Storify is going down forever, so some reprints.
Have you ever tried to create a political party in Russia? You know, like Alexey Navalny or Boris Nemtsov have. It's so hard, trying to get on the ballot when officials pick on every little thing. But it turns out, you've been doing it all wrong! Let Konstantin Rykov show you how it's done!
The trick is to treat the party not as some real party, you know, with members, a platform, registration, consistency in views, loyalty, even party discipline and mutual solidarity. No, the trick is to treat the party as a conveyor belt, you know, the way the Communist Party itself was. You don't want to really believe in your party's goals or its consistency to its charter, you just want to use it to get and keep power and keep others off balance. In fact, the best thing of all, is when you can rent a party to get into power but never actually be its member, in case you have to throw it away later and disassociate yourself from it, you know, in case its youth branch in particular gets a bad rep. Let Konstantin Rykov show you how...
Создательница твиттера @euromaidan идет на выборы в Раду по списку Порошенко http://t.co/SfkaB50aMZ pic.twitter.com/HKAqBrK38D
— Константин Рыков (@rykov) September 13, 2014
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Here's a typical anti-Ukrainian slam from Rykov, this time on founder of the @EuroMaidan account Svetlana Zalishchuk:
Translation: The creator of the Twitter account @euromaidan is going into the election for the [Ukrainian Verkhovna] Rada on the Poroshenko list.
BTW, this account is likely run by a group of people, and I'd like a second opinion; back in April, Rykov outed this account as run by Zalishchuk, who he calls "the common-law wife of Sergei Leshchenko, editor of Ukrainska Pravda." I'm not privy to Ukrainian gossip, but Ukrainska Pravda has been the best, most accurate and responsible paper covering this war.
This is supposed to expose her as politicized and exploitative as Rykov -- who has taken the name "McRykov" this week to cynically expose the Kremlin propaganda industry's boosting of the Scottish independence movement, which they love, as it breaks up the UK and weakens the West.
Of course there's nothing wrong at all with the Euromaidan gal going into the Rada. Why not?! It's a free country -- unless Russia keeps invading it, right? Right? While I might wish some of the Ukrainian leaders of civil society would stay in civil society and make both it and the government better, it's war, and if loyal Ukrainians want to get in the government and try to keep their country alive and free, who could be opposed? It's especially unsavory for Rykov to cast stones on this woman when...he himself is in the ruling party. Watch what happens next.
Шотландская народная республика сегодня в ударе! pic.twitter.com/oHNnRcfFEY
— Константин Рыков (@rykov) September 13, 2014
First, a vulgar comment: Translation: you'd blow her? ; )
So I ask:
Read the whole thread and people's comments here:
Создательница твиттера @euromaidan идет на выборы в Раду по списку Порошенко http://t.co/SfkaB50aMZ pic.twitter.com/HKAqBrK38D
— Константин Рыков (@rykov) September 13, 2014
This is a reference to the Foundation of Effective Politics, founded by Marat Gelman and Gleb Pavlovsky, a Kremlin aide for many years before falling out of favour. Rykov, a web entrepreneur worked with Gelman on Irak.ru and Vojna.ru which were anti-American sites.
abuses
documented by Amnesty International. Perhaps there are more. But ultranationalists poll 2% in the polls. EuroMaidan Twitter people aren't in these ultranationalist parties as far as we know; if it turns out they are, they are not likely to get into parliament, given actual past records of not only polls, but recent elections where they didn't. So...how is it that Poroshenko is going to become a prison guard?! Putin is the one locking people up in large numbers, look at Bolotnaya Square cases.
[What a chore, copying these posts from Storify!]
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