Talking to Financial Times columnist Simon Cooper Russian tycoon Derk Sauer, president of RBC and owner of the publishing house Sanoma Independent Media, talks about the strategy of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the media.
Cooper reports that binds Sauer basic positions in the media Perzident Putin and Silvio Berlusconi. Moreover, according to Sauer, Putin is learning from Berlusconi. “They both understand that if you control the main TV channels and conduct propaganda there, you will go far.” He described the “Russian recipe”: Italian television, the Chinese policy, add a little oil.
Sauer said that Putin can hardly be blamed for the fact that he is trying to return the system to interact with the media in the Brezhnev era. “For Putin, television priority. Unlike Stalin and Brezhnev, he realizes that he does not need total control over the media. Hitherto state reserves websites and newspapers alone” – says Sauer.
In 2005, media mogul said in an interview: “Russia is funny that informed people to have complete freedom of the press, and for the uninformed – no.” Informed at the same time using the Internet and watching satellite television, reports InoPressa.
Sauer extremely skeptical of the idea that in Russia maybe something like the “Arab Spring.” “For the revolution needs of the young unemployed, but there is no unemployment, and young people are very rare. People have no time to sit in Tahrir Square: they work in the morning. Situation can change only one thing – the collapse of oil prices,” – he added.
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