the background of book shelves, who has a wall hung with diplomas, and deputy Peter Guzhvin simply stands next to the portrait of Boris Gryzlov. The remaining 167 pages are laconic and similar: surname-Fatigue, photography from the Duma album (blue background, sad gaze), date of birth, the name of the university, the position and address of the State Duma website. Neither lists of friends, no reviews. The most important thing is that of all 199 surviving deputy web pages, only 8 can fully fulfill their communicative role: their owners can send a message and enter into correspondence with them. Potential voters will not be able to contact the rest of the people's chosen ones with all the desire. The same applies to the deputies who have acquired web receives before the general party initiative: for example, Boris Gryzlov or Alina Kabaeva “are present” “VKontakte” for a long time, but the voter cannot write them. Having decided that five months are enough for deputy acclimatization on the network, The New Times conducted an experiment: I tried to talk with united Russia in the virtual space and checked how few working e-receiver functioning.
Girl Sasha
We created our own page of an imaginary young voter. Meet the girl Sasha, 20 years old, a student of a slide. The photograph is a slender brunette, she is young and does not really understand politics, but she knows that in December 2011 there will be elections to the State Duma and wants to decide who she can vote for. To resolve this issue, the girl sent letters to all available deputies: “What to do? Why do you need to choose United Russia? Is it right? "
Only three deputies responded to the call of the young voter.
The deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction, Irina Yarovaya gave such advice: “I think that choice is a civil position and meaningful action. All information about the ideology, real deeds and initiatives of our party is full on the website of United Russia. You have your own opportunity to comprehend all this and make your own decision. ” Yarovaya, by the way, leads one of the most active pages-it posts a video (on two videos-she herself, on the third-Putin plays the piano at the famous charity evening of the Federation in St. Petersburg, the money collected on it has been looking for the whole world for the second week), shares news, invites readers to social activity and participation in the Popular Control project.
Honorary Professor of the Academy of Engineering, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Agrarian Issues Nikolai Boarders, who has written out the entire working biography (mainly factories and plants), and also posted the songs of the Cossacks of Russia, welcomes the younger generation as follows: “Good afternoon, Sasha! I am very pleased that you, and your friends, being young people, are not indifferent to the life of the state and are trying to make your full contribution! And this is the main thing, but I completely agree with the statement of V.V. Putin, who was still the president, said that the unity of the state and the stability of society should serve as a powerful public association, in particular the All -Russian political party "United Russia". With the important deputy of the State Duma of N.I. Fighters ”(spelling and punctuation of the author are preserved. - The New Times).
But the very first answered Sasha one of the initiators of the Internet faction, the youngest State Duma deputy Robert Schlegel, the author of the bill prohibiting the media to write about terrorists. The title photograph of the deputy is very original: half of the face is Schlegel, half is a terminator with a glowing red eye. On the "wall" is a peppy correspondence with the frands.

With Robert, Sasha developed a short epistolary romance. At first, the young deputy doubted the reality of Alexandra (suspected that he was being played out), but nevertheless reported that his article would soon be described in one of the Internet publications, where all the United Russia software theses would be described in detail. After the second Sashin letter, in which she reported an article that was read, where United Russia was mentioned as a “party of crooks and thieves”, the deputy promised: “My article will be with answers to very different questions, in it I will formulate the things that you ask me about. The fact is that I simply do not have time to answer this question here. I can only say that it is not worth believing publications, simply because most of them may not contain true information. This, of course, does not exclude that there may be different people in the party, including not the most beautiful. ”

Dear cabinet
With the question of why most virtual adoptive united Russians are removed and do not work at all, The New Times turned to the deputy of United Russia Sergey Markov, on whose own page the function “send a message” appeared only after the correspondent call. “Imagine the purchase of a cabinet. So you chose it, paid the money, ordered, brought home, dragged it to the apartment. He is also a circle of rums, covered with polyethylene. And then the grumbling wife comes and says: "Why can't I put things in a closet?" And he has not yet been prepared. You are now a little like a wife, say. Time needs to work, ”the deputy explains. According to Markov, for many deputies the Internet is a curiosity, so special seminars will be required to develop functionality.
Someone, however, has already been developed. So, the deputy of the United Russia from the Tyumen region, the candidate of philosophical sciences Ivan Kvitka, went the farther in the development of the virtual space - he simply deleted his own photo and all the information about himself and now appears on the network under a completely philosophical pseudonym - day at night