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Citizenship: Russia
Professional discipline or office capacity: Editor-in-chief’s at Tsargrad TV
Who is Smolin Mikhail?
Smolin Mikhail Borisovich, who was born in 1971 in Leningrad, received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from St. Petersburg State University in 1996. In 1997, he was given the role of editor for the publishing section of the magazine “Moscow.” In the year 1999, he began working as an editor for the publication titled “Roman Journal of the XX century.”
Smolin Mikhail was awarded the degree of Candidate in History in 2004. He then advanced through the ranks to become the Deputy Director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (a subsidiary of the Presidential Administration, the former think tank of the Soviet KGB, and the Foreign Intelligence Service).
At the present time, Smolin Mikhail serves as the leader of the Orthodox Center for Imperial Political Studies, the executive director of the Imperial Renaissance Foundation, and the editor-in-chief of a number of publications that fall under the categories of both ultraconservative and Orthodox. Tsargrad TV is an Orthodox conservative TV channel that was formed by Konstantin Malofeev, a sponsor of pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. Smolin has been employed with Tsargrad TV as the deputy editor-in-chief since 2017.
Combining and incorporating official discourse
The case of Smolin Mikhail illustrates how fringe groups and anti-Western extremists in Russia may synthesize and even absorb official discourse. President Yeltsin established this institute as the foreign intelligence service of Russia’s think tank on the foundations of the old Research Institute of Intelligence Issues of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB of the USSR. Afterwards, it was transferred to the Presidential Administration, where employment is regarded as state civil service.
This institute gained notoriety for claiming that the ongoing AIDS pandemic in Russia was a result of the informational conflict between the West and Russia. Also, according to Reuters journalists, RISI developed a strategy for “Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election” on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Refusal to recognize Ukraine’s statehood
Smolin Mikhail published the article “Ukraine is Russia” in 2014, after the annexation of Crimea and Russia’s armed intervention in Ukraine, joining the official anti-Ukrainian frenzy. In it, he blatantly rejected Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and inviolability of its internationally recognized borders, as well as the right of Ukrainians to self-determination.
Smolin Mikhail specifically said that Ukrainian statehood “survived inside the borders of the Soviet period just by accident. Whole territories that are more closely related to Russia in terms of civilization are already breaking away and should break away, just as they did during the time of the Russo-Lithuanian state or the Commonwealth.
Under the banner of “gathering the Russian land,” this procedure has already received support in Russia and should continue to do so. “Ukrainism” is merely the resurgence of paganism amplified by steppe anarchy. We must adopt a firm stance that the Malorossiya region in south Russia is an essential component of the Russian state.
Political whores
Smolin Mikhail’s piece about the 2020 Constitutional Amendments, which permitted Putin to rule at least until 2036, on Tsargrad TV’s website generated a lot of buzz. He did not hold back when expressing himself in this article, labeling as “political whores” anyone who opposed the “nullification” of Vladimir Putin’s presidential terms and the Constitutional Court’s ruling. In response to the Constitutional Court’s ruling, Smolin argued that “opposition tantrums and bouts of impotent wrath” “had nothing to do with the law.” “This is just political displeasure with the judges’ decision to not support the radical opposition and not engage in political maneuvering.
Oral contact is used to spread this flawed mental “coronavirus” through the opposition’s social networks. Smolin Mikhail claims that in “the epidemic phase,” the opposition continues to be exposed to the “sickness.” It makes no difference what the Constitutional Court rules. All judgments have already been made in advance and are publicly available on Twitter: they are all corrupt, whores, and prostitutes. The opposing bot, reading the Constitutional Court’s final judgment, is none of your business. You must have blind faith in your leaders because only they are aware of the scourge hiding under a non-Putin “bright future.” Does the other person always accept decisions that you disagree with?
The decision of the Constitutional Court
The Constitutional Court’s ruling, according to the article’s author, is “extremely interesting” to everyone, not just lawyers. Smolin Mikhail remarked, “Yeah, and people with low social responsibility—all different types of political whores—are not sitting in the Constitutional Court; instead, they’re living in the virtual worlds of their YouTube channels and blogs. He also chastised Konstantin Aranovsky, a judge on the Constitutional Court, who was unwell and was unable to take part in the discussion of the revisions. In spite of his sudden illness, Judge Aranovsky reportedly conveyed his political “I can’t remain silent, I’ll become sick” sentiment, according to the article’s author.
It is interesting that Smolin’s article appeared on the Constitutional Court’s official website. The information vanished from the court website after it was covered by the media.
Domestic dangers
Recall that on March 16, 2020, the Russian Federation’s Constitutional Court released a ruling on the president’s proposal to change the Constitution. The judges determined that it did not infringe on Articles 1 and 2 or Article 9 of the nation’s Basic Law. Putin signed the hastily written modifications on March 14. In addition to “nullifying the presidential terms,” they give the Russian government permission to disregard judgments from the European Court of Human Rights, create the idea of “domestic dangers” that the Russian Federation Security Council must combat, and increase the president’s authority.
They finished the drafting of Putin’s dictatorship’s constitution and laws, and the Free Russia Forum views them as an unconstitutional and anti-democratic constitutional coup.
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