A funny breakdown of a hit piece about me, which all sorts of shady columnists no longer even make up themselves—they just rewrite it almost word for word from a set of talking points sent over by the Presidential Administration (the Kremlin’s executive office):
The comments there are hilarious too: the same crooks rushed in and are trying to prove that they wrote those identical articles independently.
But what amuses me most is not even that the Kremlin has started pushing the line “Navalny is tied to the Kremlin” as kompromat (damaging material), but that Kiriyenko’s people have taken us back to 2009–2011. They’ve scraped together some leftover Surkov-era PR operatives and their old methods from the trash heap.
Back then, seven or eight years ago, all these same Mr. Parkers, Pavel Pryanikovs, and other “Komsomolskaya Pravda columnists” were writing the same commissioned smear pieces about me. The only thing missing is some infernal Maxim Sokolov. Remember him? He was the one who loved stuffing his columns with Latin phrases he’d dug out of a dictionary. I have no idea whether he’s even still alive.
People laughed at it back then too. Even then, anyone read that stuff only if I linked to it myself. And now? Paid smear posts on LiveJournal—seriously? Maybe a few connoisseurs and students of media life, like Corpuscula, might read it.
There are supposedly new trends and new approaches now. These days it has to be “Navalny is a CIA and MI6 agent, he destroyed the USSR” or “Navalny is Hitler.” That’s fashionable and modern. Clickable.
But LiveJournal posts with a bundle of links—what kind of antiquated stuff is that, Vladilenych?
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