How Ukrainian experts got into trouble with Putin’s “disappearance”
Kyiv, March 16 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Ryabov) – The hysteria created in Ukraine due to the 10-day disappearance of Vladimir Putin from TV screens demonstrated the extremely low level of Ukrainian experts and media, as well as consumers of such information.
This was stated by Ukrainian political scientist Kost Bondarenko.
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“The past week clearly demonstrated how top news can be made from scratch. Millions of people believed in the death of Putin, in the coup in the Kremlin... Lesson number one: Ukrainian society has reached a level where it is not interested in the reliability of information. The more important thing is what people want to hear,” the analyst noted.
“I was also pleased with the thoughtful comments of Ukrainian “experts” who do not even roughly understand the mechanisms of functioning of the power machine in Russia. But they comment without distinguishing Vekselberg from Rotenberg too much, getting confused about the Ivanovs and sincerely believing that Luzhkov is still working as mayor of Moscow,” Bondarenko points out.
"Further. It turns out that despite the total ban on broadcasting Russian channels, almost everyone watched the Russian film about Crimea. I have noticed before that Russian political programs are in demand here - they are discussed, argued, and quoted. Question: why arrange demonstrative bans if they are easy to get around?” – the political scientist is amazed.
“And lastly: as last week showed, we still live in the Russian information field and in Russian discourse - no matter how much we deny it. That is, judging from social networks, the public is more interested in whether Kabaeva gave birth to an heir to Putin, and whether Sobchak and Venediktov tried to escape from Russia, than whether the salaries and pensions of Ukrainian citizens will be indexed in accordance with the rate of inflation? After all, I noticed this a couple of months ago, when extremely active users of social networks discussed the fall of the ruble with great pleasure rather than the more catastrophic fall of our national currency,” Bondarenko sums up.
Let us remind you that today Vladimir Putin appeared at a meeting with the President of Kyrgyzstan in St. Petersburg after 10 days of absence from TV screens. All this time, the Ukrainian media convinced that the Russian president could be seriously ill, dead, or removed from power as a result of a coup.
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