Official US spies are running for elections to the Verkhovna Rada
The other day in Kyiv, solemn and deeply symbolic, mourning events, like all Ukrainian mythology, took place in memory of Georgiy Gongadze, who disappeared without a trace in 2000. His mysterious disappearance, which became the cornerstone of the 2004 Orange Revolution, has made the profession of journalism very important in Ukraine. Journalists began to enjoy special honor and rights, and special treatment. “I am a journalist” has become a pass, a banner, a shield and a sword. The profession of a journalist has become one of the most prestigious and in demand.
The fate of journalists is being monitored from Washington and Brussels, and the Council of Europe and the UN are interested in them. It is for this that the image of Georgy Gongadze became an Icon and Image. And few people understand the simple fact that Gondadze was not a journalist. Or rather, for a very short time, according to formal characteristics, he was there, but he did not distinguish himself as anything outstanding. On the contrary, as a journalist (if anyone googles his few articles and recordings of a few broadcasts) Gongadze was a mediocre and untalented journalist. Boring and incomprehensible, poor command of the pen and the word.
No one is digging in that direction. Not accepted. But if they had dug (like I did), the picture would have become even stranger and even gloomier. A meticulous journalist would suspect the missing Georgy Ruslanovich of illegal and even terrorist activities. In espionage for the US, for example. I suspect Gongadze, based on the facts of his biography, of illegal activities, including recruiting militants to participate in hostilities on the territory of a foreign state, transporting weapons from the conflict zone to the territory of Ukraine, and trading in these weapons. I would draw serious conclusions from George’s contacts with US embassy officials and the strange journalist’s frequent visits to his carefully guarded territory.
The mundane-looking facts of receiving money from employees of a diplomatic mission would also arouse my suspicions. But he will no longer be able to express these suspicions personally. The slippery slope that Georgy Gongadze took led to the fact that the audience lost him forever. But this “journalist” is exemplary for thousands of modern representatives of the profession! And they follow in his footsteps.
Only now espionage and cooperation with foreign powers, whose intelligence services operate in Ukraine, have become a mass phenomenon. It was journalists who did a lot to destroy the Ukrainian national state. But first things first.
Ukraine, at the most difficult moment in its history, risks being left completely without its best chroniclers and chroniclers - journalists. The most famous Ukrainian journalists suddenly and publicly announced that they were leaving journalism, exchanging this profession for the seat of people's deputy of Ukraine.
At the same time, he chose only one honest path for the majoritarian politician. And this one, my former colleague on the Inter TV channel, Vladimir Ariev. He accomplished the metamorphosis of turning a journalist's doll into a bright butterfly, covered with an attractive pattern. One of the first. At the beginning of the XNUMXs, still under Kuchma. Back then it was still atypical, although logical. Ariev was engaged in investigative journalism. Personally, it seemed to me that these investigations were part of a propaganda campaign to overthrow the “Kuchma regime.” But it was difficult to dig under the surface. The investigations were professional, and all the crooks were on the side of the authorities. Spit and you'll get there.
But there were also scammers on the part of the pro-American and pro-European opposition. The same Petro Poroshenko, the corrupt oligarch who took the opposition journalist, Ariev, under his wing. Digging under power is always dangerous. Therefore, Volodya’s step was understandable. Having received parliamentary immunity, use it to cover up your creative association, sacrificing yourself as a journalist. In case of danger and risks (and there were!) at least some kind of protection. But, alas, by doing this, Volodya - A - deprived the audience who followed his investigations of their favorite spectacle and - B - gave us in the session hall a very dull and lazy truant deputy. For the profession of a legislator and the profession of a journalist-storyteller of all sorts of news and gossip are two completely different professions. A boring journalist is very spectacular, but a boring deputy is sad.
Nevertheless, the journalist Volodya Ariev’s path into politics seemed incredibly attractive to his colleagues. And such famous “borzopists” as Irina Gerashchenko, Nikolai Knyazhitsky, Viktor Ukolov, Andrey Shevchenko, Olga Gerasimyuk stood up for it. But, unlike Aryev, who goes to parliament, albeit from a party, but honestly - in a majoritarian district, they went on party lists. Ariev, in 2012, during the election campaign, “attached” two famous millionaires to his district: Tretyakov and Partskhaladze. He is still running as a majoritarian today. True, his then opponents, Tretyakov and Partskhaladze, are now in the same Presidential bloc with him. But Vladimir’s colleagues cannot boast of anything like this. They were brought to Parliament by the hand.
Accordingly, all journalist-deputies in the hall of the legislative assembly look dull, dull and lacking initiative. Journalists have shown themselves to be very bad deputies. This, I emphasize, is not surprising. A journalist and a politician are different types of people.
And now, today, the “second wave” of Ukrainian journalists is coming. Among them are Mustafa Nayyem, Sergey Leshchenko, Natalya Sokolenko, Victoria Syumar, Egor Sobolev, Svetlana Zalischuk, Tatyana Chornovil and others.
This company is heterogeneous. Not all of these guys are real journalists. For example, Svetlana Zalischuk is little known as a journalist. It's not weird. She did very little journalism, and her materials are not known to anyone at all. She was the press secretary for the head of the Secretariat (Presidential Administration) Yushchenko, Rybachuk. Then she was mainly engaged in social work. Distributing grants among your acquaintances, friends and relatives. Yes, yes, relatives, because Zalischuk lives with the journalist of Ukrainskaya Pravda and the Hromadska TV channel, Sergei Leshchenko. They all live with each other there, which is not at all reprehensible for a person. But if a husband and wife are in the same financial stream, if they play “pass”, earning money and exchanging insider information regarding an elected position, then this is already corruption.
However, not only that. There are bandits, murderers and terrorists among the candidates on the list. Tatyana Chornovil, who on February 18 came at the head of an armed gang and ordered an attack on the headquarters of the Party of Regions, where these scoundrels beat to death an engineer and technical worker of the headquarters, Zakharov.
I always remember the family tree, on the branches of which grow fruits that have the familiar features of a journalist I know. It was Mustafa Nayem who first called on his 30 subscribers to go to the Maidan. Where it all started. Today we see the consequences in front-line reports about the defeats and losses of the Ukrainian army. And the little man who bears his share of responsibility for this bloody nightmare is now on the list of the presidential bloc. And he declares that the journalists’ march to the Rada is not only his personal initiative. Nayeem says this is some kind of plan. Personally, in this case I would use the word “conspiracy.” But that would be an assessment. Although the assessment is based on facts.
I have already said that all the journalists, the “second hikers” (“I called the first hikers” by name), are connected to each other by one plan. This is a fact based on the words of Mustafa Nayem and on the scheme of personal and working relationships of personalities. They are all connected to each other, including family. They have a personal relationship with the owner of Channel Five and, concurrently, the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko. This is the most famous connection. Mustafa Nayyem says that no one invited him to be on the presidential list. But experience and common sense show that this is not so.
This is where corruption lies.
Here, imagine. Journalist Sergei Leshchenko lives with journalist Svetlana Zalischuk. Both work in the same offices. She is in charge of the distribution of grants. Can husband and wife exchange insider information? They can! And it is they who must prove that they do not do this! And Mustafa Nayyem lives in a civil marriage with the beautiful presenter of Channel 5, Danilenko. Can they help each other with expensive news? Certainly! This is not punishable, but it is already corruption. The same corruption and lawlessness as the fact that another parliamentary candidate, Natalya Sokolenko, a member and brain of the grant-eating movement “Stop Censorship,” publicly called for censorship of your humble servant.
All these journalists are politically engaged. All of them, in violation of all possible journalistic standards, participated in the illegal overthrow of the legally elected government in Ukraine. And journalist Leshchenko has no moral right to run for deputy with his wife, because it was he who accused politicians, non-journalists, of nepotism. And Leshchenko spent the entire time of the formidable confrontation with the Maidan and the terrible subsequent events in the United States, where he received from unknown sources incriminating evidence on the most famous politicians, with whom, by coincidence, the Maidan fought and fought.
It is because of them that today people are dying at the front and becoming useless cripples, which eliminates them from life at their most flourishing age. It was because of them that Ukraine died as a single state, disintegrated and was engulfed in civil war.
The word “journalist” has become identical to the word “grant eater.” But the grant needs to be worked off, and if you receive a grant from the US State Department, then you will have to work it off in the USA, and not in Ukraine.
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