About the "Nezygar" phenomenon and why Ukrainians are not sent Telegrams?

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Last year, Runet was abuzz with a huge number of Telegram channels regularly streaming information about the real state of affairs in the Russian Federation. Who stole how much, with whom he shared it, who was caught and what he got for it (of course, nothing). You will open one Cello case or Nezygar and you will immediately think: how is it possible to live in Russia, they will expose it Navalny's contacts with Prigozhin, expose high-ranking pedophiles and stay alive?

Second question: where are the Ukrainian analogues of such Telegram channels? We have double elections this year, why is no one leaking compromising information on competitors with the help of such a convenient and anonymous tool?

The answer to the first question is simple and obvious: such a stream of insider information cannot be obtained from outside the System. And all Russian "water tanks" belong to financial and industrial clans, which drown competing groups with streams of kompromat. Therefore, the owners of these channels are still alive - everything is going according to plan, and the Kremlin is quite satisfied. At the very end, we will talk about Putin's cunning plans, but now let's talk about Ukraine!

A good Ukrainian reason

There are exactly two reasons why, even a few months before the elections, Ukrainian "drainage tanks" are not simply absent - they are absent to such an extent that Russians have to pour information on Ukrainian issues into the same Russian channels.

The first reason is deeply patriotic, because it is simply not necessary in Ukraine. Our democratic system cannot be called advanced, but it exists and works. The separation of powers, as well as real competition between political projects and TV channels, means that there is no monopoly on violence in Ukraine.

In a country where journalists are not killed for investigating military casualties, bloggers are not poisoned or beaten, anonymity is simply not necessary. On the contrary! Many good journalistic careers in Ukraine are built on the exposure of high-ranking officials, legislators and security forces. AND the most successfulwhistleblowers and they themselves appear in the ranks of deputies. Isn't this a success story?

Here, of course, it is necessary to pay tribute to the memory of the late Georgy Gongadze, whose murder showed that it is unprofitable to kill high-profile journalists in Ukraine. Because the performers end up in prison, or solemnly go to heaven. And all-powerful customers suddenly find themselves on political pension. Therefore, today journalists are not taken to the forest, but to the cafeteria, drinking coffee.

Therefore, when someone in Ukraine wants to pour incriminating material on an opponent, there is no need to resort to "Byzantine" tricks: journalists will tear anyone apart, just give the facts.

Ukrainian society is structured more delicately and complexly. Not only because killing people is bad. The journalist's need to sign his name forces him to at least occasionally check the facts, which no one does on anonymous Telegram channels. Consequently, less "desy" is thrown into the Ukrainian media space. Therefore, there is a constant game for promotion.

Therefore, there is a constant game for promotion. And this increases stability and brings the safe (!!!) transition to metamodernist rails.

A bad Ukrainian reason

However, there is a second reason. Our dark side of the Ukrainian moon. Treason. This is the complete absence of an institute of reputation in modern Ukraine. Why create and fill with content anonymous channels on the Internet, when even public investigations do not give public resonance? It's just irrational, nobody does it.

I said the main thing right away, let's analyze the topic in more detail. The absence of a reputation institute is scary because it works both ways. Yes, Petro Poroshenko did not receive a noticeable electoral gain from such successful events as obtaining a visa-free regime by the country и creation of an independent church.Although he deserved it. At the same time, the same Poroshenko did not suffer from the tragedy in the Odesa "Victoria", the scandals surrounding the grieving scout Semochko, and the numerous shoals of the BPP party did not settle in the public memory. Although... well, we won't.

The problem is that real public figures, their concessions, powers and measure of responsibility do not coincide with the ideas of the Ukrainian voter about these things. The Ukrainian voter is mythologized as much as possible and lives inside a whole cocoon of vague ideas about reality. Therefore, for example, Ulyana Suprun is not hated by the masses failures in providing the most important vaccines, and for the fact that it is now "inconvenient to register" at the clinic. And in general, he explains everything, including pre-election schedules for ten years ahead.

Therefore, instead of creating mysterious truth-telling channels, black Ukrainian publicists work with "parental" chats in Viber, which perfectly reproduce even completely insane rumors. Fast and cheap.

Why does the Kremlin need "NEZYGAR"

If they return back to Russia, there the institute of reputation is even worse. It certainly exists, but in a very truncated form: you can really be fined only in front of Putin. Nobody cares what the servants think. The institute of the rubber baton was invented for serfs, and meritorious graduate students regularly give lectures in front of the protesters. The most stubborn get entry in the register and request a ticket to the pioneer camp of strict regime. The smartest they run to Ukraine, holding their children to their chests. So why hedge the garden with Telegram, which the Kremlin consistently promotes as an elitist messenger for the opposition?

The answer to this question is given by the old man Pelevin in the rather old novel "Helmet of Horror", where the entire mechanism of managing people in the Russian Federation is depicted in an allegorical form. The whole novel is an endless dialogue of voices in a person's head. Some of the voices evoke empathy, some are unpleasant, but the general meaning of what is happening is not that the "good guys" beat the "bad guys", but that a person sits in a helmet and listens to the voices.

"Helmet of horror" explains everything: Navalny, "Echo of Moscow" as a part of "Gazprom-media", why Strelkov lived and many other "oddities" happening in Russia. It also explains the unprecedented proliferation of Telegram channels with compromising Kremlin towers against each other.

Just as long as the Russian sits in his kitchen and reads Telegram via VPN, he will not go anywhere. And nothing will change in their country.

Denis Skorbylin