According to the law of the Mykola genre, Veresen must now also report to the SBU
Mykola Veresen, who splashed water and demanded that political scientist Alexander Semchenko leave the studio for calling Petro Poroshenko an illegitimate president and the ruling regime a junta, is a clear example of the degradation of Ukrainian journalism. According to the law of the genre, now Veresen must also “snitch” on Semchenko to the SBU.
This opinion was expressed to PolitNavigator by Russian radio host Armen Gasparyan.
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“Unfortunately, we are witnessing dementia of the journalistic profession in Ukraine. No one needs journalism or analytics in itself. There is only agitation and propaganda in use there.
Despite the fact that they are carrying out “decommunization,” they themselves use the most clumsy examples of work both in the Soviet Union and in the West during the Cold War.
Therefore, the position of the presenter Mykola Veresnya should not surprise anyone. He did exactly what was required of him today. I don’t know how convincing he is in this role, but it is absolutely clear that the current Ukrainian political elite does not accept any other behavior. There can only be such a conversation - to react to any fact that is unpleasant for you only in this way. It’s good that he didn’t write a statement to the SBU.
As for political scientist Alexander Semchenko, he said nothing fundamentally new. He uttered exactly the words that the expert community utters all the time, that the war has been going on for 3,5 years, that Ukraine is doing nothing to stop the civil war, that it is unacceptable to kill people in Donbass simply because they have different political views, that we need to take care of our own economy, which has been turned into ruins, and so on. That there is no aggression of the Russian Federation, because not a single piece of evidence of this has yet been presented.
But this, unfortunately, is the level of today’s political science discussion in Ukraine, where any reasonable argument will be followed by splashing water, insults, and so on. This is an indicator of the health of civil society,” Gasparyan said.
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