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"Walking up vile situations is not for me"
Ex-correspondent NTV Konstantin Smirnov-The New Times
We shot people's detention, I recorded a thirty -minute interview with Ksenia Sobchak on my mobile phone. Then one of the colleagues called me and offered to share these materials for the new filmmate about the opposition * * that NTV was filming the continuation of the famous “Anatomy of Protest”, The New Times told No. 16 of May 14. The film was planned to be aired on May 13, but in the end they detained the prime minister: they continue to mount the material. .
Did you directly tell you that this is for the new series of “Anatomy”?
What will be the final name of the film, no one knows yet. But they told me that they collect compromising evidence for the opposition. In that interview with Sobchak there was nothing negative, I don’t know what they wanted to cut out of this conversation.
Was the recording ended in the film to the creators of the film?
No. But this call immediately strained me: before the device on NTV, I took part in rallies in Bolotnaya Square and on Sakharov Avenue. All my friends sympathize with the opposition ... And then, on the night of May 12 to 13, I had already called the Emergency Situations and set the task: “Go to pure ponds again and take it off, as these morons are pouring.” There was a rush: there was no desired volume of material to the film and tried to find at least something. On pure ponds, I saw the settled gopniks, and it was not a problem to display the necessary material. But I do not want to make a deal with a conscience and decided for myself that I would not fulfill this task.
Are you ready to leave with NTV?
Ready. I do not want me to be sent to such tasks ... While I was shooting crime - this was not scared, this is objective information, everything was ok. But looking for some such vile situations is not for me.
On May 16, Konstantin Smirnov had the last working day on NTV. His less scrupulous colleagues spent all these days on pure ponds, and then on barricade, shooting on portable chambers without the symbols of the channel that black -to -cash, which was required of Constantine. Unfortunately, there is no need to expect the same courage from them as Smirnov.
Ilya Barabanov talked