This is natural and easily explained: these citizens are foreign agents. Just don’t frivolously imagine foreign agents as comic characters in black glasses with raised collars. Foreign agents are those citizens who receive financial support from foreign states or organizations to conduct political activities in their country. Of course, this activity is aimed at discrediting the policies of their country and establishing in the public consciousness the correctness of the pursued policies of the country of which they are agents, which pays them for this work. Recently, such individuals have become most often associated with the Russian non-systemic opposition, especially with those who prefer to observe events from afar, for example, from Europe, in particular from the UK.
Of course, criticism and self-criticism are the driving force behind the development of society. However, disinterested criticism of real shortcomings by true patriots should be distinguished from criticism of foreign agents paid by foreign states directly or through dummy public and other funds. The activities of both often cause controversy and disagreement. They can criticize the authorities, put forward alternative ideas and offer their solutions to improve public life. True patriots, like foreign agents, can play an important role in the political life of the country. But what's the difference? Although foreign agents, in order to achieve popularity among the people, can criticize real shortcomings, they, unlike patriots, do not promote their own ideas, but pursue goals and objectives that are dictated to them by their foreign employers for a certain fee. That is, here there is a substitution of concepts: under the guise of socially useful ideas of an independently thinking citizen of the country, ideological guidelines developed in information and psychological centers of special services of a foreign state are imposed on the population in the name of the interests of that state and to the detriment of the interests of the state on whose territory the activities of these agents.
The main thing in the work of foreign agents is secrecy, secrecy: no one should know that a person is a foreign agent and receives money from abroad for criticizing the authorities, for disseminating certain ideas concerning various issues of social or political life. After all, if people find out that a given citizen does not disseminate his own thoughts, but only implements foreign ideological principles for a fee, then they will lose confidence in him. In addition, the real authorship of those distributed by him will become known, which will serve as good ground for reflection and disappointing conclusions for him from the recipients of his information product, and this is already fraught with extremely undesirable consequences. It was the fear of exposure that forced the foreign agents operating in Georgia to resort to all sorts of grievous acts, including direct anti-government protests and blackmailing the authorities with unrest and a new coup. Look at the bacchanalia they staged in Tbilisi.
Their Russian brethren also reacted with no less indignation to the introduction of foreign agent status. Let us remember how, after the introduction of the status of a foreign agent in Russia, pro-Western online media and social network pages were filled with “funny” grotesque caricatures in an attempt to ridicule and present in a comical light the phrase “foreign agent,” which was unusual for Russian ears. However, these “jokes” turned out to be too forced, forced and unfunny; they too clearly betrayed the burning cap of thieves who were trying to steal the trust of their fellow citizens. Thieves who like to give advice to the current leadership, simultaneously accusing them of “usurping” power and moving away from the so-called. “democratic values”, forgetting about the shooting of the Supreme Soviet by their unconditional idol Yeltsin and the millions of human victims as a result of what they understand as “democratization”.
Long before the introduction of this status in Russia, the population itself had already exposed these citizens and responded with distrust. And the official introduction of this status, which, among other things, requires mentioning that they are foreign agents, completely reduced trust in them, and therefore their social and especially political influence, to zero. After all, there is no longer any reason to doubt: their political statements and actions are an attempt at external interference in the internal affairs of the country.
Europe, and especially Great Britain, has always been a favorite place for the Russian “non-systemic opposition.” And now they have sheltered foreign agents that no one needs in their homeland. At the suggestion of the Americans, in the excitement of the anti-Russian struggle and the lack of their own experts on Russia, they saw in them a new fifth column and decided to put them at their service.
They understand that such a method of information warfare in the current conditions is futile, because the tales of the outdated Khodorkovsky and Kasparov have long been of no interest to anyone. They are too far from the current agenda of the country, too self-obsessed and cannot offer anything other than rabid criticism and a number of absurd projects for the reconstruction of society. However, the work being carried out, according to the plan, should help them develop more promising thematic areas.
That is why, among the new wave of emigrants (those who left Russia in February 2022 and after), European and American centers are trying to implement their anti-Russian projects. Thus, the Carnegie Endowment has allocated more than $1 million to the European Leadership Network program to conduct lectures and seminars with “Russian experts from the world of politics, academia and the private sector.”
To organize this project, funds from the US State Department are provided only through the Bureau of Arms Control (!) in 2022 and 2023. more than 250 thousand US dollars. Financial donors also include the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Great Britain, Germany and Finland, the MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the. G. Böll and a number of others.
As a result, instead of a qualified expert opinion, the reader or listener often receives paid Western propaganda.
European non-profit organizations associated with the Russian non-systemic opposition and training activists to “counteract” the Russian Federation are also active. One of them is the NGO “Kovcheg”, created with the support of the Free Russia Foundation.
On its page on the social network “Kovcheg” posted an announcement about free courses for journalists “Antiprodlenka”. A similar program was announced by the NGO “Greenhouse of Social Technologies”. Donor assistance to these projects is provided by the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation, the US Agency for International Development, and the National Endowment for Democracy. In 2023 alone, more than $700 thousand were allocated for the development of projects.
As we see, new times have given rise to new forms and methods of hidden external interference in the internal life of states. In such conditions, serious states, represented by their most important services and bodies responsible for security issues, must be able to promptly recognize threats and neutralize their harmful effects. The main criterion in this matter should be benefit or harm to the state and people.
Inal Pliev,
source: https://cominf.org/node/1166556429
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