Translated material
Friday to Friday
Ksenia Larina watched TV
From Friday to Friday. The closer the voting day, the denser the ring of candidates is compressed. The electorate is driven into a corner, screams and fights off, but the party’s voice will overtake it everywhere, all possible television fields are cleared-from news to daytime talk shows 
Magic and refutation
The whole beauty of the live broadcast demonstrated this week a peaceful channel “Russia 2”, which was not noticed in political games, when Vladimir Putin himself appeared on the final hand -to -hand battle with the participation of the Russian hero and American bonfire (see page 16). Yes, our prime minister is a big fan of acute sensations, but what he had to experience at these minutes in the ring is in any comparison with a deep -sea dive, or with dizzying reactive flights. Putin was Ovistan. Through the whistle, the cries of "shame!" Were clearly heard And "Leave!" Omswistan with its own electorate is that this whistle was intended for him, now there is no doubt. But - as already mentioned - the live broadcast happens once. Therefore, in all news releases, the plot “Putin in Olympic” was hastily cleaned from extraneous sounds, and in some places the applause and the vigorous orders of the correspondent were even imposed. In other, pre -Internet times, no one would suspect anything. Today it is impossible to hide anything: and the louder the court televisors and the sovereign bodyguards tried to refute the obvious, the faster they multiplied and scattered in the vastness of the network of the testimony of the Putin's shame and the more absurd the situation became. “This is a failure,” Putin thought, and “lay down on the bottom,” giving the right to make further stupid things to his press secretary. The press secretary succeeded.
Behind the flags
The strength and irreversibility of live broadcasts these days were felt by many who got into the TV in the format of political debate. Where else could you hear an amazing slogan that escaped from the lips of Alexander Hinshtein: “It is better to be in a party of crooks and thieves than in a party of killers and rapists!” Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who was intended for this remark, also flew a couple of times “beyond the flags” to the joy of the audience of the Russia 1 channel: “The CPSU was shit, and“ United Russia ”was three times shit!” There are even more indecent quotes that will remain in the memory of eyewitnesses of this live broadcast for a long time. Actually, such a stylistic of conducting a discussion is not much different from the cattle show “Let them talk” and the “direct ether” approaching it. Therefore, the performance of Grigory Yavlinsky in the show of Vladimir Solovyov was clearly knocked out of the general series of obscenities and mutual insults. Yavlinsky demonstrated a brilliant intellectual polemic form - he spoke brightly, reasonably, smartly, without stuttering in front of an ordinary people, without the usual demagogic techniques. He was absolutely free, did not try to please anyone, and this forgotten feeling of personal innocence and personal conviction made an impression.
The voice of the people
The rain channel also connected to the election race, but unlike official sites, I decided to give the floor not only to candidates, but also to outsiders, to those who were not included in the voting ballots. The current show “For whom” with two charming leaders-Maria Makeeva and Tatyana Lazareva is an example of how to make a political dispute exciting without hysteria, scream and bazaar. The intellectual duel of Vladimir Ryzhkov (Parnas) and Sergey Glotov (“Patriots of Russia”) recalled the good old days when the outcome of political debate on TV depended on their content, on the moment of truth, on the measure of sincerity and interest of the participants. 
Another new program, apparently also attached to the elected territory, is “enough to be silent” on the REN channel - also goes live and, justifying its name, raises topics, including frankly political topics. Tigran Keosayan is a leading elegant, educated, ironic and indifferent, clearly understanding the limits of the possible. And often he invites people of restless and “suspicious” people to the studio - suddenly Ilya Yashin will appear, or Irina Khakamad, or Konstantin Borova. The conversation in the studio always occurs hot, Tigran tries to control the opposition and insure possible risks with its quick reaction to the occurrence of dangerous topics and acute turns. As a “muffler”, you can use the general whip in the studio and a sharp folding for advertising, or you can simply put a “disagreed” into another studio and see it in the “window”, including and turning it off at will. "
As a “muffler”, you can use the general whip in the studio and a sharp folding for advertising, or you can simply put a “disagree” in another studio and see it in the “window”, including and turning it off at will
“But the main danger in this program is not even people and not topics, but the audience vote, the results of which the audience sees live. And the results are more terrible than any discussions. Only in the last week it was possible to find out that the vast majority of REN spectators are ready to leave Russia forever (more than 80% agreed with the statement that emigration is a way to improve their lives), that citizens of a great power in old age can It is impossible to count on ourselves that we are crushed by bureaucratic lawlessness and that we are unlikely to be addressed to the police, and it is impossible to cope with corruption in our country: they say “enough to be silent” to him - he spoke only on the TV, by the apt definition of Zhvanetsky, “everyone goes to the country with their surroundings.” But, as it turned out, he knows how to whistle his environment.