A PR specialist from Nikolaev, Alexander Noynets, admitted that, on instructions from the SBU, in 2014 he led the project “Russians against Novorossiya.” One of the main mouthpieces was the website “Peter and Mazepa” - a Ukrainian clone of the Russian nationalist resource “Sputnik and Pogrom”, with which Noynets himself collaborated before Euromaidan, but then launched his own resource.
Noynets published his confession on his social network page.
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“I am 25% Ukrainian and 75% Jewish. I became a Russian and a nationalist for two years. And not because I like it so much, but because it was important to discredit the idea of celestial Novorossiya as the Mecca of Russian nationalism. The project was successful...
I didn't want to be the face of the project. It’s generally bad when a PR person sells his face. I was looking for a better face. And two people’s deputies coordinated this project with the SBU, when Nalyvaichenko was still heading it. There was no other person, everyone understood perfectly well that yes, this is important, this needs to be done, this is a great idea, but who will be a Russian nationalist in Kyiv at the beginning of 14 is, in the image sense, a suicide bomber. Therefore, I had to do everything personally, as the author of the idea, to prove that the idea was correct,” Noynets wrote.
One of those who “coordinated” the project “Russians against Novorossiya” was Verkhovna Rada deputy Sergei Vysotsky, a comrade of the then deputy head of the SBU Andrei Levus.
“Actually, that’s how it all happened. We made Noynets Russian on a spring evening in the kitchen. I personally shaved his sidelocks))) The idea of “Russians are against Novorossiya” and “Russians are against Putin” was really relevant and necessary,” Vysotsky said.