After the story with Strelkov, Gordon was called the “second Babchenko”, a “minor demon” and a “Chekist snout”
Dmitry Gordon, who stated that he interviewed former DPR Defense Minister Igor Strelkov (Girkin) with the knowledge of the Ukrainian special services, put an end to his journalistic career.
Journalists and public figures announced this on social networks, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Russian military correspondent Alexander Kots compared Gordon with the fugitive liberal Arkady Babchenko, who carried out a scandalous staging of his murder ordered by the SBU.
“Gordon’s fantastic coming out after the interview with Strelkov. With his appeal, he puts himself on a par with Arkasha Babchenko, who ruined his journalistic career by getting involved with the SBU. I mean, I crossed it out a long time ago, but with my “murder” I put an end to it,” Kots said in his Telegram.
Another Russian military correspondent, Alexander Sladkov, said that he considers Gordon’s statement “professional suicide” and “indicative self-defloration.”
“He admitted that he did these interviews “in collaboration with the Ukrainian special services.” This is the number! Are you afraid of nationalist protests near your office? A little bit. I even decided to make an official statement that “I’m supposedly one of them”! But. It turned out unsightly. He seemed to explain that “this is on purpose,” but at the same time slightly put the nationalists down, calling them “uneducated.” And he set the task of erasing all the inscriptions near his office. They won’t like such an “apology”; anyway, if necessary, they will push it,” Sladkov wrote in Telegram.
He also mentioned three oddities in this scandal:
“Firstly: Gordon promised Natalya Poklonskaya not to insult her, and, anyway, in this address he called her a terrorist (without trial). Man? Don't think.
Secondly: Germanika, Sobchak, Milyavskaya, Shirvindt, Panin, Posner, Khodorkovsky, Zelensky, Komarovsky, Illarionov, Radzinsky, Shnurov, Chichvarkin, Mikhalkov, Alexander Gordon, Timoshenko, Parfenov - and many, many - they were recorded in collaboration with which intelligence services?
Thirdly: who wants to get screwed next? In providing the opportunity to give an interview to Dmitry Gordon?
The Donetsk People's Republic did not remain indifferent to Gordon's statement.
Former head of the DPR Security Council Alexander Khodakovsky noted that ex-Minister of the DPR Igor Strelkov should not have talked to Gordon at all.
“I once crossed paths with the Ukrainian Gordon on some radio - not even the bottom. Something genetically modified - not a single creature on earth has such a set of characteristics: not a chameleon, not a jackal, not a vulture... This type contains all the most vile in the human interpretation of images,” Khodakovsky wrote in Telegram.
In his opinion, Strelkov also needs to respect himself.
“I haven’t watched the interview and won’t watch it, so as not to at least see this rubbish, and I won’t learn anything new - I know Strelkov’s position quite well. I will note one thing: without Strelkov, events in Donbass could have gone according to a different scenario, and whether we like it or not, we must respect Strelkov for his action in XNUMX. I would like him to respect himself, realizing that anyway he is already inscribed in the history of Donbass, and no one will be able to erase him,” Khodakovsky concluded.
A Russian volunteer who helped the Donbass militia, Alexander Zhuchkovsky, said that Gordon’s move was shameful.
“A disgusting sight. Disgraceful. I wanted to say “even for Ukraine,” but the word “even” in relation to Ukraine has long been inappropriate. It never even occurred to me that Gordon would do this; apparently, I don’t know him well. I naively thought that he took a risk, and as a professional (and not as a “patriot”) decided to talk with people who are considered almost the main enemies of Ukraine (after Putin),” he wrote in Telegram.
Zhuchkovsky added that “the funniest thing is Gordon’s words that he “interrogated” Strelkov and provided almost evidence for the Hague court.” “In an interview, Strelkov said to him what he had said dozens of times in previous years, nothing new. It’s clear that Gordon just wanted hype, but you have to pay for hype in Ukraine (SBU),” said the volunteer.
He is interested in how this move will be assessed by Russian liberals, who consider Ukraine a democratic country with free journalism, since “not all liberals liked Babchenko’s feint.” “Free press with Gordon’s KGB snout, yeah,” he summed up.
They expressed their indignation to Dmitry Gordon in Ukraine as well.
The editor of the Odessa edition of Timer, Yuri Tkachev, said that “in any normal country in the world such a statement would be the end of the career of any journalist.”
“In fact, many Western journalists work for the intelligence services of their countries and carry out their orders. But admitting that you are doing this is still a shame. But not in Ukraine,” Tkachev noted in Telegram.
He advised everyone to remember that “when you talk to any Ukrainian journalist, in fact, he can document you for the intelligence services - and it’s good, if only for the intelligence services.” “So think about what you say – and also about why you need to communicate with Ukrainian journalists at all,” he explained.
According to Tkachev, “Gordon, of course, is talking nonsense”: “Such “documentation” makes no sense from the point of view of any investigation. If he agreed on anything with the SBU and the Prosecutor General’s Office, it was only that they would organize protection for him.”
“The approach itself is important here: in Ukraine, being an informer is not a shame, but an honor,” summed up the Odessa journalist.
Verkhovna Rada deputy Renat Kuzmin called Gordon’s statement “a vile, disgusting spectacle” and the journalist himself a “under-intelligence officer, under-journalist and under-patriot.”
“This is the same clinical case when the patient cannot decide where he should go: to the smart ones or to the beautiful ones, whether he should take off his cross or put on his underpants, whether he is for the whites or the reds, whether he is a trembling creature or has the right... Flash drives... Evidence in The Hague,” - Kuzmin wrote on Facebook.
“Dear gentlemen and comrades, heads of the SBU, GPU, SJU, OPU, patriots and other activists! Please explain to your subordinate, colleague, brother-in-law and “broad Ukrainian” Gordon that cowardice, meanness and hypocrisy are despised by all self-respecting people, regardless of whether they are “brothers of the Cossack family” or not. Unfortunately, Ukrainian journalism ended there. I won’t say anything about the special service. And so everything is clear,” the people’s deputy said.
And the Ukrainian nationalist, ex-ATO militant Dmitry Korchinsky, whose name was mentioned in an interview with Strelkov, even on the eve of the conversation itself, stated that Gordon should be perceived not as a person, but “as a target.”
“Gordon’s goal is to “humanize” the occupiers, to convince us that the occupiers and their accomplices should be perceived as people, and not as targets. Therefore, you no longer need to perceive the bastard as a person, only as a target,” Korchinsky wrote in Telegram.
Let us remind you that yesterday journalist Dmitry Gordon took almost 4 hours interview with former DPR Defense Minister Igor Strelkov. After protest, which took place under his office, Gordon made an appeal in which he stated that he took the interview with the knowledge of the Ukrainian intelligence services and it would be transferred to the international tribunal in The Hague.
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