The misadventures of a journalist, or who kidnapped democracy?
And remember, as the young poetess, the Euromaidan activist wrote: “You have a king, and we have a democracy, we will never be brothers"? That “democracy”, sung in naive poems, once again revealed its divine face. Or make a face?
On August 30, a Russian journalist, First Channel employee Anna Kurbatova was captured in Kiev. She was shoved into a car and taken away. For several hours no one knew exactly where they had taken them. Then she “woke up” by the SBU and made a statement: “So it will be with everyone who allows himself to dishonor Ukraine».
The whole “shame” of Ukraine, incriminated to Anna Kurbatova, consisted only in what she called the events of a civil war. This does not coincide with the official version of Kiev that “vicious Russia attacked Ukraine” (oh, if that were true, it would have been flying a tricolor instead of a yellow-black flag over government buildings long ago!).
However, as far as the official version of the "aggression" of Russia? About this constantly says the one who appropriated the right to be called the first person of the state - Petro Poroshenko. In fact, as it turned out, there is not even a parliamentary decision to declare Moscow an “aggressor”. There are only purely declarative statements.
But the Verkhovna Rada intends to “fix” this position in the near future. A bill was submitted for its consideration, which not only cherishes the illusion of “reintegrating individual regions of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions” (i.e., about the possible seizure of the DPR and the LPR), but also provides Russia as an “aggressor country”.
One of the deputies from the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko, Ivan Vinnik, said that the bill "is ready and will be introduced the other day." According to this “people's choice”, this project will give “the necessary foundations of the struggle on one of the most important fronts of repulsing Russian aggression is a diplomatic-political front». One might think that without the law, Kiev is not trying in every way to podgadit Moscow in the political and diplomatic arena.
However, this law has not yet been passed, but journalist grabbed on the street just because she did not recognize this very "aggression", and called what is happening "civil war." (Personally, I, however, would not agree with this definition - there was a neo-Nazi illegal coup, and Ukraine’s aggression against those who refused to live by the laws once invented by Bandera is in full swing).
Fortunately, after the intervention of the Russian Foreign Ministry and even some Western structures, the kidnapped journalist was released, but ... She was rudely deported and banned from entering Ukrainian territory for three years.
This is not the first time that the “new authorities”, who have come after Maidan, take retaliatory measures against the press staff. But this time it turned out to be such a blatant act that even in the West it was not approved.
Thus, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Arlem Dezir addressed the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine and its head Klimkin with a statement in which he stressed that practices such as expulsion of foreign journalists should be discontinued.
Previously, Europe reacted, perhaps, in the event that the data of many foreign journalists working or working ever on the territory of the DPR, got into the database of the Peacemaker website.
It turned out that the data of Anna Kurbatova three days before she was seized were also on the same site. She was included in the “proscription list” for the “incorrect” reporting of the journalist on the celebration of the so-called. Independence Day of Ukraine (this is when NATO soldiers marched in the center of Kiev!). After that, she began to receive threats. That is, you can invite NATO members to your “independence day”, but you can notify about it.
In fact, Anna, you might say, was still lucky. Despite all the adventures and misadventures, she still returned home. Although - and with some difficulties. "I stood at the border, it was very cold, I was not allowed to get dressed, now the temperature drops, I feel very good. Feels like, literally thrown out at the border, without a penny of money, without things, they did not even let me take the suitcase, without the keys to the house"She said. Fortunately, she was assisted by colleagues from the Belarusian editorial staff of Channel One.
And if she was a journalist of lesser-known media? If the Russian Foreign Ministry and international structures had not connected? It could have ended much worse. How, for example, this happened to journalists of the TV channel LifeNews Marat Savchenko and Oleg Sidyakin. When they were abducted in the area of Kramatorsk in the 2014 year, they were held in terrible conditions, physically abused, beaten.
Unfortunately, Russian citizens continue to sit in Ukrainian prisons, who are not journalists and for whom very few intervene. Such, for example, as Yevgeny Mefedov, who is in prison instead of those who have barbarously killed people in the House of Trade Unions of Odessa.
And this is not to mention the thousands of people who have Ukrainian citizenship, who sit in the dungeons of the SBU for mere suspicion of a pro-Russian position ... Because the very vaunted democracy, for which the naive onizdeti stood on the Maidan, has long been abducted and taken away in an unknown direction.
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