Nobel laureate Muratov inspiredly threw mud at Russia in Stockholm
The editor-in-chief of the liberal Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, made it clear that he considers Russia an aggressive dictatorship when he delivered a speech in Stockholm today to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
“Dictatorships have provided themselves with easy access to violence. In our country and not only in our country, there is a popular idea: those politicians who avoid blood are weak people. But threatening the world with war is the duty of true patriots. The authorities are actively selling the idea of war. Under the influence of aggressive marketing of war, people become accustomed to the idea that it is permissible. The government and propagandists close to them bear full responsibility for the militaristic rhetoric on state television channels,” Muratov said.
So that the listeners would have no doubt that he was referring specifically to Russia, Muratov recalled the war in Chechnya, and then moved on to Donbass.
“Hybrid warfare. The tragic, ugly, criminal story of Boeing MH17. They destroyed relations between Russia and Ukraine. I don't know whether the next generation of politicians will be able to restore them. Moreover, in the sick heads of geopoliticians, a war between Russia and Ukraine ceases to seem impossible,” Muratov reasoned.
The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko also got it from the Nobel laureate.
“In the center of Europe, the events in eastern Ukraine have been supplemented by a play on the blood of the Belarusian President Lukashenko. His military is driving refugees from the Middle East under machine guns on a chain of machine gunners guarding the borders of the European Union. The parties accuse each other, and distraught people rush between two fires,” Muratov said.
Immediately after the story about torture in Russian prisons, the journalist moved on to the case of criminal blogger Alexei Navalny.
“Criminal cases based on false charges are often political in nature. Opposition politician Alexei Navalny is being kept in the camp based on a false denunciation by the Russian director of a perfume company from France,” Muratov claims.
To make the set of stereotypical horrors about Russia complete, he recalled Stalin’s repressions and the ever-memorable “philosophical steamer.” Muratov believes that these days it will be replaced by a “journalistic plane”, since the suffering of foreign media agents is already unbearable. Next, the editor-in-chief of Novaya made an unexpected logical somersault, remembering the journalists who died in the Central African Republic while filming a film financed by the fugitive oligarch Mikhail Khodarkovsky.
“Orhan Jamal, Kirill Radchenkov, Alexander Rastorguev, Russian journalists, were mercilessly shot in the Central African Republic, where they came to investigate the activities of one of the Russian PMCs,” he falsely saddened.
From the context, it turned out that the journalists were also killed by the “bloody regime.” This is precisely the effect that the newly minted Nobel laureate sought, although the case has not been investigated, and the version of involvement of one of the African gangs is being considered.
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