‘Anonymous International’ Leaks Kremlin's Instructions to Russian TV

Pulling back the curtain on Putin's propaganda machine. Images mixed by author.

Pulling back the curtain on Putin's propaganda machine. Images mixed by author.

A Russian Internet group called “Anonymous International” has leaked what it claims is a “tyomnik”—a list of prepackaged news stories prepared by the Kremlin for Russia’s central television news stations. The group does not name its source for the document, but the whistleblower says Vladimir Putin’s administration is the author.

The tyomnik (see below for a translation of the first two sections) instructs TV journalists to justify Russia’s recent annexation of Crimea, to laud President Putin’s efforts to develop the region, and even to advertise Crimea’s tourist season, on which the local economy desperately relies. (Russian journalist Ilya Barabanov joked that the talking points for Crimean vacations—“nearby, safe, among our own people”—are oddly similar to the slogan for the Sochi Olympics: “hot, cool, yours.”) The document also coaches television news stations to propagate an apocalyptic description of events in the Ukrainian heartland, where criminals and fascists supposedly run wild.

Russian television has long been infamous for parroting the Kremlin on political issues. It is still rare, however, that the public glimpses this propaganda system’s internal workings. If Anonymous International’s leak is genuine, Russians are getting to peek behind the curtain today.

The first page of Anonymous International's “tyomnik” leak.

Тема – Крым

Главное:
1. Следует разъяснять, что за 23 года нахождения в составе независимой Украины Крым по вине киевских властей в основном деградировал. Цель российской власти сейчас – обеспечить становление новой жизни на полуострове, привести Крым к общероссийским стандартам в качестве жизни.
Разгрести “авгиевы конюшни”, оставленные украинской властью, в одночасье не получится; но работа в этом направлении ведется, и результаты крымчане будут ощущать ежедневно.
На прошлой неделе по поручению В.В.Путина Крым и Севастополь посетил ряд министров силового блока. На следующей неделе ожидается поездка ряда других членов кабинета.

2. Просьба активно включиться в работу по пропаганде летнего отдыха в Крыму: близко, безопасно, у своих.

Topic — Crimea

Main points
1. It should be clarified that 23 years within an independent Ukraine largely degraded Crimea, and the authorities in Kiev are to blame. The goal of Russian authorities now is ensuring the emergence of a new life on the peninsula, bringing Crimea up to Russia’s national standards of quality of life.

Cleaning the Augean stables left by Ukrainian authorities cannot be accomplished overnight, but the work is underway, and Crimeans will be seeing it every day.

By order of Vladimir Putin, a number of key ministers will visit Crimea and Sevastopol. Next week, several other members of the cabinet are expected to make the trip, as well.

2. Please make an active effort in your work to promote the summer vacation season in Crimea: it’s nearby, safe, among our own people [“у своих”].

Тема – Украина

Основные линии информационной работы:
– атмосфера беззакония, нарастающий хаос: нацисты на ключевых государственных постах, МВД парализовано страхом (все грозные слова после гибели А.Музычко остались только словами), разгул криминала, дуреющего от собственной безнаказанности, рост преступности под видом “майдана”;
– экономика катится в пропасть: денег как не было, так и нет; объявлены уже в самом ближайшем будущем рост тарифов, снижение социальных выплат и секвестр бюджета;
– на этом фоне особенно цинично выглядит нарастающая грызня за власть.

Topic — Ukraine

The bottom line for informational work:
– there is an atmosphere of lawlessness and growing chaos: nazis occupy key government posts, the Interior Ministry is paralyzed by fear (all the tough talk after the death of [Right Sector general] Aleksandr Muzychko has remained only words), crime is rampant, stupefied by its own impunity, and rising under the guise of “Maidan” activism;
– the economy is spinning out of control: money that was drying up before [Maidan] is still absent; a rise in taxes in the very near future has been announced, along with cuts to welfare benefits and a government budget sequester;
– in this context, bickering over power looks especially cynical.

218 comments

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  • Le Ruscino

    US run propaganda – keep swallowing & Obama will keep wanking down your throat !

    • Blue

      Thanks for your ‘serious’ contribution Le Ruscino.

      We appreciate your efforts and know that you try so hard to give your best.

      Get well..

      Regards

      • Le Ruscino

        Never ever forget that the US needs war to survive right now -everything else is smoke & mirrors!

        There is a paradigm shift from West to East happening right now & Ukraine is small potatoes – the pussy sanctions tell it all …………

        While the US was sleeping Russia got way too strong for them in a great many ways – the Soviet Union was brought down with a financial trick which the Russians never forgot & the banksters exposed the West’s weak flank & ‘we’ did nothing about it voting in the likes of Cameron & Clegg while the US got lost with the worst President in their entire history – still waters run deep & the Bear is back but this time with the upper hand in ways that our corrupt politicos have not even thought of yet – we need a charm offensive to survive !

        • Blue

          Russia is a country with so much to offer the world. Russian people are an amazing people who contribute to the whole of mankind and humanity.

          However your political diatribe is exactly what Putin wants you to believe.

          Russia can not build a car without inviting in foreign auto makers so they can copy their technology. Russia can not build a functional drone without Israel. Russia can not build a functional ship without Franse’s Mistral and then they require licensing so they can learn from their techs..

          Russia has what competent cell phone? Oh yeah, Yota. That may hit the markets beyond Russia soon. It uses what operating system? hhmmm

          Were the European and US markets to have the backbone to shut out Russia there would be a repeat of the collapse of 1991! That is a FACT regardless of what line you buy.

          Russia simply has some 19% roughly of the US/European population. Russia has some 8-9% of the combined US/Euro GDP and economy!

          Of course matters have not come to this measure but the fact is that Putin knows this and he knows the polits of the west and that is all he has in his favor. He would do well to know those limits also.

          Tell me…Were the gates opened for all Russian citizens both politically and economically how many more MILLIONS wold leave? Quite a few!

          Now ask the same for the US and Europe!

          Who are you fooling besides yourself Le Ruscino?

          Putin has broken the laws of decency, humanity, commerce, trade, war, and so many more. Russians in Russia may be deceived and lack access to accurate honest news but even those fine peoples are not so stupid or naive as to believe the Putin lines ‘fed’ them from their authoritarian government…

          • Le Ruscino

            I’m guessing by your unsubstantiated BS you are a US troll who does realise that Russia has bitch-slapped Obama twice & has taken the moral high ground both times leaving the West to support Al-Qaeda in Syria & a Neo-Nazi coup in Kiev – both of which are unforgivable in the eyes of the majority on this planet. On economics the West is broke, kaput, over ! RBS recently leaked that if the shit hits the fan there will be $200 to €1 – the bubble is ready to blow & the only distraction is war. VW got Merkel to pull in her horns very sharpish – did you not notice? & Obama had to talk big & act small – look at the pussy sanctions. 300,000 German jobs rely on Russian business not to mention 33% of the gas & then there is the Centrica/Gazprom deal that take wind out of Cameron’s sails & the Mistral order that screws the French & really if the US trade would totally dry up it would’nt harm Russia at all BUT if the Bear as the world’s giggest oil producer stopped selling in US$ then 24hrs later the empire ends !!

            Where we are now was carefully planned but in this game of chess Putin is playing Obama the pigeon who knocks over the pieces, shits on the board & then struts around like he owns the board.

            Officially leaked now is $5bn spent by the US to destabilise Ukraine !! Can you imagine how pissed they are to get bitch slapped again.

            Wake Up !

            For your fun – see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkamZg68jpk

             
          • Le Ruscino

            While you are digesting – on tech in which you imply Russia is a backward 3rd world country ?

            Russia has Borei Class which makes US subs look like dark ages, A 5th generation that works unlike the US $1Trillion dollar F35 JSF that does not! S400 that makes Patriot look like an antique ! Glonass !! Low orbital system. A functioning space program – who built the Mir Space station later ISS? Mir means peace BTW….. and people like you who never think ahead didn’t work out why Russia ordered 2 Mistral ships

            Russia also has resonance technology for molecular separation – nowhere in the world.

            Deals with European car makers were a smart move & none of them want sanctions!

            You are bright enough to be an adviser to Obama it seems? All the knots were prepared years ago & the West didn’t see it coming!

            Russia wins every which way you cut this cake

             
        • Alex

          http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26809625

          The Bear prefers to talk, which is good. And you, Sir, are you ready to fight? Yes, personally you? take a gun and fight “ukrainian fascists”?

          • Le Ruscino

            We can fight lies with words ! But the answer has to be a big yes & I’m not alone but lets fight with words & open blind or shut eyes.

            Everyone will talk as military is not an option – The US & EU have already arranged & used the gun to get the coup they needed. I’ve seen first hand on the ground and can’t tolerate lies, hypocrisy & deception as I have seen on this forum. To answer your question I do not advocate violence at all but I do advocate open eyes & balanced facts.

            Besides Russia has already won this deal but the game of chess will continue for a while to come – the losers are the Ukrainian people who sadly voted in serial rapists for leaders including Yanukovich, Tymochenko etc

            The Ukrainians were gullible in the past & they are being gullible now! They are being played by the West for a NATO base & this is a sin.

            This being said there is a much bigger game going on here.

             
  • Blue

    Can this very comments thread be read anywhere in Russia on a major network?

    Case closed! *(I said major network and not internet which may be blocked at any given time to some degree…)

    I comment at times on numerous popular sites and if my comment criticizes Putin or the approved position or represents any unpopular truth then it is never posted. In fact I posted truths some two years ago on RiaNovosti and it reached a point that when I posted links to prove the truth with pictures linked I have been blocked ever since.

    I can mask my ISP and address and make a new email to login but why? I know the truth and I have no need to prove that to anyone. The worthy and relevant people know it also!

    Russian media that goes through the Kremlin is no better than PressTV or any other similar regulated and filtered source.

    It is good to read so as to know how to reply to ignorance and propaganda, but has little more use, if any…

    • Sergey Tokarev

      Can it be? Absolutely. You can find droves of even more stupid posters in Runet, because being brainwashed idi0t is an unalienable right. Try for example mail.ru, which I like.

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  • DmitryVedeneev

    im a bit late to this, but to me it looks like a kremlin leak

  • Canadian Guy

    Wow. It looks like a briefing note for ministers. I used to write those all the time. They are written all the time. Everyone writes them. What it shows is that politicians have so little awareness of their own governments positions that they require speaking notes to stay on the same page. This is tripe thrown together by handlers to keep the minister from sticking foot into mouth.
    Hardly a state “secret”.

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