Khabarovsk himself

The Far East should talk about its first person problems

The revitalization of the policy that happened in Khabarovsk this summer showed the whole void of political elites: the parties simply fled in different directions, as soon as they opened before them, a non -illusory opportunity to communicate with “their” voters. Party flags never appeared in city squares - literally not one. If you can imagine an absolutely spontaneous protest, then the Far Eastern events became his visual example.

Meanwhile, the common interest is that the regional social movement could express itself, formulate and state rational requirements. Even the authorities themselves are interested in this: the events of the last two weeks demonstrated that tens of thousands of people who went out into the street simply have no one to enter into a dialogue. The authorities worked for so long to destroy the general information space for the whole country, which now itself has lost the idea of ​​people who go to Khabarovsk streets. Do not consider the “representation of people” delusional replicas about the “paid protest”. The very scale of what is happening excludes any production and manipulation.

The dialogue could contribute to a decrease in tension. But fantastic ideas about the region are rather a means of “noticing problems under the carpet”. Let's admit:

The Far East for Moscow journalists is Narnia, only unattractive and devoid of their own person.

This is not because this face is not, but because it is not of interest to them. I say this with complete sympathy for metropolitan journalists: to construct regional identity is not their work at all.

Most of them will write about “unresolved social problems”, broken lanterns (they will find such - they are in any city) and about unbearably high prices for chickens. They will write everything that you can write about any city in the Non -Black Earth Region - and leave. I’m not even sure that these texts were not written before arriving in Khabarovsk ... Or that they could not be written at all without leaving here-these are just standard riverkryaki “About a social”, made with a company aggressive intonation.

And Khabarovsk will remain with its individual problems and stay with them further.

Myself! In my short note, this is a keyword - himself: a subject with his own face and endowed with his own, individual internal content. Just let's agree that if the Khabarovsk residents are subjects, and not a collective object of external management, then they must have their own original voice. Oh, what a terrible fate this is - when, as it were, a “your voice” says the metropolitan correspondent! Imagine, this is approximately as if Mark Dakaskos in the cinema suddenly spoke in the voice of Leah Akhedzhakova. It is clear that voiceing, it is clear that the actor of voiceing may not even distort the initial remarks of the actor too much ... But, damn it why is Mark Dakascos open on my screen, but I hear the voice of Lia Akhedzhakova? I hope this metaphor is sufficiently bright.

I would like to emphasize - I am personally grateful to every journalist who conscientiously illuminates the Khabarovsk protests. However, an outside look, even the most valuable, will not be able to replace the human monologue in the first person, “from themselves”, from people who were born in the Far East and live here. And I think that the reader has already understood what I mean: I want to say that the formulation of the regional agenda and its broadcast outside the region is work primarily for a local thinking and writing community.

Building a common information space for the whole country inevitably requires that the regional press has the opportunity to “grow” to the federal level. The situation in which all the "federal media" are based in Moscow alone, in fact, it is a rupture of the Russian -language information space. It turns out that such a “federal” press is gradually turning into a regional - Moscow one, since it “sees” only the information “field” of the city of Moscow, the maximum of the nearest Moscow region. The rest of the country for the Moscow Regional Press is the terra incognita, and everything that is behind Baikal will repeat is Narnia.

But there was a time when quite high -quality media were based in Khabarovsk.

One has only to recall the publications hleb.asia, Amurburg, Rigm Info. The Khabarovsk division of the Kommersant Publishing House had a good reputation. Only those people who live, act, write, think and feel in their hometown - only they can formulate a direction for urban public life! Only they are able to “draw” for the region his own unique face and present his URBI et orbi. The metropolitan journalistic landing will never replace local public life. The voice of the Khabarovsk protest is the voice of our same, local, Khabarovsk dialogue - a dialogue between fellow countrymen, the results of which we, sooner or later, will be ready to tell everyone.

In order to “be good”, we must first agree here with each other about the principles of joint activities in the Far East. But when this process will be fruit-then the metropolitan journalists will also be able to say something substantial about us. This will happen when we ourselves will be ready to talk about ourselves meaningfully.