The deflection is not counted: Kiselev complains that in Kyiv he is treated like a Muscovite
Kyiv, November 19 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Raichenko) - Moscow liberal journalists, who have settled and settled well in Kyiv, complain that, despite the demonstrated loyalty to the new government, they, as Muscovites, are treated with suspicion in Ukraine.
TV journalist Evgeniy Kiselev, in the 90s a news presenter on the NTV channel, then owned by the now fugitive oligarch Gusinsky, writes about this, in particular, on the pages of the Kiev weekly “New Time”, and now is the host of a political talk show on the channel "Inter" of oligarch Firtash.
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In his material he stipulates that he is Russian by origin.
“And not just Russian - a native Muscovite of at least the fifth generation,” the TV journalist clarifies. – And the native Muscovite is a special breed. My parents gave me a purely Russian liberal upbringing. I'm an internationalist. I do not suffer from imperial syndrome or longing for a strong hand. I do not feel humiliated or insulted because the USSR lost the Cold War and collapsed, and the communist regime collapsed. On the contrary, I consider these events the most positive of all that have happened in the life of my generation.”
What follows is a short story about his attitude towards present-day Russia.
“I don’t want to part with Kiev, but Putin’s Russia is completely sickening, and I have nothing in common with it,” continues the newly minted Kiev resident. “The collective insanity that has struck the majority of ordinary people only causes disgust.”
Nevertheless, the disgusting attitude towards the leadership of the sickening Russian Federation and the majority of Russian citizens was not enough to feel like they belonged in Kyiv, and the journalist himself characterizes his status in the Ukrainian capital as “a friend among strangers, a stranger among one’s own.”
“Something tells me that even if I finally learned to speak Ukrainian fluently and flawlessly, even if I received Ukrainian citizenship, many would still stubbornly continue to call me a Russian journalist,” admits Evgeniy Kiselev. – Some people do it without thinking and out of habit. Someone sends me a message: you are still a stranger to us, we will always remember and remind you of this. Some experience an ineradicable suspicion of Muscovites: they say they cannot help but be secret agents of the Kremlin.
And no matter how much you express your critical attitude towards the Putin regime, no matter how much you say that today for you the success of a democratic, European-oriented Ukraine is a guarantee that your homeland will someday follow Ukraine’s lead, there will still be those who will watch suspicious of you."
The deflection didn't count: Kiselyov complains that in Kiev they consider him a Muscovite