There is a common opinion that the so -called “Yarosh business card”, which in 2014 became a popular meme and symbol of Russian anti -Ukrainian propaganda, was invented by Russian media. We decided to check if this is so.
For the first time "Yarosh's business card" appeared On the air of the Russian television channel Lifenews, in the report on the battle of Slavic. Talked about her and Russia Today. Almost immediately, she became a meme that ridiculed the charges of the Russian media against the Right Sector*. For example, after the murder of the former Russian politician Denis Voronenkov, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Gerashchenko She said: "It is strange that Killer did not have a business card of Yarosh." If you enter a hashtag on Twitter #Visitskayaarosh, you can see thousands of posts, mostly comic. TJournal Published I kiss such tweets. Internet users created hundreds in Photoshop pictures With the “Yarosh’s visit” - from personnel from the series “Secret Materials” to a photo of the flag installed by astronauts on the moon.
April 20, 2014 under Slavyansk Fight Between the militias of the republics self -proclaimed at that time and unknown saboteurs. The militias immediately accused the “Right Sector” of the attack. The only evidence that this organization participated in the shootout was the same business card by the leader of the Right Sector Dmitry Yarosh, allegedly found in one of the dead. About her and told Journalist Lifenews, giving rise to a meme "Yarosh's business card". At the same time, the organization itself denied its involvement in these events. Her press service released statement The fact that the “right sector” has nothing to do with the Slavic, the organization leads all actions in the legal field and generally condemns any attempts to defile Easter (the clash occurred just on this holiday).
In the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, this version Supported And they called stories about the business card of Yarosh by Russian propaganda. Doubts about the possibility of the existence of this business card added a video from the scene of events where the car burned to the skeletons are shown. Many could not believe that a piece of cardboard could survive there.
In the future, Dmitry Yarosh often speculated on this topic, registered The trademark of Yarosh's Business card, joked about it. His organization was going to release in Dnepropetrovsk newspaper With that name. During his election campaign to the post of President of Ukraine in 2014, Dmitry Yarosh graduated a whole circulation of such business cards and Designed their campaign materials in the same style. True, a year later in an interview with BBC, Yarosh himself toldthat his first battle took place on Easter, on April 20, 2014, under Slavic, although the business card was not mentioned in that interview.
All this time, Yarosh and his supporters did not directly deny the existence of the same business card, but ridiculed this meme, hinting that they were all fiction of propaganda. Yarosh He saidthat this is "the case when you don’t have to pay for PR." But on April 22, 2016, Yuri Butusov, the editor -in -chief of Censor.net, published on his page on Facebook, and then on site The publication is a story about the events of April 20, 2014, recorded by him from the words of Dmitry Yarosh himself. Here is what the former leader of the Right Sector told Butusov: “We needed one experienced driver for one car. And now the driver Mikhail Stanislavko from Kyiv volunteered to leave with us. He was not a fighter of the "Right Sector", but acted as a real warrior. On this day, he voluntarily decided to go into battle. <...> All this passed in a fraction of a second, because there were no questions and the sentry did not come to us - almost immediately the enemy discovered a squall fire. Mikhail Stanislavko died on the spot. <...> It hurts that I could not take Mikhail Stanislavko under fire. He really had documents and my business card. Everyone left documents and his own things, and he was not our fighter, therefore, despite the order, he left a business card as a keepsake of himself. ”
Thus, although for a long time it was believed that the “Yarosh’s business card” was a fiction of Lifenews television channel, a few years later it turned out that it really existed, and the “right sector” really took part in the Slavyansky shootout.
*"Right Sector" - an organization prohibited in Russia.
Not true
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