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Rainbow calibration. Why is Mikhail Zygarya camming out symptomatic
This did not happen late, not early, but just right - as it seems, more than once it happened in the fate of Mikhail Zygar, before the military reporter of the Kommersant newspaper, the chief editor of the Rain television channel, the documentary, the author of several near political bestseller, the connoisseur of the Kremlin backstage, one of the popular characters of the secular Moscow magazine, and now the Columonist of the influential German journal Spiegel , leading the Russian-speaking television channel "East-West", a YouTuber talking to the sages of global significance.
Mikhail Zygar announced his homosexuality, making the subject of open public discussion that part of his identity, which everyone he wanted before. An informational occasion was the conclusion of a marriage in Portugal with an actor from Russia by Jean-Michel Shcherbak. Talking about this on Instagram , the journalist was concise in words, effectively illustrating his current status with photographs from the family album: “We got married (probably say“ got married ”correctly). Love, freedom, however, happiness. It's time to start liberation with ourselves. ” The spouse of Zygar is slightly quarrel: he also mentions attempts to fit into “generally accepted rules and commandments” (speech, as obviously, of Russia), and his former fear of “get to hell”, and about the Orthodox mother.
The event is impenetrable, given the weight of Mikhail Zygar in the Russian-speaking media world. Here he is-the author, who is customary to look back at, which is already indicated by the Antonymy “Nezygar”, which an anonymous political telegram channel (almost 400 thousand subscribers) received the name. Zygar is not so much a person as a media resource. This property at the end of last week was emphasized by the Ministry of Justice of Russia. Once again, replenishing the list of “foreign agents”, he noted the journalist not as a private person, allegedly financed by Russia hostile to the West, but as a “media-line agent”, putting in one row, say, with the star of YouTube, political scientist Yekaterina Schulman (also, by the way, living now in Berlin).
According to Zygar, his books "In Moscow bookstores, it was already recommended not to put in prominent places." Given the overabundance of the documentation, which promises the title of “foreign agent” in Russia, it is logical to assume that this title is an unambiguous indication of the authorities of the inappropriateness of a public figure in Russia. Having violated the contradictoryly formulated “norm”, a person runs the risk of falling on trial.
In other words, the gap with the Fatherland did not begin the scourge. The current speeches of the Russian authorities about the need for a complete ban on “LGBT propaganda” (quotes are intended, this is a chimera, the designation of a non-existent one)-the radicalization of the opposite side attaches. Always designating himself as part of the global world, as an actor and spokesman for Western values, Mikhail Zygar in the current circumstances, probably, had to identify his Quir-identity-an ordinary effect for Europe and America, but still exotic in the countries of the non-unbearable socialism.
This public gesture is important in that it again means an unobvious plus of state homophobia - in the long run, it paradoxically is beneficial to softening morals
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