Ksenia Sobchak recorded a video message to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko because of his decree on blocking access to a number of Russian social networks and services, the Dozhd TV channel reports.
Sobchak was outraged by the decision of the head of the Ukrainian state and accused him of being at war with his own people for three years. The TV presenter notes that everyone who threw the war on social networks lost.
"Only a political suicide can fight against social networks and memes. Because you are alone, and half of your people, who are famous for their recalcitrance and humor, sit in these social networks. The people who organized the Maidan, volunteer battalions, through social networks, are tools of fascist propaganda that you banned. The people who paid for the "Revolution of Dignity" with thousands of lives. And you poured this dignity into one decree cesspool", she claims.
The presenter recalled that the WhatsApp messenger was developed by a Ukrainian who sold it for an amount equal to half of the entire budget of Ukraine. Now he is in no hurry to return to his homeland.
"It's not the first year that federal talk shows in Russia begin with the fact that it's bad in Ukraine. Their topics began to dry up, and now you generously poured them a bunch of sweets from your Roshen company. Now those who in Russia want to ban "Telegrams and the Internet in general give advice to Ukrainians on how to get around your bans. The ratings of the most downloaded programs in Ukraine include TOR and VPN, which allow you to easily jump over your clumsy decree, which your lazy and corrupt officials will execute," Sobchak criticizes the Ukrainian president.
In conclusion, she noted Poroshenko's "incredible ability" to create enemies for himself from previously loyal citizens.
"By your decree, you rallied international human rights activists, the Azov Battalion and Russians who sympathized with you, who one day declared you an enemy of freedom of speech. And when you need to call some European leader, he will ask for a short reference about you. And it will be written - this is the one who did not let the Russian disabled singer to Eurovision and banned social networks. And Merkel or Macron will ask the secretary - tell him to call back later. Better never, "says the TV presenter.
Ksenia Sobchak commented on this decree of the Ukrainian president, which has already caused a wave of discontent and criticism.
Dear Petr Alekseevich Poroshenko!
Thank you for everything you have done for our quilted jackets, for Alexander Zakharchenko, Zakhar Prilepin and Dmitry Kiselev. You can now add them as friends on VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. But here's the problem - you banned both VKontakte and Odnoklassniki in your Ukraine.
Historical experience shows that everyone who threw the war on social networks lost. Now, having deprived 25 million Ukrainians of the opportunity to communicate, you have lost 25 million votes. So far, technically, these networks have not been closed, and you can admire how you look there and how your country looks now.
Only a political suicide can fight against social networks and memes. Because you are alone, and half of your people, who are famous for their rebelliousness and humor, are sitting in these social networks. The people who organized the Maidan, the volunteer battalions, through social networks, are tools of fascist propaganda that you have banned. The people who paid for the "Revolution of Dignity" with thousands of lives.
And you poured this dignity into the cesspool with one decree.
You say Odnoklassniki, VKontakte and Yandex are FSB offices. Well, yes, you sing along well with Vladimir Putin when he calls the Internet a CIA project. Ballistic missiles, if anything, were also invented by the Nazis. It doesn't matter who invented it, what matters is how to use it. Let me remind you that all investigations about Russian troops in Crimea, about who shot down the Malaysian Boeing, were made mainly on the basis of VKontakte publications.
I know one Ukrainian invention in the field of Internet communications - Jan Kuma's WhatsApp. He sold his creation for $11 billion. But for some reason Yang is in no hurry to return to your country, whose budget is only twice that amount.
The sacrifices made by your country, the patriotic upsurge that we here in Russia envied - you could turn into economic and political reforms, as Boris Yeltsin did in 1991. Instead, you have been at war with Russian artists for three years, and now with your own people. A worthy adversary, isn't it?
It is not the first year that federal talk shows in Russia begin with the fact that things are bad in Ukraine. Their topics began to dry up, and now you generously poured them a bunch of sweets from your Roshen company. Now those who in Russia want to ban telegrams and the Internet in general are giving advice to Ukrainians on how to get around your bans. The ratings of the most downloaded programs in Ukraine include TOR and VPN, which allow you to easily jump over your clumsy decree, which will be executed by your lazy and corrupt officials.
What kind of law is this that does not even spell out punishment? Those who will bypass the blocking are not even threatened with an administrative article - then, explain why it is? Do you seriously believe that with a piece of paper with a coat of arms you can defeat the people who ousted Yanukovych and brought you to power? I'm afraid nothing will save your rating - neither the ban on Yandex, which is registered as a Dutch company, nor other extravagant decisions.
You have an incredible ability to create enemies for yourself from previously loyal citizens. With your decree, you rallied international human rights activists, the Azov Battalion and Russians who sympathized with you, who in one day declared you an enemy of freedom of speech. And when you need to call some European leader, he will ask for a short information about you. And it will be written there - this is the one who did not let the Russian disabled singer to Eurovision and banned social networks. And Merkel or Macron will ask the secretary - tell him to call back later. Better never.
Sonya Tarasyuk, RIA Novosti Ukraine
The decree of President Petro Poroshenko on blocking Russian websites and social networks caused a mixed reaction in the world. General Secretary Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland believes that this is contrary to the principles of freedom of speech. Solidarity with the EU and the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch.
German Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer stated that such sanctions do not correspond to European values.
But nothing provoked such an angry reaction among Ukrainians as the critical appeal of the Russian host Ksenia Sobchak to President Petro Poroshenko regarding the ban on social networks. A wave of criticism fell on Sobchak, saying that this is not her business at all, and she has no right to criticize our president. I did not like the tone and appearance of Sobchak.
Scandalous treatment
Ksenia Sobchak on May 20 made an appeal to Petro Poroshenko. In a four-minute video, she criticizes the Ukrainian president for banning Russian resources Yandex, Odnoklassniki and VKontakte.
In her appeal, Sobchak expressed her conviction that a radical step to ban Russian websites would ruin Poroshenko's career, because only a "political suicide" is capable of such a decision.
"Dear Petr Alekseevich Poroshenko. Thank you for everything you have done for our quilted jackets, for Alexander Zakharchenko, Zahara Prilepin and Dmitry Kiseleva…. Historical experience shows that everyone who threw the war on social networks lost. Now, having deprived 25 million Ukrainians of the opportunity to communicate, you have lost 25 million votes. So far, technically, these networks have not been closed, and you can admire how you look there and how your country looks now" Sobchak said.
In her opinion, Poroshenko, by his decree "dumped the Revolution of Dignity into a cesspool."
“The sacrifices made by your country, the patriotic upsurge that we here in Russia envied, you could turn into economic and political reforms, as Boris Yeltsin did in 1991. Instead, you have been fighting Russian artists for three years, and now with your people.A worthy adversary, isn't it?... You have an incredible ability to create enemies for yourself from formerly loyal citizens.By your decree, you rallied international human rights activists, the Azov Battalion and Russians who sympathized with you, who one day declared you an enemy of freedom words. And when you need to call some European leader, he will ask for a short reference about you. And it will be written there: this is the one who did not let the Russian disabled singer go to Eurovision and banned social networks. And Merkel or Macron will ask for a secretary - pass it on, to call back later. Better never," summed up Sobchak.
Angry reaction
Sobchak's appeal caused a wave of not just criticism, but a real tsunami of insults against her.
Sobchak was sharply criticized by the editor-in-chief of the site LB.ua Sonya Koshkin. In her opinion, Sobchak has no right to criticize our Ukrainian president at all.
"What, seriously? A Russian journalist (if she is three times "liberal")? I am writing in quotation marks, since all their "liberalism" is up to the first "our Crimean". Poroshenko comments, speaks out about his electoral prospects? Yes? Listen, this is our President! If he is thrice wrong, wrong, and in general all such and such, but we, only we - the Ukrainian people - will judge this!"- writes Koshkina.
The journalist was also outraged by Sobchak's attempt to assess the losses of Ukraine during the Maidan, because "Russian liberals" cannot understand this.
"It's not for 'Russian liberal journalists' to evaluate the victims of the Revolution of Dignity; it's not for them to philosophize about volunteer battalions. These people didn't bury their brothers. They didn't raise money for the army. They didn't help migrants. They didn't volunteer in the east. left Ilovaisk. We didn’t get benefits for veterans. We didn’t buy thermal imagers.”, - states the editor-in-chief.
Russian journalist Evgeny Kiselev, who has been working in Ukraine for a long time, said that it was funny for him to watch Sobchak's appeal. He also did not like her appearance.
“I don’t know about you, but it was really very funny for me to watch Sobchak’s appeal to Poroshenko. I immediately remembered:“ This thing is stronger than Goethe’s Faust. ", in this whole story, turning the obvious things inside out ...", - Kiselev wrote in a blog on the Ekho Moskvy website.
He noted that Sobchak "was funny" not only to her appearance and peremptoryness.
“The funniest thing, it seems to me, is the inappropriateness and inadequacy of the genre in which the popular TV presenter spoke. Be that as it may, for comparison, just imagine how Ksenia Sobchak addresses, say, US President Trump with criticism about his decision to fire FBI Director James Comey. Or for some other reason - to the President of France, the Prime Minister of Great Britain? Or - in a deep neckline - reads a moral to Angela Merkel because she received Poroshenko, a strangler of freedom on the Internet, in her country residence, "- sharply expressed the journalist.
The people's deputy from the BPP, journalist Mustafa, did not stand aside hiring. He did not like Sobchak's words that it was through banned social networks that Ukrainians organized the Maidan.
"Specifically, Euromaidan, to which she so insistently refers, began, was coordinated and quietly managed by Facebook and Twitter. I think that little was heard about VK in Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt and other countries of the "Arab Spring", Nyem writes.
In addition, the people's deputy called Sobchak's appeal pretentious, and also advised "to take care of yourself."
“Take care of yourself… There are enough influential journalists and experts in Ukraine who regularly lay out the whole scale of the problems of the economy, corruption, courts much more competently and not in such general phrases. on Federal channels, or - like, for example, Ksenia herself, are forced to survive on the Internet, " Nyem emphasized.
In a harsh and obscene form, the Deputy General Director of the ATR TV channel, Aider, also spoke to the Russian presenter. Muzhdabaev.
“The children are no longer here? Excellent. You can say it like it is. Sobchak, like her kind, these Russian “liberals” who do not close their mouths to labor,<…>, is just /stupid bad people/ and/or moral freaks, that's all", - Muzhdabaev called both the TV presenter and her TV channel.
Based on materials from open sources on the Internet
Philip Bobkov
Army General. Graduated from the Leningrad school of military counterintelligence Smersh. In the state security agencies since 1946. Since 1969, he headed the 5th department of the KGB of the USSR, which was engaged in the protection constitutional order and led the fight against ideological sabotage and dissidents. Since 1983 he was deputy chairman, and since 1985 - first deputy chairman of the KGB of the USSR. He left the service in 1991.
In 1992, a graduate of the Smersh school headed the analytical department of the Most group of oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky. Bobkov worked at Most until the second half of 2001. Gusinsky himself had already lost control of the NTV channel by that time and had been living abroad for more than a year.
Alexey Kondaurov
Major General. In 1971 he graduated from the Faculty of Economic Cybernetics of the Moscow Engineering and Economic Institute named after M.V. Ordzhonikidze. Since 1973 in the state security agencies. In recent years, he headed the Center for Public Relations of the FSB.
In 1994, Kondaurov headed the information department of the Menatep group of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, from 1998 to 2003 he headed the analytical department of the Yukos oil company. In addition to analytics, Kandaurov worked with representatives of the country's key political forces. After the arrest of Khodorkovsky, he spoke in defense of the disgraced oligarch. In 2003 he was elected to the State Duma. In 2014, he signed a statement demanding to stop supporting the self-proclaimed republics in the south-east of Ukraine.
Oleg Osobenkov
Colonel General. Graduated from the Faculty of International Economic Relations of MGIMO. In the state security bodies since 1969. He headed the Department of Analysis, Forecast and Strategic Planning, since 1996 he served as State Secretary of the FSB of Russia.
In 1999, Oleg Osobenkov was appointed Deputy General Director, Head of the Personnel Department of Aeroflot. He was on the board of the airline. It is believed that Obenkov's task was to rid the company of the influence of Boris Berezovsky. Osobenkov was removed from the board of Aeroflot in 2005.
Yuri Kobaladze
Major General. Graduated from the Faculty of International Journalism of MGIMO. Since 1972, he worked in the first main department of the KGB of the USSR (foreign intelligence). As a journalist, he traveled to the UK, Malta, the USA, France. In 1991, he headed the press bureau of the Foreign Intelligence Service, and for six months he was deputy general director of ITAR-TASS.
In September 1999, Kobaladze became the managing director of the Renaissance Capital investment company. From 2007 to 2012, he was Managing Director for Corporate Affairs, Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of X5 Retail Group. Since 2012, he has been a consultant at UBS investment bank.
Alexander Zdanovich
Lieutenant general. Graduated higher school KGB. In the state security bodies since 1972. He served in military counterintelligence, in the center of public relations of the FSB. In February 1996, he became acting head of the TsOS FSB. In November 1999 he was appointed head of the Department of Assistance Programs of the FSB.
From 2002 to 2012 - Deputy Chairman of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company for security issues. From 2012 to 2014 - Advisor to the General Director of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.
Yuri Yakovlev
Army General. In 1975 he graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute with a degree in Experimental Nuclear Physics. In the state security bodies since 1976. In 2008, he headed the economic security service of the FSB.
In July 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed him. Two months later, Yakovlev was appointed deputy director general of Rosatom for state policy in the field of security in the use of atomic energy for defense purposes.
Oleg Feoktistov
FSB General. Graduated from the FSB Academy. Since 2004, he headed the 6th service of the Internal Security Directorate of the FSB, responsible for the operational support of criminal cases, deputy head of the Internal Security Directorate of the FSB.
In September 2016, he was appointed head of Rosneft's security service and joined the company's board. On March 10, Rosneft President Igor Sechin confirmed that Feoktistov had left the company. “This is correct information, he returned to the service,” Sechin said.
The country has a professional anti-mafia team. All the most high-profile criminal cases of recent times related to corruption and fraud were conducted by the group of FSB General Sergei Korolev. In early July, Sergei Korolev received under his command the Economic Security Service (SEB) of the FSB"In the fight against the Russian Cosa Nostra"
Behind the most high-profile criminal cases of recent times is a team of FSB officers led by General Sergei Korolev, who until recently headed the Department of Internal Security of the department (USB) of the FSB, and in early July received the Economic Security Service (SEB) of the FSB under his command, said
RBC.
In the early 2000s, Korolev served in the third department of the Economic Security Service of the UFSB, which he oversaw law enforcement. In those days, they looked at it almost like a pension, Fontanka wrote the other day.
A few years later, news reached Petersburg - Korolev became an adviser to the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov, while he oversaw the Main Directorate of the General Staff, which is often called the GRU.
Soon, unexpectedly for everyone, Korolev became the head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the FSB of Russia. In the police environment, security officers are called watchmen. It turns out that he guarded the watchmen.
Under the Queen, the Sixth Service became one of the most significant units in the CSS. According to RBC's interlocutor, close to the USB, it was created in 2008, it includes only about 35 people. The service is headed by Ivan Tkachev, writes RBC.
Of course, before detaining governors and other high-ranking officials, the head of the service coordinates the position with FSB director Bortnikov. And with such questions it is already necessary to approach the president. The resolution should be the same everywhere: “To work”. Signature, date. Which, in fact, means - in Lefortovo, Fontanka notes.
The Economic Security Service is one of the key units in the FSB, explains retired FSB Major General Alexander Mikhailov, a member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy. According to him, in the USSR, in the face of confrontation with the West leading role played by employees directly involved in counterintelligence, but in recent years the importance of the SEB has increased markedly.
Officially, the structure of the SEB FSB is not disclosed. As Novaya Gazeta wrote, the Economic Security Service includes seven departments: for counterintelligence support of the credit and financial system (department "K"), industrial enterprises, transport, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Emergencies, the Ministry of Justice, for combating smuggling and drug trafficking, organizational and analytical management and administrative service.
From 2004 to 2008, the SEB was headed by Alexander Bortnikov, who moved from this post immediately to the post of director of the FSB. Yakovlev became Bortnikov's successor in the leadership of the SEB. On July 8, Vladimir Putin appointed a new head of one of the key divisions of the FSB, the Economic Security Service. They became Sergei Korolev.
The most notorious criminal cases of the Sixth Service
May 8, 2015. Police Lieutenant General Denis Sugrobov, who until February 2014 headed the Main Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, was detained. Recall that he was arrested on charges of organizing a criminal community, provoking a bribe and exceeding official authority. His deputy Boris Kolesnikov was also arrested, who soon committed suicide.
September 2015. The head of the Komi Republic, Vyacheslav Gaizer, was arrested on charges of fraud and organizing a criminal community. 19 people are involved in the Gaiser case, including the ex-deputy of the State Duma from Komi Yevgeny Samoilov.
March 4, 2016. Governor Alexander Khoroshavin was detained on Sakhalin, he is charged with taking a bribe in the amount of $6 million.
March 14, 2016. Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Pirumov was detained in Rostov. The total amount of damage imputed to him and other defendants is more than 100 million rubles. In addition to Pirumov, the director of the St. Petersburg company BaltStroy, Dmitry Sergeev, and other responsible persons were arrested in the so-called "restorers' case".
End March 2016. Arrested "St. Petersburg businessman number 1" billionaire Dmitry Mikhalchenko. He has been charged with smuggling. According to investigators, elite alcohol was bought at European auctions, which came to Russia under the guise of building sealant.
According to RBC, the Mikhalchenko case is not the only case of smuggling handled by CSS. At the end of 2015, management became interested in the case of ULS Global. Among the defendants in the investigation was the head of the 7th department of department "K" (it deals with counterintelligence support in the credit and financial sphere) of the Economic Security Service of the FSB Vadim Uvarov.
The connection with Mikhalchenko was reflected in the career of one of the country's most senior security officials, the director of the FSO, Yevgeny Murov.
Murov worked for several years together with Mikhalchenko's business partner Nikolai Negodov in the regional department of the FSB. Murov, Mikhalchenko, Negodov lived in the same village on the shores of Lake Valdai in the Novgorod region.
At the end of May, by decision of the President, Murov was dismissed. The press secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov, explained Murov's dismissal by his advanced age, reminds RBC.
June 24, 2016. In a Moscow restaurant, while receiving 400 thousand euros, the governor of the Kirov region, the former chairman of the Union of Right Forces, Nikita Belykh, was caught red-handed.
July 13, 2016. The court authorized the arrest of Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy), who is charged with extortion and organizing a criminal community.
On the night of 18 to 19 July. Detained were Denis Nikandrov, Deputy Head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, Mikhail Maksimenko, Head of the Main Directorate for Interdepartmental Cooperation and Internal Security of the Investigative Committee, and Alexander Lamonov, his deputy, Head of the Internal Security Department.
July 26, 2016. Investigators found about 10 million rubles and hundreds of thousands of dollars and euros during a search in the house of the head of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation Andrei Belyaninov. Searches were also carried out in the offices of Belyaninov's deputies Andrei Strukov and Ruslan Davydov. During the searches, items and documents relevant to the investigation of the criminal case on alcohol smuggling were confiscated.
As it became known today, July 28, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the resignation of the head of the Federal Customs Service Andrei Belyaninov.
We note, following Fontanka, that Khoroshavin, Gaiser, Belykh are the governor's power. Sugrobov is a policewoman. Pirumov - ministerial. Mikhalchenko - capitalist. Citizen Shakro is a mafia. Today we reached the Investigative Committee and the Federal Customs Service.
Changes in the FSB
In June, the head of department "K" (part of the SEB structure), Viktor Voronin, the immediate supervisor of Vadim Uvarov, lost his post.
The USB had information that Voronin was connected with Mikhalchenko, two interlocutors close to the CSS management told RBC. Voronin's resignation was based on the results of an internal audit, which was carried out by the CSS employees in the SES.
Shortly after the first audit, Homeland Security began a re-audit. Upon its completion, the head of the SEB, Yuri Yakovlev, resigned.
A few weeks before the resignation of Yakovlev, Korolev became the main contender for his place, interlocutors in the special service told RBC. It was he who was appointed head of the SEB on July 8.
Now the FSB is undergoing reshuffles, but already at the level of middle-level operatives of the Economic Security Service. According to one of RBC's interlocutors in the FSB, close to the leadership of the special services, it is still difficult to assess the scale of layoffs, but it is already known that about ten people will lose their posts, about half of which will be additionally checked in connection with possible violations of the law.
Another interlocutor of RBC in the special service said that at least one person from among the SEB employees left the country. According to another RBC source, one of the operatives of the Economic Security Service was fired on July 8, the day the decree on the appointment of a new head of the SEB was signed.
