Dmitry Kiselev: "Now Ukraine is a virtual country, and our portal is real!"

It became funny already while reading a press release. “In the press center of Russia Today, Dmitry Kiselev will present the new media project of the Ukraina.ru agency, the purpose of which is“ Strengthening Russian-Ukrainian Relations ”. In recent months, Russian-Ukrainian relations journalist Dmitry Kiselev actively strengthened every Sunday on the Russia-1 television channel, where he compared Ukraine with a falling airliner and talked a lot about the fascist residents in the west of this country. For this, Kiselev in Kyiv is called only “Goebbels” and the rumors are dissolved that he allegedly ended up in a hospital with a heart attack. But now he is not only the host, but also the head of the new news agency “Russia Today”, who assigned the role of the main ideological rope of the Kremlin in the world - and in Ukraine, respectively, too.

Despite the fact that Kiselev got into the sanctions lists of the European Union, the journalist came to the presentation of the new project, as if he had just returned from the rest, say, Bruges: a non-willed style velvet jacket, light greening trousers and socks of amusing green shade. It was possible to suspect one of the main sovereign TV presenters of Russia in it, only according to the strap on the clock (in the photo above), which is painted in the colors of the St. George ribbon. Although a runaway search on the Internet gives an even more bizarre remark: this type of watch straps are called Nato Strap .

At the presentation of Ukraine.ru, Kiselev was accompanied by pro-Russian journalists from Ukraine, who, due to Maidan’s rampant, were forced to leave for Moscow and were taken to contentment by the Rossiya Today agency.

- I want to say thanks to Dmitry Konstantinovich Kiselev and your agency for being sheltered. I also wish other immigrants that are located in Russia also have the same good patrons! - Journalist Alexander Chalenko thanked for the hospitality, after which he decided to explain the difference between the state of affairs in Russia and Ukraine.

- You can’t imagine how reporters in Ukraine have to! Here I see opponents who support the Maidan and perform at Russian talk shows! I see how they disagree with the position of Russia, with referenda that took place in the east of Ukraine. They act with such heat and fervor, but I see: they are not afraid of anything here, although they are in opposition to the Russian mainstream. And I was recently named on the Channel TVI FSB leader! And there they said that it was necessary to crush the fifth column in Ukraine! So they said about me: "Crush this reptile!" - frank Challenko.

Typically, half an hour later, the head of the Association of Orthodox experts, Kirill Frolov, who had come to the presentation, pointed to me and was explaining to the Ukrainian journalist Chalenko: “Yes, this is“ elephant.ru ”, our fifth column! It is necessary to close them, I have been talking for a long time. ” However, noting that I paid attention to him, the Orthodox expert took a step towards me and confidentially remarked: “But you are not offended! I am sincere. "

But the main Ukrainian star of the event was the journalist Alena Berezovskaya. As a matter of fact, the main part of the presentation consisted of a show of her documentary film about the Ukrainian nation. The film, of course, is outstanding - in a week it will be demonstrated by Russia 24, but Berezovskaya herself is no less amazing. Four years ago, Ukrainian publications went around her joint photos with Viktor Yanukovych. It was claimed that the journalist is his mistress. But Berezovskaya convincingly refuted these speculations , explaining that she was simply friends with Yanukovych.

Victor Yanukovych and Alena Berezovskaya

Until the age of 22, she entered the journalistic pool, and then became the editor -in -chief of the social magazine Kyiv Times.

Her documentary, also called “Ukraine.ru”, is based in a fictitious quote from the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck: “The power of Russia can only be undermined by the department of Ukraine. It is necessary not only to tear off, but also to contrast Ukraine with Russia, to suffer two parts of a single people and observe how the brother will kill his brother. ” This is the main idea of ​​the film: the Ukrainian ethnic group was invented by the Germans and introduced on the outskirts of Russia in order to split the territory of the Russian state; Germany was engaged in this in the First World War and the Great Patriotic War. And now, according to the author, the Europeans continue the vile business of the Germans. Berezovskaya herself in the frame periodically reads poems with intonation either the old schoolgirls at the last call, or the State Duma deputy Irina Yarova. Sometimes she poses against the backdrop of strong men in military uniform and promises that the East of Ukraine will still stand for itself and win the Nazis. The artistic composition is completed by the soundtrack from the songs of the ensemble "Lube".

The screening of the film “On Strengthening the Russian-Ukrainian Relations” ended with an attempt by Orthodox expert Kirill Frolov to attach and clumsily mother of the operator who stumbled between the rows of spectators. Now finally it was possible to move on to communication with Dmitry Kiselev. He was extremely diplomatic, not at all like himself on the TV, and did without emotional assessments. Kiselev said that the Ukraina.ru portal will aggregate the most interesting information about this country, “will not conduct fiery passion” and will allow Ukrainian journalists who had to leave their homeland due to recent events. Kiselev’s restraint somehow did not correspond to the event that the Orthodox expert Frolov immediately tried to fix. He took the microphone and almost hidden on his knees.

- I support you! It is completely impossible and dangerous to save the Ukrainian idea! I wish “Ukraine.ru” to finish with the Ukrainian idea! - The expert announced, after which he tried to tell how to deal with a harmful idea. But Kiselev interrupted him, gently hinting that he had no task “ending the Ukrainian idea” and the portal will collect various points of view. To somehow reassure the ardor of Frolov, the general director of Russia Today invited him and his experts:

- Cyril, we invite you and your experts to publish on our resources. - Kiselev, apparently, did not know that the association of Orthodox experts consists of just one person. That is, Kirill Frolov himself.

- But will there be problems with the Ukraina.ru domain? After all, the same site for ten years ago was already creating an effective policy of Gleb Pavlovsky, - an elderly journalist, impressed by the film just seen, was worried about the new portal.

- It is unlikely. Our domain seems to be called differently. And what was the site of that site? It seems like an ukraine through "C" was written? - asked Kiselev.

- What?

- Which Spelling?

“I don't understand ...” the journalist shook his hands.

- Well, Spelling!

- Writing in the name of the site what was it? - I prompted the journalist.

“Ahhh,” he said with understanding. - I don't remember!

In turn, I could not help but ask Dmitry Kiselev if he liked the professional of the cinema Alena Berezovskaya and how he reacted to the idea that the Ukrainian people were invented by the Germans. True, for the author of the film and the thought of the Germans, the friends of the expert Frolov immediately stood up, screaming at me from their places that there were no Ukrainians a hundred years ago. But they again reasonably interrupted by the ideologist of Russian television.

- This is an author's film. This is not an encyclopedia of the Ukrainian people. And the author has the right to emphasize. There are many films about Ukraine - and this is one of them, ”Kiselev answered carefully.

To my second question about how he reacted to the fact that the former editor of the neo -Nazi magazine “Russian Image” Dmitry Steshin was in the lists of Putin’s rewarding for Putin, Kiselev also answered flawlessly: “Putin has the right to reward anyone.”

A little shocking director of Russia Today was able to afford only at the end of the official part of the event, when journalists began to approach him individually.

- And how to negotiate that the Kyiv authorities do not turn off the water supply to the Crimea, if we do not recognize them?

- What do we not recognize the authorities? - Kiselev answered with surprise.

- Well, Ukraine seems to be.

- There is no Ukraine. Now it is a virtual concept, a virtual country. Want to live in a virtual world - please.

- How then it turns out that you do not have Ukraine, but do you have “Ukraine.ru”?

- And “Ukraine.ru” is a real portal. Not about the country, but about the territory that was under the control of this country. Now this is Failed state (the failed state . - Slon ), ”Kiselev rejected easily, corrected the velvet jacket and went to give an interview to VGTRK.