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Novaya Gazeta is a well-known Russian socio-political publication that has been published since 1993 and has been specializing in investigative journalism since its inception. The publication has repeatedly found itself at the center of scandals, including because of the more than dubious statements of its employees, and also because of the appearance on its pages of unverified or subsequently recognized false information.

Who pays for the music

According to information from open sources, a controlling stake in Novaya Gazeta (76%) belongs to the staff of the publication, 14% belongs to a notorious businessman (in particular, a public fight followed by serving a criminal sentence) Alexander Lebedev, 10% - to the first and only President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev.

At the beginning of the 2000s, there was talk that the foundation had a hand in financing Novaya Gazeta George Soros, and according to Izvestia, the publication also received "sponsorship" from the government of the Netherlands. The data was given for 2015, when the downed Malaysian Boeing was mentioned in more than a hundred Novaya publications and most of these materials were anti-Russian in nature, Izvestia reports.

Also, judging by information from open sources, one of the financial donors of Novaya Gazeta is the co-owner of Yota Devices Sergei Adoniev.

Thinning ranks

Novaya Gazeta was founded in the spring of 1993 by a group of journalists who left Komsomolskaya Pravda. At the origins of the newspaper were Dmitry Muratov, who led the publication until 2017, Pavel Voshchanov, Akram Murtazaev, Dmitry Sabov and others.

He gave the first money to the newspaper Mikhail Gorbachev, who, with part of the proceeds from his Nobel Prize, bought eight computers for Novaya Gazeta.

In November 2017, Dmitry Muratov left the post of editor-in-chief, now the editor-in-chief of Novaya is Sergei Kozheurov.

Yes, Novaya Gazeta has long been considered a leader in investigative journalism. Yes, the list of her journalists' awards does not fit on two printed pages. But, alas, in recent years this publication has increasingly become a haven for losers, and the “old shots” are slowly, as they say, fizzling out.

slightly dead

The most striking example of exactly what kind of people have found and are finding refuge in this publication is a former participant in two Chechen campaigns, a once good war correspondent Arkady Babchenko, which today waters Russia and Russians with square abuse from Kyiv. But most of all, Babchenko, of course, "became famous" for his imaginary death. This story not only covered Babchenko with indelible shame. The noise will subside sooner or later, the media will forget about this story, but Arkady Babchenko will never again work as a journalist either in Novaya Gazeta or in any decent publication. Now he will not be allowed to go to a single hot spot even for a cannon shot. For potential employers, he is now a man who has lost confidence, a loser.

Unpleasant Episode

Novaya Gazeta has always actively commented on the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine. At the same time, the publications of the publication often featured "information" about the alleged "presence" of the Russian military there (recall, Moscow has repeatedly stated that it is not a party to the conflict in the Donbass and that there are no active Russian military personnel there).

Once a journalist from Novaya Pavel Kanygin, commenting live on the Ukrainian channel on the situation in the Donbass, he did this while, presumably, in a state of drug intoxication. Pavel started talking, behaved inappropriately, involuntarily jerked his head and hands, which, according to experts, could indicate the use of certain chemicals by him. Moscow narcologist Nikolay Vlatsky in a comment to the Reedus agency, he said that Kanygin's condition, judging by the video, "is 99% similar to drug intoxication."

Note that Kanygin himself denied the fact of drug intoxication and claimed that he had a cold.

Expulsion of Khudoberdi Nurmatov (Ali Feruz)

Journalist for Novaya Gazeta Khudoberdi Nurmatov(alias - Ali Feruz) caused a lot of problems for his employers. He illegally arrived in Russia in 2011, and since 2012 he has been in the country without any identification documents at all. According to him, he “lost” his expired passport of Uzbekistan and for five years he was unable to restore it. Since 2015, Nurmatov has been working at Novaya Gazeta without any documents or a work permit, which predictably attracted the attention of Russian law enforcement officers, who began the process of extraditing him to his homeland, Uzbekistan.

According to RIA Novosti, Nurmatov at one time held radical Islamist views and even recruited people into the Islamist underground. According to the publication, in 2008 Ali Feruz was involved in a case of recruitment to the extremist organization At Takfir wal-Hijra banned in the Russian Federation.

In August last year, the Basmanny Court of Moscow ruled to expel Nurmatov from Russia to his homeland for violating the regime of stay in the country. During the hearing, right in the courtroom, the journalist attempted suicide, as, according to his friends, he was so afraid to return to his native Uzbekistan. As a result, Nurmatov was met halfway and allowed to leave for a country of his choice.

Later, the Basmanny Court of Moscow found the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta guilty of illegally employing a foreigner and fined the publication 400,000 rubles.

"Gay" theme

Journalist for Novaya Gazeta Elena Milashina well known in the Chechen Republic. But recently, serious claims have arisen against her in connection with the alleged “persecution” of LGBT persons in Chechnya. Elena was repeatedly accused of bias.

It got to the point that in 2017 the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Shamsail Saraliev sent deputy requests addressed to the Prosecutor General, the head of the Investigative Committee and the head of Roskomnadzor with a request to check Novaya Gazeta for extremism and inciting ethnic hatred in Milashina's article "Panic and sabotage in Chechnya."

Saraliev found signs of violation of the law in the phrases from the article:

“Victims of the anti-gay campaign in Chechnya were not only Chechens, but also Russians,” “later they began to search for this person and killed him already on the territory of Russia.”

According to the deputy, in these fragments of the material there is a contrast between people on a national basis, as well as an attempt to kindle ethnic hatred and cast doubt on the territorial integrity of Russia.

Earlier - in May 2015 - the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs announced its intention to go to court for spreading slander if Elena Milashina does not tell who exactly advised her to "carefully monitor personal safety." Then the journalist stated that while in Chechnya, she allegedly received threats.

At present, Elena Milashina travels quite calmly to Chechnya and no longer accuses the Chechen authorities of "excessive attention" to her person.

Has Europe gone nuts?

One of the pillars of Novaya Gazeta Julia Latynina repeatedly drew sharp criticism with its more than dubious statements.

Latynina was criticized for her racist views and contempt for the lower strata of society, even by representatives of the liberal camp. Yes, a journalist Andrey Loshak called Latynina's views "wild and obsolete".

Earlier - in October 2010 - representatives of the Russian Muslim community accused Latynina of Islamophobia and inciting interfaith hatred.

Many critics point to sloppiness, juggling of facts, and outright errors in Latynina's articles and books, as well as in her live statements (she regularly speaks on the Ekho Moskvy radio station).

Hater of Crimea

Politics editor at Novaya Gazeta Kirill Martynov also "famous" for scandalous statements. So, in July 2014, while on vacation in the Crimea (just reunited with the Russian Federation), Martynov wrote a series of rather rude comments on the microblog on Twitter about the state of the peninsula and about the people who rest there.

Here is an example of Martynov's statements: "The peninsula is occupied by cattle", "Zhlobstvo, hatred for one's work, the desire to cheat a sucker, inactivity, fear of the boss."

Martynov is or was married to Antonina Martynova (Fedorova), a figurant of the so-called "Novgorod case", which was widely discussed in 2007-2008 in the then active LiveJournal.

Fedorova was accused of attempted murder of her three-year-old daughter Alice from her first marriage. At present, the whereabouts of the woman and her daughter are unknown, since July 2008 they have been on the federal wanted list. The disappearance was preceded by Antonina's failure to appear at the hearing, at which the jury delivered a guilty verdict. Martynov himself claimed that his wife and adopted daughter were allegedly kidnapped by unknown people.

In January 2017, the poet and publicist Lyubava Malysheva wrote a sharp article for the Radio Liberty website, in which she sharply attacked Martynov for his supposedly anti-feminist views, and also reminded him of the Novgorod case. According to Malysheva, in the story of the alleged attempt on the child, Martynov was on the side of people who "knew little about his past," which helped him to take a significant post in Novaya Gazeta.

It seems that individuals with deviant behavior, with strange, to put it mildly, views, and simply losers who find it difficult to take root in any other publication are often attached to Novaya Gazeta.

Patriarch Kirill delivered a sermon in which he actually called for the dismantling of the secular state in Russia. Boris Vishnevsky is right when he wrote in his blog in hot pursuit: this is a direct attack on the Constitution. In particular, the first chapter of the Basic Law, which enshrined the priority of human rights - the right to life, freedom of speech and freedom of conscience.

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church called the corresponding theses of the Constitution "the heresy of human worship" and called on Orthodox Christians to resolutely fight against such heresy - for the sake of the triumph of their own faith.

If earlier some representatives of the church questioned only Article 14 of the Constitution, which enshrined the secular nature of our state, now believers are ordered to consider humanism to be their enemy. Humanism is declared synonymous with theomachism.

The task set by Cyril is not an easy one: it is necessary to cross out the entire modern history of mankind, starting at least with the French Revolution, and return to the “correct”, that is, the medieval world, where God and church rituals were at the center of human life.

The patriarch has his own tactical reasons for making such statements. The final part of his sermon was devoted to justifications for a recent meeting with the Pope in Havana, which was sharply negatively perceived by orthodox conservatives inside the ROC. Kirill argues that Christianity exists today in an extremely hostile environment, and in the interests of survival, believers, whether Orthodox or Catholic, must unite their efforts in the fight against godless "human worshipers."

Here he makes a remarkable substitution. According to the patriarch, "the most terrible problem of our time is the persecution of Christians," which are taking place in Syria, Nigeria, India and Pakistan. However, in none of these countries attacks on Christians are connected with the “heresy of human worship”, which the head of the Russian Orthodox Church attacks. On the contrary, "human worshipers" in most of these regions are trying to stop religious fanatics who destroy "heretics" - in this case, Christians themselves are considered heretics worshiping a false god. In those regions of the world where secular regimes are not strong enough, there are, in fact, new religious wars, but Patriarch Kirill, for some reason, believes that secular humanism is to blame for this.

Very comfortable position, especially considering that if Cyril from the pulpit accused Islam of persecuting Christianity, there would be a terrible scandal. But now everyone can attack the secular Constitution in our country - there will be nothing for it.

The second detail, concerning the same phrase about “the most terrible problem”, clearly demonstrates how the thinking of a person who has abandoned “human worship” works. The patriarch's sole concern is the suffering of Christians, which, moreover, is so convenient to use in his own political demagogy, which means that all other problems can be considered "less terrible." This is a completely consistent conclusion from the speech of the Patriarch on March 20: not all people are equally valuable and not all suffering is equally worthy of our attention, since we are no longer humanists. For example, a less terrible problem compared to the events in distant Nigeria will be a war between Orthodox peoples in Ukraine. Terrorism, if it concerns the atheists in France and Belgium, is also not so terrible. Finally, if in the first place you need to take care of the salvation of the soul, of God's law, then the growing Russian poverty is not such a terrible problem.

This is the key ethical problem with patriarchal preaching. If Kirill were a hermit living in a skete, if he, like the Serbian Patriarch Pavle, traveled to his flock by public transport, his criticism of the modern world would sound convincing. But The head of the Russian Orthodox Church is a rich man and a hedonist. Exquisite food, executive cars, palaces, staff of servants and protection provided by the state are not compatible with criticism of human worship.

It is unlikely that anyone will believe the story that your own luxurious life on earth is just a specific form of service to God. Looking at the famous photograph of Patriarch Kirill, where an expensive wrist watch was carelessly retouched, you catch yourself thinking: here he is, the main philanthropist, a luxury lover worried about his comfort and image.

One old anecdote about the "good of man" gets a new life here. It is very bad to worry about the happiness of a person, forgetting about God, unless this person is a church hierarch.

Kirill's aggressive anti-humanism meets with no resistance from Russian officials. And it is clear why: the fight against human rights at the level of ideology is fully consistent with the real practices of our current state. What to do if you need to explain to already poor citizens why the state is increasingly getting into their pocket with new fees and taxes? To say that the main thing is not to forget about God.

Kirill Martynov
editor of the department of politics and economics
Photo: RIA Novosti

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Today we are facing a very dangerous, in my opinion, phenomenon in philosophical, political and spiritual life. In modern times, the belief arose that the main factor determining the life of a person, and hence society, is the person himself. Surely this is heresy...

Prior to that, it was believed that God governs the world through the laws that he created, and human society - on the basis of the moral law, which he discovered in his word and displayed in human conscience. Therefore, they tried to bring human laws into line with God's law; God and conscience were the main judge, and the main authority for human judgment was God's law. But there came a time when this immutable truth was questioned and said: “No, God has nothing to do with it. Everyone has the right to believe, but this is his own business, because there are non-believers. Every individual has special rights, including to determine for himself what is good and what is bad. This means that there must be some universal criterion of truth, and only a person and his rights can be such, and the life of society must be formed on the basis of the indisputable authority of the human person.

Thus began the revolutionary expulsion of God from human life. At first, this phenomenon swept Western Europe, America, and then Russia. Our revolution took place under the same banners and the same motto - to destroy to the ground the old world, the very one in the center of which is God. We drank the heavy cup of suffering, and our people showed many martyrs and confessors.

Since I am talking today about my personal life, I will also say that my first teachers were confessors - my grandfather and father, who went through prisons and camps, who suffered not because they violated state laws, but because they refused to betray the Lord and the Orthodox Church. And our people, as you know, went through all the trials and survived.

But today the idea of ​​life without God is spreading with new force already on the scale of the whole planet. We see how in many prosperous countries efforts are being made to establish at the legislative level the right to choose any path, including the most sinful one, which is contrary to the word of God. This dangerous phenomenon in the life of modern mankind has been called "de-Christianization". Probably, such philosophical views could not be called heresy if many Christians did not accept them and did not put human rights higher than the word of God. Therefore, we are talking today about the global heresy of human worship - a new kind of idolatry that rips God out of human life.

Nothing like this has ever happened on a global scale. It is precisely to overcome this main heresy of modernity, which can lead to apocalyptic events, that the Church must direct today the power of her word and thought...

Probably the most terrible problem of our time is the persecution of Christians, and I wonder why, until recently, it did not cause a warm response. I will cite the data of international organizations: every five minutes a Christian is killed in the world. For a day - about three hundred people, more than 100 thousand a year. Today Christians are being persecuted like never before, neither in the Roman Empire nor in the Soviet Union. And we live as if nothing is happening - we are not being persecuted. There were a million and a half Christians in Iraq - 150,000 remained; in Syria, one and a half million - there are 500 thousand left. In Nigeria, fundamentalist radicals are atrocious, killing Christians, slaughtering entire villages. The same is happening in Pakistan, in Afghanistan - no protection. A person is killed just because he goes to church on Sunday, and no one protects him.

Kirill Martynov was born on April 25, 1981 in the city of Kemerovo. In 1988-1998 he studied at secondary school No. 28 in Kemerovo. In 2003 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov in the Department of Ontology and Theory of Knowledge with a degree in Philosophy.

In 2003-2007, he was an assistant at the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at the Moscow State Technical University "MAMI". Since 2007 - Senior Lecturer, then Associate Professor of the Department of Ontology, Logic and Knowledge Theory of the Faculty of Humanities / School of Philosophy, National Research University Higher School of Economics. He was a senior lecturer at the Department of Humanities at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation.

In 2007, at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, under the scientific supervision of Doctor of Philosophy, Professor 3. A. Sokuler defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Philosophical Sciences on the topic “Intentionality as a single problem field of analytical philosophy of consciousness and phenomenology”. The official opponents are Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor V.V. Vasiliev and Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor S.V. Danko. The leading organization is the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. In the work, a study was conducted devoted to the fact that the philosophy of consciousness that develops in the space of analytical philosophy quite often refers to such a concept as intentionality, which acts as a hallmark of consciousness, as, for example, by Daniel Dennett. This gives rise to a common field of the problem posed and the possibility of a mutual exchange of ideas and mutual influence of phenomenology and analytical philosophy.

Author of articles in Otechestvennye Zapiski and Russkiy Zhurnal magazines, Moskovskiye Novosti and Novaya Gazeta newspapers, on the RBC Internet portal and a columnist for the Vzglyad.ru Internet publication. Participated in the development of the Internet portal Liberty.ru. He was the editor-in-chief of the online publication Opinion.ru.

He worked at the Effective Policy Foundation, spokesman for the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, and was also the coordinator of the liberal club United Russia. He was the editor of the policy department of the Russian Journal. Currently, he is the editor of the political department of Novaya Gazeta.

Expert of the Repnoye School of Effective Communications, expert of the Center for Political Analysis, expert of the online publication "Actual Comments" of the Center for Political Current Affairs of Russia.

The circle of professional interests includes such areas of scientific knowledge as political philosophy, sociology, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. Speaks English and German.

The latest events in Russia directly testify to the intention of the FSB to take full control of the political processes in the country. The special services impose their own ideas about the goals of political development and methods of political participation on the country.

Russia is coming under the complete control of the all-powerful, and unrestrained by anything and no one, Russian special services. This fact is stated on the pages of Novaya Gazeta by the editor of the political department, Kirill Martynov.

The author's article talks about the complete transition of the management of political processes within the country under the control of the FSB. This, according to the author, is evidenced by recent events in Russia - the removal of the heads of regions from their posts with the subsequent initiation of criminal cases against them and the intensified demonstrative repressions against the Russian opposition.

“Special services impose their own ideas about the goals of political development and methods of political participation on the country,” emphasizes Kirill Martynov.

Repressions against the opposition primarily affected Alexei Navalny and Leonid Volkov, who were defiantly arrested just on the eve of the opposition's protest action scheduled for October 7. In the same vein, the material discusses yesterday's searches, in the case of the Yukos company, in the apartments of Open Russia employees, including the current chairman of Open Russia, Alexander Solovyov, as well as in the office of this organization.

According to the author, if previously the regional, and even the federal, authorities acted against the opposition in the Russian version of "soft power" - trying to marginalize opposition supporters, presenting them as a small sect, now the FSB takes control of all political processes in the country, acting as the only regulator of all political life.

“Pressure on political activists should show the Kremlin that the special services are coping with problems more effectively and it is they who, in the interests of the country's security, of course, should have the final say on political issues,” the author states.

Kirill Martynov notes one striking feature. We are talking about the use of propaganda techniques in the conduct of investigative actions. According to the author, this indicates the need to demonstrate to society the features of the new Russian political realities.

“... The participation of propagandists from REN TV indicates the political meaning of what is happening, in which the UK plays only the role of a performer,” the article says.

Kirill Martynov, speaking to the change of leaders of the Russian regions, emphasizes that the rotation of regional elites was de facto launched by the FSB and opened along with the arrests of governors Alexander Khoroshavin, Vyacheslav Gaizer and Nikita Belykh. The deputies of some regional leaders who have retired in recent weeks, in particular, the governor of Primorsky Krai Vladimir Miklushevsky, according to the author, have also been in operational development for a long time.

Speaking about taking political processes under the control of special services, the author also draws attention to the cultural life of the country. In his opinion, the FSB already tightly controls the processes taking place in the Russian cultural sphere.

“The FSB directly controls cultural policy - this was announced with great resonance after the house arrest of director Kirill Serebrennikov. They say that the director's case was transferred to the service for the protection of the constitutional order of the FSB, due to the fact that this organization has special skills in working with the intelligentsia, ”the author writes.