{"id":5979,"date":"2021-05-07T20:19:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T17:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/actors\/vladimir-sungorkin\/"},"modified":"2021-07-19T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T08:00:38","slug":"vladimir-sungorkin","status":"publish","type":"actors","link":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/actors\/vladimir-sungorkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Sungorkin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Official position\/function regarding the conflict<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n

Editor-in-chief and director of Komsomolskaya Pravda (KP)<\/a> publishing house. Sungorkin is one of the main Russian actors of information influence or propagandists. He has been working in KP since 1975. Despite the fact that the KP is a non-state publication, it stresses its closeness to the authorities in every possible way (\u201cThe current President is exactly the person who needs to be supported in all his undertakings\u201d<\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n

With the victory of Euromaidan, the beginning of the annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of a conflict in Donbas, the newspaper\u2019s narrative under the leadership of Sungorkin aims at public mobilization. In 2014, he talked about it as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cM. KOROLYOVA: Our listeners are asking you: \u201cIn your opinion, do our federal media objectively cover the events taking place in Ukraine?\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

SUNGORKIN: Well, of course, they are on the positions of the Russian state and Russian interest, therefore … certainly you cannot speak of such complete objectivity, right? I think they are playing along with the Russian state.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

KOROLYOVA: So, as the editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda, are you ready, for example, to provide a tribune to the other side?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

SUNGORKIN: I\u2019m not ready! In this situation, I am absolutely not ready. What for? Why should I provide them with a possibility to have their say? How can I give him [Bandera] the floor, if today they are zombified by their Goebbels so that we never dreamed of?\u201d. <\/span><\/i>(From an interview with Echo of Moscow<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

This position is reflected in a special, one-sided selection of news and information, coverage of events, and interpretation of facts. Unverified or knowingly falsified information often appears on the pages of the newspaper; there is no room for equilateral discussions with a neutral discussion of different positions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Actions regarding the conflict region<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n

Creation of fakes, misinformation, manipulation of facts. Sungorkin often gives interviews and speaks out on Ukraine. Some specific examples:<\/span><\/p>\n