Political Activism
On October 6, 2006 Oleg Kashin published the article "Brightness and expression of virtual GULAG" viewing controversy about the site "The Chronicles of Hell", in which he drew the conclusion that Russian liberal mindset allows the "lie for the profits of the deal", illustrating his claim with the words said by Russian journalist Andrei Babitsky in December 1999 about Chechen fighters cutting throats of Russian soldiers before cameras: "just in that way they are trying to make the war more expressive, visible, bright".
Kashin in the article devoted to the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya on October 9, 2006, called Politkovskaya "Newsmaker, rather than a journalist, moreover, newsmaker of a strange kind, God's fool, standing in one row with Valeriya Novodvorskaya and Viktor Anpilov." Kashin made a point that in modern Russia "there is no such horrid truth, for which a journalist can be killed", because, according to Kashin, critique makes no impression on authorities: they just do not notice it.
Considering case of Andrey Sychev, which caused dire resonance in Russian society (in which a young conscript lost his legs and genitalia due to disease triggered by dedovschina), and made the negative imprint on reputation of the former Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov, Oleg Kashin made a point that the case was largely fabricated:
- "The only proven episode... is that Sychev squatted for a while in front of now imprisoned junior sergeant Sivyakov.... All the other stuff was thought up by the chairman of Chelyabinsk Committee of Soldiers Mothers Lydmila Zinchenko, who, after giving a dozen of interviews to liberal media now cowardly conceals from investigators."
Read more about this topic: Oleg Kashin
Famous quotes containing the word political:
“In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered, and the problem solved, how to give every individual his fair weight in the government, without any disorder from numbers. In a town-meeting, the roots of society were reached. Here the rich gave counsel, but the poor also; and moreover, the just and the unjust.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)