A lecture by the dean of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University, Vitaly Tretyakov, “Journalism in the era of information war” was held at Novosibirsk State University. He told the students that a journalist is a fighter, the Ukrainian language is worse than Russian, and propagandists, unlike liberal journalists, do not lie. He also, at the request of the special correspondent “Father,” commented on the situation with harassment in the State Duma and stated that Slutsky behaved “like a normal man.” Some students were outraged and left the lecture.

Vitaly Tretyakov began by saying that there are many people who do not believe in waging an information war against Russia. During the course of the lecture, he asked this question several times and, as a result, led the audience to the conclusion that journalists who do not choose sides are traitors and collaborators: “If you want to be defeated, capitulate, run away from the front line, say that it’s okay. You will be defeated if you want it. But you must understand that there are others who definitely do not want this. And apparently, they are the majority and they will resist. Either you or you.<...>Fighters are journalists. You may be the best pacifist in the world, but if they strangle you and your family, what good is your pacifism? Only harm. This does not mean that I am now calling on everyone sitting in this room to write angry notes about what a fool Theresa May is, what a scoundrel Boris Johnson is. Although both are true.<...>Even in classical war we see that there are breaks between battles. And there is no need to be mistaken here. Now there is no battle going on, and you say that there is a war. Espionage activities continue, troops are landing. We journalists cannot help but take a certain position. If you are a deserter, you will not be shot. But that doesn't mean you won't be treated differently by most others. You can consider them cattle. That they are not civilized, that we would drink Bavarian beer and not Zhiguli. You can think so, write articles on these topics. But just understand that the majority thinks differently. The nation must survive." The lecturer added that in order to “fulfill a professional mission,” a journalist goes beyond the bounds of public morality, or rather, steals information, as the intelligence services do to ensure the country’s security.

Vitaly Tretyakov

Tretyakov also noted that it was not Russia that started the information war, since it could not have started it in the “post-Soviet, or more precisely, in the anti-Soviet years.” At the same time, Tretyakov stated that Russia is the greatest country “in terms of duration of existence” and in terms of “linguistic criteria.” He said that the tactics of “Bandera” to “expel the Russian language” are correct, but we must resist it. “The Ukrainian language is worse than Russian, it is certainly a level lower linguistically, but in this case this is not the main thing,” Tretyakov said. After this remark, four people left the audience. “What are you, comrades-in-arms of Bandera’s followers?” - the speaker asked after them.

The dean of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University said that, unlike a classical war, during an information war, “hostile entities” are not withdrawn from the territory of the country and there are many more of them on Russian territory than there are Russians in the West. Employees of foreign foundations, according to Vitaly Tretyakov, including the recently closed British Council, are spies. “Practically everyone is involved in political intelligence. It is unlikely that they are stealing secrets from your physics institutes, although this is unknown. The states understand that everything cannot be closed, so everything is controlled and misinformed accordingly. Classic counterintelligence activities are being conducted. The closure of the British Council means that fifteen percent of British agents on Russian territory have simply been confiscated. This is a significant blow."

Tretyakov noted that a journalist should not be ashamed of the fact that he is a propagandist.

“There is a journalist, and there is a propagandist. A journalist may make mistakes, but he is a good person. And the propagandist is a priori bad. This is absolutely wrong. Every journalist is a propagandist,” said the dean of the Higher School of Television. - There are no journalists who do not engage in propaganda. There are those who forbid themselves to evaluate information and comment. But they are sources of black propaganda. They lie, they deceive. What is now commonly called fake journalism.” Propagandists, according to Tretyakov, speak “sincerely and honestly, without deceiving.” “If someone says to my face: “You are a propagandist,” this person will be completely verbally smeared in a minute and a half. The audience will understand that he is an idiot. And many shy away when they are accused of this. You shouldn't get lost. We must defend the country, our corporation, and not fall for these cheap tricks,” he added. Tretyakov also said that he recommends several textbooks for students to read in order to master journalism: “This is my textbook, the Bible, the Koran for Muslims, the Criminal Code and a textbook on homiletics - the art of preaching.”

The first question was asked by a first-year student at the NSU Department of Journalism: “How do you comment on the positive internal agenda of federal channels and the hushing up of events? The latest example is the rallies in Volokolamsk over the poisoning of children. But, unfortunately, there was nothing about this on Channel One in the final release. At the same time, the emphasis is on foreign policy. Is this an element of information warfare for you?” Tretyakov, having interrupted the young man several times, replied that this was being done so as not to raise panic “during the post-election euphoria.” “Just imagine, you are returning home. The family is happy to see you, dinner is ready, and you say that a person was killed there. Ruin their mood. They really killed a person, they really are lying in the mud, but to tell or not to tell is a moral choice.”

“I am struggling with the fact that there is an opinion: the reserves of honest journalism are in the West, and the breeding grounds for vile, vile and deceitful propagandists are in Russia. Firstly, you don’t respect yourself by thinking like that. Secondly, this is not true. By the way, in Russia there really are breeding grounds, as a rule, for lying journalists. Basically, they are in the liberal media,” Tretyakov added.

The next and final question was asked by the special correspondent of “Fathers,” a third-year student at the NSU journalism department, Pyotr Manyakhin:

- How do you feel about the situation with harassment in the Duma, the decision of the ethics commission and the boycott of the media?
- How can I tell you? Do you hit on girls?

- Not usually.
- NO?!

- Only by obtaining their consent.
-Your sexual tactics are even more sophisticated. This is called waging an information war. First, psychological suppression of the object of capture, and then physical capture, which in any case would be regarded as violence, but since the victim has already been propagated, she surrenders and thinks that with pleasure. I know Leonid Petrovich Slutsky well. And it is possible that he, like any normal man, in certain circumstances could put his hand on a woman’s bare knee or on some other place. Not everyone is so prepared for modern tolerance. And in our time, there were those who fooled a girl for a long time before they tried to kiss her, but there were also more straightforward ones. I don't see anything wrong with this.

But this is communication in professional discourse. A journalist comes to a deputy for a comment. In the evening, at the exit from the State Duma, you can give a bouquet.
- Who told you that? Is this what they tell you in the West? I believe that a man and a woman remain a man and a woman both at the exit and on the third floor, and some even in the elevator.

- No, on the third floor of the State Duma they are, first of all, a deputy and a journalist.
- Who told you this?

- This presupposes the ethics of business communication.
-Who wrote this ethics? The code of ethics is known to me in the biblical presentation. I am a non-believer, although I really value Orthodox civilization. But I know one source of morality is what is written in the Bible.

- Slutsky proposed to a BBC correspondent to become his mistress. The Bible says you can't have mistresses.
- How do you know?

- There is a recording.
- I stated my position. Any normal man in certain circumstances, namely in a confined space, would do the same. Do you think the office is somehow different from the bedroom? In this large audience, sexual instincts manifest themselves somewhat differently. If they put it into you that this is not possible, then you can’t, it’s a zoo. There really isn't much that can be done there. Mating occurs according to the decision of the zoologist. We live in a free world. We, thank God, do not live in the West. I started working in Soviet times. The Soviet Union was accused of having few Orthodox churches. Now Russia is being criticized for the fact that the Orthodox Church is flourishing here. This is because then they did not spread rot on their church. They recognize as good only what is already happening to them. Hence the dual position.

Someone said there - on Ekho Moskvy or in Meduza: they say, we refuse to communicate with Slutsky. The subtext is this: you will be healthier. Well, don't communicate. There are many women in Moscow, many journalists, others will communicate. And these journalists act according to the templates that are in the West. Why didn’t you tell us about this five years ago? Because of your silence, Slutsky now heads the Committee on International Affairs and the Kremlin cannot expel him from there. I don’t listen to such recordings, I’ve seen pornography. Is there a slap sound there?

- No.
- Why the hell if he harassed her? This is exactly how a girl should behave in such a situation.

“She probably thinks she can’t slap a deputy in the face.”
-Are you taking this girl's side?

- I ask you, and you start discussing.
- Any man at a certain age begins to harass different women. One of the harassments ends in a wedding, then children are born. You were born, as I understand it, in the same way.

- Perhaps I didn't ask.
- I do not rule out that the initial act took place in an office building.

- Hardly.
- I understand that in my time it was considered impossible. I cannot boast of being as old as you, although at your age you also have youthful stubbornness and youthful conformism. We used to hear this from old people, but now from young people. World turned upside down. First, will you report on how you behave at the registrations?

- Wonderful. At most, I just get drunk.
- And I think it’s indecent to get drunk. Although this happened to me too. Now political correctness is replacing what used to be censorship. We are not biorobots. If a man's behavior offends you, slap him in the face. But five years later... Well, yes, they sit with their friends, drink, remember their youth, who fought off whom. But they are making a political gesture. Well, do it right away, since you are so brave, declare it right away. Just like with Harvey Weinstein. I am ready to defend him. He seduced film actresses, which in itself is an oxymoron. Conviviality is now in Hollywood. In our country, someone said that Weinstein molested her. They showed it on Channel One because it was from Channel One. There's no big resonance. It’s okay that Weinstein harassed a Russian actress, but when he harassed Hollywood stars, that’s an event. And these savages...

Don't become an old man who itches and discusses gossip. It's all gossip.

During the discussion, people began to leave the audience, and some became indignant at Tretyakov’s words. By the end of the lecture, no more than half of the original amount remained.

“My classmates and I decided to leave because we were no longer going to listen to Vitaly Tretyakov’s sexist statements. Can anyone even wrap their head around the idea that an adult man in an audience, most of which are girls, future journalists, will begin to defend Leonid Slutsky? It is very convenient to explain all situations where a woman is subjected to violence or “aggressive advances” by masculine nature or the woman’s “inappropriate” behavior. I didn’t expect that someday within the walls of NSU I would hear about how it has become the norm to “put a woman’s hand on a woman’s bare knee or somewhere else,” because “well, he’s a man,” Anna Anishchenko, one, told “Father.” of the students who left the lecture.

Dean of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University Vitaly Tretyakov, during a lecture at Novosibirsk State University (NSU), answering a question from journalism students about his position on State Duma deputy Leonid Slutsky’s harassment of female journalists, replied that the deputy “can put his hand on his knee or any place.” Some students, outraged by this statement, left the audience. The students sent a letter to the rector of NSU, in which they called the incident a disgrace for the university and demanded an explanation from the university management about how such a lecturer came to them.

Novosibirsk State University hosted a lecture by the dean of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University, Vitaly Tretyakov, on the topic “Information Wars”. Students of the Faculty of Journalism from the first to the fourth year came to listen to Mr. Tretyakov. “First he gave a lecture. In my opinion, these were lengthy statements that everyone was against Russia. He did not use examples, there was no argumentation, there was no presentation of two positions,” said one of the students present at the lecture. After this, Mr. Tretyakov suggested asking him questions, and he was asked what he thought about Leonid Slutsky’s accusations of harassment of female journalists. “I know Leonid Slutsky very well. Any normal man, in certain circumstances, could put his hand on a woman’s bare knee, or if she was wearing trousers, or on some other place. I don't rule it out. Not everyone is so prepared for modern tolerance. And in our time, there were those who fooled a girl for a long time before trying to commit... kiss her. But there were also straightforward people who immediately tried to kiss. “I don’t see anything bad in this,” said Vitaly Tretyakov (an audio recording of the lecture is at Kommersant’s disposal).

There was a buzz in the hall. After this, one of the young people answered Vitaly Tretyakov that we were talking about professional communication between a journalist and a deputy.

“And I believe that a man and a woman remain such both at the exit and at the entrance to the State Duma, and on the third floor, and some even in the elevator,” the dean continued.

These words caused even greater dissatisfaction among the listeners. One of the students said that she could not stand it any longer and left the classroom. “We got up and left because we were uncomfortable hearing this, there were 10-15 of us. Some stayed to listen, and their reaction was far from positive,” said the publication’s interlocutor.

To the roar and laughter of the students, Mr. Tretyakov stated that he had “stated his position”: “You think that I was on my way, ended up in Novosibirsk, flew for four hours for what? In order to... lie? Any normal man in certain circumstances, namely a closed room... - repeated the lecturer. - Do you think an office is different from another closed room? In this audience, do you think sexual instincts manifest themselves differently if you are a normal person? Mating takes place according to the decision of the chief zoologist, biologist, but we live in a free world, we don’t live in the West, where one, two, three are not allowed,” continued Vitaly Tretyakov. He also wondered “why the fuck is she (a journalist.- “Kommersant”) didn’t slap me,” and expressed the opinion that “this is exactly how a woman should react.”

After the lecture, a petition appeared on the Change.org portal to the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Olga Vasilyeva, demanding the removal of Vitaly Tretyakov from the post of dean of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University. “We believe that such statements are unacceptable for a person holding the respected position of a scientist,” the petition states. In turn, the students sent a letter to NSU Rector Mikhail Fedoruk, in which they called the incident “a disgrace for the entire university” and demanded an explanation from the university management as to how such a lecturer got to the university. The head of the marketing department of NSU, Olga Yakovleva, told Kommersant that she had not received a letter from students. “However, the situation is conflictual, it needs to be discussed, so tomorrow we are going to meet with the guys with the deputy director of the NSU Humanitarian Institute (former dean of the Faculty of Journalism) Olga Zhuravel,” she noted. According to Mrs. Yakovleva, Vitaly Tretyakov gave a lecture at NSU for the third time, but so far there have been no conflicts.

The students do not hide their indignation. “It was insulting - Tretyakov, in front of a full audience of journalists, mostly girls, said that harassment is normal,” said journalism student Alexandra Yevtushenko. She believes that Mr. Tretyakov should apologize to the students who were forced to listen to this, and NSU needs to carefully select lecturers who speak within the university. “It seems to me that this is at least disrespect for a woman as a person. The man stands up for a great Russia and the traditional values ​​of Russian civilization and says that the West is bad. But at the same time it justifies harassment,” says Pyotr Manyakhin, correspondent of the samizdat “Father, you are a transformer.”

Tatyana Kosacheva, Ilya Galaguz, Elena Morozova, Novosibirsk

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The dean of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University spoke about Slutsky’s right to molest girls

Vitaly Tretyakov Website of the St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Trade Unions

On March 23, the dean of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University, Vitaly Tretyakov, gave a lecture at Novosibirsk State University (NSU) and said that deputy Leonid Slutsky “can put his hand on his knee.” Several NSU students who listened to his speech told RTVI about this.

Tretyakov came to NSU to give a lecture on information wars. According to the students, in particular, he said that the Ukrainian language is “linguistically a level lower than all others.” After the end of the lecture, Tretyakov began to be asked questions. One of the students asked the lecturer how he felt about the situation with deputy Slutsky. The dean of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University replied that he knew Slutsky well and that he “like any normal man in certain circumstances could put his hand on a woman’s bare knee... or on some other place.” Tretyakov noted that he sees “nothing bad” in this. The students filmed their answer to the question.

According to RTVI interlocutors, most of the students then demonstratively left the classroom. One of the students who was at this lecture wrote that at the end Tretyakov said: “He has harassed and will harass. And not only to journalists.” She takes this as a personal insult and demands an apology from the university management. She is also supported by other NSU students. “I think the saddest thing about this situation is that I will not feel safe in my country as long as people like this wonderful man condone violence,” she said.

Let us remind you that on March 21, a meeting of the commission on parliamentary ethics was held, which considered the statements of journalists Daria Zhuk and Farida Rustamova, who accused the parliamentarian of harassment. Following the meeting, it was decided that there were no violations of “behavioral norms” on the part of the deputy. After this, the RBC holding announced that it was recalling all journalists working in the State Duma as a sign of disagreement with the commission’s conclusion. Znak.com, the Vedomosti newspaper, the Kommersant publishing house, Novaya Gazeta, the Dozhd TV channel, RTVi and a number of other editorial offices, totaling 26, joined the boycott.

In 1976 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University.

In 1976-1988 he worked at the Novosti Press Agency.

In 1988-1990 - in the weekly Moscow News.

In 1990-2001 - editor-in-chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta (he was replaced by Tatyana Koshkareva).

Since 2001, the host of the program “What to do?” on the TV channel "Culture".

In 2006-2007 - editor-in-chief of the weekly Moscow News. General Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Independent Publishing Group NIG (since 2001).

In December 2007, Vitaly Tretyakov received an offer from the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Sergei Mironov to take the post of editor-in-chief of the Parliamentary Newspaper, to which he agreed, but in March 2008 the leadership of the State Duma refused to approve Tretyakov for this post.

Awards

• Winner of the Golden Pen award of the Union of Journalists of Russia (1997).
• Laureate of the Russian Biographical Institute Prize.
• Winner of the TEFI Prize (2003).
• Recipient of the Golden Badge of Honor “Public Recognition” (1999).

Books

• “Russian politics and politicians are normal and pathological. A look at Russian politics in 1990-2000." - M.: Ladomir, 2001. - 863 p. - ISBN 5-86218-410-4 - Prize of the Ministry of Press and Television and Radio Communications of Russia for the best book of 2001.
• “Scientific and educational notebooks of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. Notebook No. 2, January - June 2010”, Compiled by V.T. Tretyakov. - M.: Algorithm-Book, 2010. - 325 p. - ISBN 978-5-9265-0770-3
• "Philanthropy in Soviet society." - M.: Publishing House of the Novosti Press Agency, 1985. - 80 p. - Released in English, French, German and Spanish.
• “How to become a famous journalist. A course of lectures on the theory and practice of modern Russian journalism.” - M.: Algorithm, Eksmo, 2004. - 623 p. - ISBN 5-86218-451-1 - Prize of the Russian State Library and the Russian Biographical Institute for the best book of 2004 in the “Journalism” category.
• “The science of being Russia. Our national interests and ways to realize them." - M.: Russkiy Mir, 2007. - 766 p. - ISBN 978-5-89577-109-9 - Prize of the Russian Association of Political Science.
• “Do we need Putin after 2008?” - M.: IIC "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", 2005. - 184 p. - ISBN 5-94829-017-4
• “Gorbachev, Ligachev, Yeltsin. Political portraits against the backdrop of perestroika.” - M.: Book Museum "A-Z", 1990. - 69 p. - ISBN 5-85030-012-0
• "What to do?". - M.: Algorithm, Eksmo, 2009. - 304 p. - ISBN 978-5-699-34632-5
• "Spineless Russia". - M.: "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", "Moscow News", 2006. - 544 p. - ISBN 5-94829-018-2
• “Scientific and educational notebooks of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. Notebook No. 1, September – December 2009”, Compiled by V.T. Tretyakov. - M.: Algorithm-Book, 2010. - 256 p. - ISBN 978-5-9265-0767-3
• "Titus Sovietologists. Their struggle for power. Essays on the idiocy of Russian politics." - M.: Publishing house "Nezavisimaya Gazeta", 1996. - 192 p. - ISBN 5-86712-026-0
• “How to become a famous journalist. A course of lectures on the theory and practice of modern Russian journalism.” - M.: Algorithm, 2010. - 560 p. - ISBN 978-5-9265-0768-0.

A television

• Vitaly Tretyakov’s journalistic program “What to do? Philosophical Conversations” is shown on the “Culture” TV channel on Sundays. The program start time varies in each television season, but is usually somewhere from 14:45 to 15:15 Moscow time. The duration of the program is 45 minutes. As a rule, there is a break in the summer, as well as during the New Year holidays. Recordings of the program are regularly posted on the torrent tvtorrent.ru.

Family status

Married, has a son.

Interview

• Interview with Tbiliselebi magazine, August 2009, in Georgian Retrieved January 19, 2010
• Interview with the Rzeczpospolita newspaper, September 2009, in Polish Retrieved January 19, 2010.

• V. Tretyakov was introduced in the ironic detective stories of Lev Gursky under the name of the editor-in-chief of Svobodnaya Gazeta, Viktor Noevich Morozov.
• In modern television history, he is the only television presenter to appear on camera with a broken arm after a car accident that occurred in September 2009 in Abkhazia.
• Speaks French.
• Hobbies: Russian classical and world literature, Russian history, theater, collecting art albums.

Vitaly Tretyakov, Dean of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University

Since, as far as I can judge, regarding my yesterday’s speech to students of the Faculty of Journalism (but, apparently, there were also students from other faculties) of Novosibirsk State University, a number of interested media outlets fell into mind-numbing hysterics, the echoes of which are still heard today, I am forced to briefly describe what what really happened.

According to a preliminary agreement with the leadership of NSU, I gave a lecture “Journalism and information warfare: rules of conduct.” Approximately 200 people attended the lecture.

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There were no “protests” described by anyone during my speech and subsequent answers to questions. True, during the lecture, 5-6 female students silently and simultaneously left the audience. This happened immediately after I said a few words about “Bandera ideology.” Perhaps this is a coincidence, but I even asked those leaving the question: “It seems you didn’t like the way I described the ideology of Bandera’s followers?” There was no answer. The students left the audience in silence. I would even say very intelligent.

After the end of the lecture, one of the first to ask a question was a young man of about 17-18 years old. He asked how I felt about what can be briefly called (my wording) “the case of State Duma deputy Leonid Slutsky”?

My answer was detailed and lasted at least 10 minutes: I generally answer any questions from students and at the same time try to answer in such a way as to show that any problem, any “case,” any scandal always has several facets. And the journalist must see and analyze them all.

Firstly, I said that I know Leonid Slutsky quite well and consider him a normal person and a normal man. But I don’t know and can’t know what really happened between him and those who accuse him of something.

Secondly, I outlined my attitude towards gender relations. And that is what it is. God or nature created man in two varieties, namely as men and as women. And this is no coincidence, since the human race must continue. The corresponding instincts are natural for people.

Therefore, I believe that a man and a woman and their sexual relations are normal, but everything else is a deviation from the norm caused by certain circumstances.

If a man in this relationship crosses some line and this does not happen in a dark alley, then the woman always has the opportunity to stop this, for example, with a slap in the face, which, as far as I know, was not the case in this case.

Thirdly, I said that in this story, as in many similar ones and those that preceded it, what seems strange is that they happen at the same time, but are told about them years later, and not in memoirs. I think I even said that this reminds me of the somewhat forgotten concept of “campaignism” from Soviet times: everyone suddenly decided to fight for something or something.

Now I will add that no one has yet convincingly (at least for me) defined the differences between such concepts as “flirting,” “flirting,” “courtship,” “molestation,” “seduction,” and the now politically fashionable “harassment.”

After finishing my speech, as always, several people came up to me and asked some more questions. There was no noise, no screams, no tears, no protests, no posters, no single pickets or rallies, no demonstrations or sit-ins.

Three hours later, at another higher educational institution in Novosibirsk (namely, at the Siberian Institute of Management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration), my other speech began. Topic: “Putin: the triumph and burden of the presidency.”

During this speech, my phone (which I had muted) constantly received calls from numbers unknown to me. There were so many of these calls that I couldn’t help but pay attention to it.

When, having finished this lecture and answered the questions of those present, I turned on the sound of the phone, the calls came one after another. The ones that I definitely remember were from the television companies RTVI and RBC. The rest are from some online media whose names I don’t remember. By the way, I never gave any of these media my personal mobile phone number, but they called on it. I would even say that they harassed me for information.

The excitement among the callers was as if after my speech the Novosibirsk region, at a minimum, had decided to secede from Russia. Everyone demanded my immediate (and I mean immediate) comment on what “one of the students” posted on the Internet. And he posted, as I realized later, several randomly cut phrases from my answer regarding the “case with Slutsky.”

Some of those who demanded my comment, in particular, wanted me to say “how the leadership of Novosibirsk University reacted” to my words. To this I, having by that time finally realized that a noisy provocation had been started, bluntly said that I was not going to give the questioner reasons for provocation against the university management, and advised me to address this issue directly to the NSU rector’s office and address it.

I did not give any comments to any of these media about what I said. Because I didn’t see what and in what form “one student” posted on the Internet, and since my lecture was public and everything I wanted to say, I already said publicly there.

Arriving at the hotel late in the evening and looking at my websites, I saw that the ominous news about the “terrible words” I had uttered had been spread throughout the Internet. It is significant that those who branded me for what I said, for some reason, mostly expressed themselves in obscenities or the most vulgar phrases. Although, it seems, they spoke out in defense of women precisely from “sexual harassment.” However, I have long noticed that those who present themselves as champions of “civilized relations” and “Western values”, as a rule, use mostly obscene language. Apparently, they think in corresponding words.

By the way, having learned about this excitement, I asked if my speech was recorded on video at the NSU journalism department. This is now considered the rule. But for some reason, in this case, no such recording was made, although I saw at least one video camera in the audience. It was held in the hands of a man who was not at all of student age.

Apparently, this recording appeared late in the evening (local time) on the RTVI website - as I was told (I myself did not see this recording), the entire lecture and all my answers to all the questions.

By the way, I did not give permission to the RTVI television company to publish the recording of my lecture - is there a violation of journalistic ethics here? However, in this case I forgive RTVI. And it’s even good that they posted this recording (I hope, without biased editing and tendentious exceptions) - the easier it will be for those who want to analyze this sexual storm in a glass of political water.
And now - my comment, which was so unceremoniously and at times boorishly solicited by employees of some media outlets who called me yesterday.

First: everything I said, I said and I don’t intend to renounce anything.

Second: the way that what I said and what happened during my speech on the morning of March 23 at Novosibirsk State University was interpreted by those who are outraged by my speech is predominantly either an outright lie or extremely ideologically biased and politically biased verbiage.

Third: I have no direct evidence of what I am about to say, but professional experience and the sum of large and small details (some of which I have now talked about) allows me to assume that some students ask some speakers questions dictated by someone behind them. outside the universities where these students study. But those who are “outside”, as soon as they receive the desired material for a pre-planned (since they record everything) provocation, immediately spin up a corresponding propaganda campaign of a larger or smaller scale.

What can I say here? Only one thing: scoundrels. Well, provocateurs, of course. However, I have already said this. And I take it calmly. Because I understand: provocations are their profession. This is how they earn their living... It turns out - right on the topic of my lecture. Great illustration!