One of the oldest magazines in Russia, Ogonyok, which was recently announced to cease publication, has become a victim of the system that this publication has been promoting since the late 1980s.
This opinion, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, is expressed in his blog by Kiev journalist Andrey Manchuk.
“As you know, this publication was published back in the times of Tolstoy and Lenin, but I remember it at the end of the eighties, when my parents subscribed to the brainchild of Vitaly Korotich. We read the magazine from cover to cover, absorbing stories about the crimes of the communist regime and admiring the prosperity of free capitalist countries abroad. And so the “Spark” went out - because it was extinguished by the invisible hand of the market,” writes Manchuk.
“The employees of Ogonyok were informed of their dismissal “in connection with the optimization of the organizational and staffing structure.” The conclusion suggests itself: there was no place not only for people, but also for the editorial staff of the magazine in the optimized economy of the Kommersant Publishing House,” representatives of the creative team report.
“Their good faces are sad, although everything is fair - the magazine was optimized by the very system that it advertised, advocated, promoted for so many years. Post-Soviet capitalism is devouring its fathers,” sums up the Kiev journalist.