Schuster: Russian propagandists no longer receive clear instructions from the Kremlin. They, like blind kittens, try to say something and somehow explain, but it doesn’t work anymore.
Russian propagandists no longer receive clear instructions from the Kremlin about what can and cannot be reported about the Russian war against Ukraine.
Journalist, TV presenter Savik Shuster expressed this opinion in an interview with the editor-in-chief of the GORDON publication, Ales Batsman, in response to a comment about changes in the behavior of propagandists, in particular, Vladimir Solovyov and Olga Skabeeva, who work on the Rossiya 1 channel, as well as Russia Today editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan.
"It's like they're at a loss and don't know what to do next," Batsman said, asking what that meant.
"This means that they do not receive clear instructions. There is no party line that must be unquestioningly followed. They take a map of hostilities and do not understand what can be told and what cannot be told, where there is a breakthrough and where there is no breakthrough. They look to the left - there is the Ministry of Defense, to the right - the FSB, behind - I don’t know who is there. But they are seduced and almost abandoned. Because no one is leading them anywhere. They themselves must navigate somewhere. Although they perfectly understand what awaits them. Glory does not wait for them. Their riches do not wait. They will not shake hands in any country of Europe. In Russia they are hated both on the left and on the right. They hate the wrong word ... But no one wants to touch them, "Shuster answered .
He added that propagandists in the Russian Federation "now, like blind kittens, are trying to say something and somehow explain, but this is no longer working."
The system under which the Kremlin controlled the work of Russian propaganda is very fragile, Shuster continued.
“One sentence [singer] Alla Pugacheva is enough - and all this falls like a house of cards. Against the background of Pugacheva, some Solovyov, some Simonyan, some Skabeeva seem like rubbish. And there Alla Borisovna Pugacheva, who says: you were serfs, but became slaves. And against this background, it’s already embarrassing even to yourself. And you won’t blather, and you won’t shout anymore, and you don’t hear at all, you’re like a frog in a dark swamp. Pugacheva alone with one sentence can nullify all the propaganda noise and garbage. This is how this system is built," he explained.
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