"New Gazeta" analyzed the "scientific" criteria, according to which the Russian rating of national traitors was drawn up

The New Gazeta reacted to the Politonline website, published at the end of March, offering a detailed story about those who "assigned themselves the right to determine who is a patriot in our country." According to the newspaper, the leaders of the publication included in the Pravda.ru media holding were supervised by the deputy head of the presidential administration Vladislav Surkov and received tens of millions of dollars through the "master bank".

Recall, on March 31, Politonline presented a rating of 20 media publishing "anti -Russian" materials. This list includes the Echo of Moscow radio station, Rain TV channel, New Gazeta, The New Times, Newsru.com, Radio Liberty, RIA New Region, Slon.ru, RBC, RBC Daily, Vedomosti, Snob and many others.

“The basic criterion for the formation of the rating was the frequency of mentioning keywords and phrases on unique information reasons, political memes, names, surnames, names of politicians, as well as economic, political and military terms with an analysis of content for positiveness, negativity or neutrality,” the explanation said to the presented TOP-20.

It was stated that the analysis of the content for emotional coloring and tonality was carried out using expert systems. “If you explain“ on the fingers ”, then the use of the word“ anxia ”,“ Anshlus ”or“ green little men ”, a comparison of the current politicians with the Nazis (including a comparison of the person),“ aggression ”in the context of Russia's actions, calls with the use of the word“ sanctions ”,“ isolation ”, texts with a positive assessment of the actions of the“ right sector ”, the Maidan, etc. Negative references, and “polite people”, “unification”, “support of Crimea”, etc. - positive, ”the Politonline article.

It should be noted that it has recently been known that Voentorg intends to register the “Polite People” trademark and has already applied to Rospatent, RBC reported.

"The request not to use the words" green men "

- Lida vasilevskaya (@vasilevskaya_rt) April 17, 2014

“All this pseudo -scientific Beliberd implies the intense work of the Politonline employees' thoughts, because it is still unable to determine that there is an occasion in our propaganda, emotional coloring and tonality. And the Russian person is able to pay money. Therefore, people, not cars,” commented on the new newspaper.

In his investigation, Deputy Director of the New Gazeta editorial and publishing house Valery Shiryaev notes that Politonline is part of the Pravda.ru media holding, whose editorial policy is distinguished by a "clear pro-government or a tendency to sharply critical assessments of the activities of the opposition, independent media, and in general all who are located on the outside of the Kremlin wall."

Shiryaev recalls how in 2011 it turned out that the resources of Politonline, Pravda.ru and a number of others were supervised by the deputy head of the presidential administration Vladislav Surkov and financed through the Master Bank, as well as a number of public and expert organizations.

"According to the request of the State Duma deputy Vladimir Ulas to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the total amount of payments through the Master Bank in favor of" controlled by the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration V.Yu. Surkov "structures annually amounted to up to $ 90 million," the article says.

Shiryaev also calls the most “interesting operations” Politonline in connection with the fall of the rating of Vladimir Putin in 2009 and the defense of the Khimkinsky forest, and also cites the biographies of the resource head of Vadim Gorshenin, the creative director of Politonline Marina Yudenich and a number of employees of the publication.

"The media, which can be pointed out to the Kremlin today as enemy, almost no longer in Russia, the list has not left for two dozen. But before the" Politonine ", as the heir to" enemies of the people "" Pravda ", brilliant prospects: it is time to start ranking the personal enemies of the Fatherland, call them by names. There are half of the Russian Facebook and a living magazine in line. Run - I don't want to! " - summarizes Valery Shiryaev.

Who initiated the search for national traitors

The discussion and active search in Russia of the National Districts began after this term proposed in his message to the Federal Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin. On March 18, speaking about the policy of Moscow regarding the referendum in the Crimea, Putin said : “We will clearly encounter external opposition, but we must decide for ourselves whether we are ready to consistently defend our national interests or we will forever surrender them, to retreat for no one knows where. Some Western politicians are already suffering not only by sanctions, but also by the prospect of exacerbation of internal problems. I would like to know what they mean: the actions of a certain fifth of Columns - various kinds of “national traitors” - or expect that they can worsen the socio -economic situation of Russia and thereby provoke people's discontent? We consider such statements as irresponsible and clearly aggressive and will react accordingly to this. ”

As journalist Auder Muzhdabaev recalled, the term "National Distributors" was first used by Hitler in the book Mein Kampf. "Enemies of the people" - and that would sound better, after all, Stalin we have an "effective manager." But Stalin did not dare to quote and in search of a synonym they got in the brown. They probably thought - they would not notice. No, noticed. And they were horrified. We are not the Germans. In the press - German, not ours - the scandal is brewing. National Districts / Nationalverrator. This term for Putin’s best speech of his “brilliant speechwriters” (as they, it seems, is now called) from Hitler’s best book - “Mine Campf”. Excellent work, comrades, pulls on the Order of the Iron Cross, ”Muzhdabaev wrote on his blog on the website of Echo of Moscow .

Well, citizens national traitors, get ready! Everything is just beginning for you!

- Alex rychkoff (@alexrychkoff) April 15, 2014

The expression "Fifth Column" belongs to the Franksist General Emilio Mola, who in 1936, during the Civil War in Spain, told the journalist that four columns of his troops were moving towards the Republican Madrid, and the fifth is waiting for a signal in the city itself, clarifies The New Times .

"The same can be said about the notorious" national prescriptions. "The meaning of this expression is simple: the so-called collaborators, that is, people who work with the occupation regime. This term was applied to the followers of Peten in France or to the Vlasovites in Russia. He would probably be appropriate for Prime Minister Axenov in Crimea. But with what occupiers they are working on Pacific in Russia? If we are talking about the Americans, then it should be recognized that Russia has already been occupied by them, ”Mikhail Yampolsky argues in his article, conducting analogies with the phenomenon of" totalitarian speech. "

And the journalist Arkady Babchenko offers his explanation to the words of the President of the Russian Federation, arguing that the National Districts are "about us with you." "National traitors ... you know about who is it about you and you, this is me, the veteran of the two wars shown by my country, according to the president of my country, now - the national traitor. These are all those who were on the march . All those who, in their missing, are still working in independent media. Or worked earlier - have not yet been closed. Everyone who does not want war with their children. All who are for their own. Free elections and all those who are just trivial for freedom.

@Nickvaluev @belogolovcev if the songs of Tsoi wrote the CIA, and we listened to them, then we are national traitors!

- bearded man (@da_platonov) April 18, 2014

@AlexGen0359 The most reliable way to maintain a package rating at 100%, the execution of disagreements ...

- Tequila (@tekilaua) April 6, 2014

Orientations on national traitors have already hung

It should be noted that during the “Direct Line” on April 17, Vladimir Putin did not mention the national traitors and, moreover, did not agree with the assumptions about the emergence of internal bitterness in society.

"You know, I honestly do not feel any special change in the situation, some special intensity even in connection with the events in Crimea and Sevastopol. Yes, there is a struggle of motives, the struggle of points of view, but no one interferes with expressing them, they do not grab, do not plant, do not spawn anywhere, to the camps, as it was in 1937. People who express their point of view, they are glory God, healthy, are engaged in their professional activities, but the fact that they meet a different position and rejection of their own position, you know, some of the intelligentsia is not used to it just that they say, this is the truth in the last instance, and when they see something in response, this A violent emotional reaction, ”Putin answered the corresponding question of the leader of the“ civilian platform ”Irina Prokhorova.

Recall that a week ago a banner appeared in Moscow with images of opposition figures and an explanation: "The fifth column. Aliens among us." Photos of a banner with the faces of Alexei Navalny, Yuri Shevchuk, Ilya Ponomarev, Andrei Makarevich and Boris Nemtsov are published on the website of "Echo of Moscow" .

And already this week in Simferopol and Sevastopol, stands with photographs of "agents of Western influence" were hung, 66.ru reports. Aleksey Navalny, Boris Nemtsov, Mikhail Kasyanov, Ilya Ponomarev, Andrei Makarevich, Natalia Sindeev, Vladimir Ryzhkov, Dmitry Gudkov, Gennady Gudkov, as well as participants in the punk group Pussy Riot Nadezhda Tolokonnikov and Maria Alekhina, were enrolled in the National Representatives. In the center of the stand there is a drawing "Uncle Sam". Rustem Agdamov posted photos of stands on his blog , adding that people in military uniforms approached the author of the pictures and explained that "you can’t take pictures here."