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The publications that used to support Beglov now criticize him for uncleaned snow. What's happening?
The publications that used to support Beglov now criticize him for uncleaned snow. What's happening?
Vyproshka: in the early 2010s, the media called this group of the Russian Kovalchuk, controlled by the Russian Bank, but now the entire list of shareholders of the company is unknown. As of December 31, 2019, 21.2 % of the National Media Group JSC belonged to Sogaz. According to information for 2015, another 26.2 % NMG was owned by businessman Alexei Mordashov.
Now the board of directors of the company is headed by Alina Kabaeva.
Vypska: this media group was created on October 1, 2019. As they say on her website, then four publications united in the group: RIA FAN, “People’s News”, “Economics Today” and “Politics Today”. Later, the group also included other publications, including Nevsky News.
The media believed that Patriot could be created for Prigozhin’s money, although the head of the media group Nikolai Storyalarchuk denied this. In December 2018, the United States included RIA FAN, Economics Today and Nevsky News in the sanctions list - after accusing the media of intervention in the presidential election.
The Ukrainian professional boxer, who took up politics in the zero, and in 2014 became the mayor of Kyiv. His sayings have become memes more than once - for example, the phrase “And today at tomorrow, not everyone can watch. Rather, not only everyone can watch - few can do it. ”
They position themselves as young Petersburgers who hold promotions that attract attention to urban problems. For example, they held a subbotnik on the gunboat and a photo exhibition on the territory of the “red triangle”, which attracts attention to the preservation of the historical buildings of St. Petersburg.
In mid -November 2021, the court arrested the head of the social enforcement department of St. Petersburg Alexei Barabanshchikov. A few days before, he was detained in a criminal case of causing property damage by deception or abuse of trust.
Since the end of autumn, Alexander Beglov has been criticized for uncleaned snow - including the media that used to support him. Among them is the 78 channel, which is part of one media holding with the first channel, and the publication of the Patriot group, associated with Evgeny Prigozhin. And in social networks on Beglov, bots massively complain-although before the Governor's elections of 2019, the bots comments were approval.
“Paper” says what is known about the mediaatak on the governor, with which it can be connected and what political scientists are talking about.
Beglova is criticized for poor snow cleaning - including in publications that were previously considered loyal authorities
At the end of 2021, Petersburg again collided with a snow collapse. Read more about what is happening in the city with the advent of winter, read in the materials “Paper” .
The fact that the authorities can not cope with snow cleaning, from the end of November, are also written by publications, which were previously considered the loyal administration of Governor Alexander Beglov in the media environment.
Among the criticists, for example, the 78 channel. Together with the first channel, Ren TV and Izvestia, he enters the National Media Group . In December, on the 78 website, materials with the headlines “Artemy Lebedev mate described the quality of snow removal in St. Petersburg” and ““ We ask for patience ”: never in St. Petersburg, and now the snow came again.” When the channel announced a vote for the main event of 2021, among the applicants were “next problems with snow cleaning”-along with Euro 2020 and the election to the Legislative Assembly and the State Duma.
In 2019, on the website of the 78 channel, one could see the following publications: “Word against business: why Beglov won the first round contrary to the forecasts of haters” or “Beglov:“ I love Petersburg and will do everything to justify your trust! ”” And during the snowy collapse of 2018-2019, the publication published materials with headlines like “Begs: we chose the correct strategy for the struggle with snow” or “Beglov called the main task in the fight against the elements”.
In VKontakte, bots are written about poor snow cleaning. Some praise the authorities, while others scold
Against the background of snowfalls, bots were activated in social networks, the “paper” noted. Almost under every post on snow cleaning, which comes out in the “Paper” community in VKontakte, comments from users who are dissatisfied with the situation in the city appear, some of them are bots.
Some users write about snow cleaning exclusively in a negative way: for example, they talk about a terrible ice in the city or about how almost suffered from an ice floe that fell from the roof. Using the Goswon service, you can see that some of the people leaves similar comments in the posts of different social networks - therefore, the resource identifies them as bots. (And therefore these comments are already deleted by "Paper." )
Bota leave similar comments in other communities. For example, one of the bots, according to the Gosvon service, left 42 reports of poor snow cleaning in the Fontanka.ru, Business St. Petersburg group and the city government from November 30.
It is interesting that some bots, on the contrary, praise snow cleaning and protect the governor. So, according to the Gosvon service, they left more than 70 positive comments under the post on the number of precipitation in the group of the St. Petersburg government. Bots write , for example, that “people do not dispose of the weather with our weather”, that the city is in order with cleaning equipment , and the management companies are to blame for poor cleaning - and the authorities regularly fined the Criminal Code.
In 2019, Bota on VKontakte also defended Beglov. “ Fontanka ” then noticed that in the snow winter 2018-2019, comments praising cleaning appeared in social networks massively - although the city was covered with snow and ice . Sometimes users even left the same text in the comments: “In our city, snow is cleaned very well, even in the yard there is no snow on the roads, we ride the asphalt.”
Especially strongly the governor is scolded by publications from the Patriot media group
Since the end of November, Beglov has been intensely criticized by the media, which are part of the Patriot media group , whose board of trustees is headed by businessman Evgeny Prigozhin.
For example, on December 16, the St. Petersburg publication “Nevsky News” told how “the city authorities instead of allocating more money for cleaning the streets, they announced a tender for cleaning from snow and ice of the summer residence of the governor Alexander Beglov” for 5.5 million rubles. And on December 8, she published the chronicle “how Smolny“ won ”the information war with a cyclone.” It tells how the governor attended the exhibition, handed the insignia and took part in the Arctic Forum, while the Petersburgers “widened through the entered yards, dug their cars and stood in“ dead ”traffic jams.
At the press conference of Vladimir Putin on December 23, the journalist of Neva News was sitting with the poster “Save Petersburg!”.
The St. Petersburg “snow” agenda is filled with federal publications from the Prigozhin media group. On the sites “Politics today” and “Word and Delo” from November 28 to December 5, almost 40 materials were released about the snowy snow in St. Petersburg-about tourists who stated that Petersburg is not worthy of the title of cultural capital due to snowy collapse, about users who compared Beglova with Vitaly Klichko , and about the actor Ivan Krasko, who was “ forced to sit at home ” because slippery sidewalks.
Since November, which are included in the same media group “People’s News”, in the news in the news about the breakthrough of the pipe with hot water, about the absence of Kovivak vaccines and a fire in a historical building in the city.
Until the fall of 2021, the media group associated with Prigozhin, on the contrary, often praised the governor from the media group
The media groups listed above from the Patriot media group, like the 78 channel, were considered loyal Beglov Media before the fall of 2021. In 2019, before the governor’s elections, the RIA FAN and Neva News, which were included in the group created later, unlike a number of independent media allowed to communicate with Beglov. They constantly wrote about the successes of the acting governor in the city’s management and covered most of his actions. In the "Neva News" one could find such headlines: “Locals appreciated the benches established on behalf of Beglov in the Malinovka Park,” “Alexander Beglov visited the first“ Sad of Sensations ”for visually impaired children in St. Petersburg or“ Beglov awarded the workers of the Baltic Plant ”.
Judging by the materials of the publications, their agenda changed after September 2021. So, in the first month of autumn on the sites of “Politics Today” and “Words and Things”, according to “Paper” estimates, almost 30 materials were published in total, in which various experts have positively commented on Beglov’s decisions. They released texts with headlines like “Political scientist Augustus explained the importance of a Beglov rehabilitation center for the disabled” or “Expert Soloveiki believes that an opening institute will help to preserve the memory of the blockade.”
Earlier to criticize Beglov, the beginning of the movement "Petersburg is the city of change." He was also associated with Political Technologists Prigozhin
In mid-December, participants in the youth movement “ Petersburg-City of Changes ” reported that Street art appeared under the Babytancura bridge in St. Petersburg with Alexander Beglov, which removes snow. In 2021, this movement criticized the governor several times: published a list of promises on its VKontakte page that Begles did not fulfill and released a video on the same topic.
The public movement "Petersburg - City of Changes" appeared in early 2019. In August 2020, the Dossier Investigative Center (now the center’s website was blocked by court decision- “Paper” ) Mikhail Khodorkovsky published documents that supposedly belonged to the employees of the entrepreneur Evgeny Prigozhin. Among others, there was a document on “St. Petersburg - a city of change” - one of his tasks was called “interception of the agenda from the opposition”. According to the document, the movement should with the help of shares support candidates for municipal deputies and strengthen Beglov’s position “due to the similarity of the election rhetoric”.
Prigogine denies the conflict with Beglov. But the events in the city could affect the interests of the businessman
Evgeny Prigozhin himself in November 2021 denied that he had quarreled with the governor of St. Petersburg. In a commentary on the Vestnik NWFO, the press service of his Concord company cited the businessman’s words, from which it followed that the Patriot media group does not lead the mediaataku to the governor.
- As for my relationship with the governor, they are exactly such as any resident of St. Petersburg. And this means that I regularly see him on TV, and in Smolny, I want to emphasize, I do not visit. Therefore, all these stories are sucked out of the finger. Just like stories about the media attack of the Patriot media group on the governor. If you analyze the media of the holding, then you will not see any media -ia. Such things are engaged in those who want to rock the situation in the city and during these swings to snatch a piece of fatter.
The Rotonda telegram channel noted that recently the businessman has “weakened positions” in St. Petersburg. Political scientist Alexander Confisakhor agreed with this in a conversation with “paper” . So, according to the results of the parliamentary elections to the city Legislative Assembly, candidates from the Rodina party did not go - the businessman openly supported them. In addition, in 2018, Prigozhin expressed interest in the reconstruction of the stable department - but the fate of the building was not determined. In May, Prigozhin noted that the city should put the building for auction.
The start of the campaign for the negative coverage of Beglov coincided with the news about searches in the city department of social catering . Last fall, St. Petersburg suppliers started talking about the redistribution of the socialist market - then the city authorities changed the rules for the purchase of food and, as a result, the same company won contests in many areas. Among businessmen, rumors began to walk that in this way the market was trying to win Prigozhin - before that, RBC wrote that the businessman became almost a monopolist in the Moscow social nutrition market. At the same time, Prigozhin himself denied interest in the field of social nutrition of St. Petersburg.
Political scientists believe that a media attack on the governor can reduce his rating, but the political situation in the city will not change
Alexander Confishor, in a conversation with the “paper”, agreed that what was happening in social networks and media similar to a media attack: “I myself saw and looked: yes, there are a lot of criticisms of the governor. Some of them, one might say, are fair - to clean the snow. <...> But there are also attracted by the ears. "
According to the political scientist, the main goal of the media campaign directed against the governor of St. Petersburg is to show the possibilities of its customers.
- [Customers want] show the resource, show the possibility of influence, make sure that they are allowed to get closer to the budget. <...> show [Smolny administration] that if they do not cooperate with them, then they will provide such a negative information agenda. <...> Try to make you reckon with yourself, value yourself, attract to joint activities.
Political consultant Valentin Bianchi also believes that the campaign against Beglov could provoke “political and economic personal insults” Prigozhin. But, in his opinion, the critic of the governor in the media is unlikely to change anything.
-Beglov, despite the fact that at the time of appointment to the city seemed a slightly informal character, turned out to be a very tough and successful hardware player and, accordingly, few people in the city allowed something to do without their knowledge. <...> I do not know if he expects [Eugene Prigozhin] with the help of the media to change the position, but it is not so accepted for us. The system of upper levels of power does not work so that it can be forced to interact in this way.
The enhanced criticism of Beglov in the media will not change the political situation in St. Petersburg, says confusion. According to him, after a change in the composition of ZakS, it is "frozen as much as possible."
Due to the media campaign, Beglov may slightly decrease the rating, but this in any case will not lead to the resignation of the governor, Bianchi adds. “The upper power is quite negative about a violation of some consensus. Therefore, when an unambiguous campaign is visible against, to succumb to this campaign, all the more, few will decide, ”the expert notes.
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- How did Beglov help become a governor? The Dossier Center has published a report on the participation of Polittechnologists Prigozhin in the elections.
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