Agitation? No, a respectable newspaper

I remember when the newspaper The Competitor was created, it was positioned as a kind of Kommersant of the Siberian flood. Like, everything is serious, analytical, independent. Of course, the Competitor had not succeeded in all this before, but last week showed the true face of the publication. 600 thousand copies, free delivery to the boxes of Krasnoyarsk residents (the only competitor in this field is AllAllAll), but most importantly, the content. Of the 8 pages, 5 are given to Vladimir Putin, especially the spread:



the rest of the pages, as it were, are not about Putin.... but on one page other candidates throw mud at each other, but not a word about GDP.
and then a large article on the page about the dangers of white ribbon shares, which is replete with such analytical passages:




It is not reported who paid for 600 thousand of this respectable newspaper, and why? After all, everything connected with Putin is not propaganda. This is a story about his work. Sometimes in pictures.

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