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Murmansk officials offered a business to buy blog publications
The Government of the Murmansk Region, under the auspices of the Federal Agency for Tourism, announced a press tour for nonresident bloggers, equipped with a price list addressed to potential heroes of publications. “Talking about a difficult but happy life in the Far North” is proposed for quite tangible money - from 50 to 250 thousand rubles.
For 8 days, the guests should “ride the large and small cities of the Kola Peninsula”, as well as to “honor the memory of those who died in the Glory Valley, go to dinner in the family of an officer of the Northern Fleet, go to a salmon fishing, go down to the mine” ... Voyage is dedicated to the upcoming anniversary of the region, under which budgets have already begun to drink.
The principle of selection of participants is entertaining: this, for example, is a certain moderator of the group in “Odnoklassniki” named Ruslan (the surname on the booklet was modestly lowered), a young lady with a page on Instagram named Nastya, however, not a fish, but a bright one (about herself, “a blonde with habits of a good person”). The following is Streammer Julia Moskvitin (Google, alas, is silent about her), three professional travelers from the LiveJournal, Photocor TASS, the correspondent of the federal channel and the odious blogger Andrei Manzolevsky, with all his might, opposing the corrugation of the West on Russia.
It is comfortable to resist the West in the Murmansk region, so to speak, so to speak: judging by the work program of stay, which is at the disposal of the “new”, they carry, feed and entertain, which, in essence, is not a sin at all, especially since the project is supported by sponsors, that is, it is not entirely laid to the budget. But solving the strategic problem, the organizers obviously had to break their heads. Therefore, on the final route, the famous, but not very happy teiriber-the homeland of Leviathan, for example, did not enter, and instead of it appeared in the booklet ... the building of the Elbian Philharmonic ... It was not that there was no Philharmonic in Murmansk-there is, and quite decent. But for the most beauty, the one that in Hamburg seemed somehow more solid.
The search for “rays of good” is a long-standing idea of the Murmansk governor: a couple of years ago, at a press conference, Marina Kovtun persistently asked the journalists to publish “good news”.
When the words did not help, the PR managers had to organize several Clon sites specializing only in positive content, however, the filling was outsouring, as a result, some Samara students who were poorly guided in the polar geography went out for reporters-the sites delivered so much hysterical fun that when the projects turned off, it was even a pity. In the real local agenda, finding positive news is not so simple. A sharp reduction in the subsistence level does not add joy even to the rather service news issues of regional media sitting on contracts. So you have to look for partners on the side.
In search of the happiness of the guests to the Sami - the indigenous people, in search of happiness. Saami has less than 2 thousand in Russia, they regularly complain about discrimination and inaccessibility of the due benefits. For example, just recently, one of the famous catchy lakes in the Lovozersky district, where Sami live compactly, Umbozero de Jure was transferred to another area. Now Sama is not entitled to fish there - the “national” quota of fishing can be sold only in the “territories of compact residence”, read, in the reservation.
However, the Saams, who just the other day complained of the head of state in the next letter, bloggers are unlikely to see: in order not to violate the general harmony, they will take them to the “Sami village” 30 km from Lovo -Zero -Ethnographic Complex, which these same Saams constantly criticize for inaccuracy and fake.
They will also be taken to production: ports, plants ... And here the most interesting begins. Under the heading “Integration” on the last page of the booklet about the press, the price list is placed: “The publication of the selected blogger is 50–100 thousand rubles, traveling to the enterprise with a series of subsequent publications-250 thousand rubles, a large banner in each post of each blogger-150 thousand rubles ...” The status of a “partner of the project” is clearly targeted-from half a million rubles. By the way, judging by the available papers, the partners were found - these are Murmansk trade and fish ports.
As for the press tour, one thing is not clear with it: why do officials work as producers to Nastya Light or Ruslan from “Odnoklassniki”, helping them find customers for paid texts? And will the ordered publications be marked as advertising? Otherwise, the case smells of violation of the law "On Advertising" and a commercial bribery.