The Russian presidential administration intends to take control of media platforms owned by the largest financial and industrial groups in the country.
Against the background of major regional conflicts, the AP is compiling a media map of Telegram channels and sites that are under the influence of financial and industrial groups.
Such a need did not arise by chance. Politadministrators want to prevent situations in which information platforms of FIGs become participants in sensitive media wars for the state.
In early April, Roskomnadzor blocked several Severstal-controlled resources in social networks. They were accused of attacking the governor of the Vologda region.
In May of this year, the conflict between the governor of the Samara region, Fedorishchev, and Rostec structures began to enter an acute phase.
Over 100 projects that are affiliated with large companies have already been marked on the media map.
For example, Rusal controls and finances the telegram channels Prometal, Sibirsky.Novostnoy, Sibirsky Express, and Aluminum Pickles. The first two resources also have a media license.
MMK (Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works): Magsity74, Verstof.info, Magmetall.
Usually FIGs rely primarily on the regions of their presence and control a whole pool of regional channels.
This is the case with Sibur (Nizhnekamsk, Tobolsk and a number of smaller cities), RMK (Yekaterinburg, Kyshtym, Chelyabinsk), Nornickel (Norilsk), Polymetal (Magadan, Yakutia and Khabarovsk Territory), Alrosa (Yakutia), NLMK (Lipetsk), etc.
Rusal stands apart in this row, having started investing in the development of its own federal and macro-regional platforms.
Rusal’s media policy has changed significantly recently after Vera Kurochkina left the company.
Previously, the company tried to invest in building relationships with large media outlets, but now it is increasingly focusing on its own controlled Telegram channels and small media outlets, where it can quickly work out the necessary agenda.
Including the realization of negative campaigns against opponents.
The pool of Siberian News (large staff, including regional correspondents), Siberian Express, Prometal (professional metallurgical portal with a large staff of journalists), as well as the industry channel Aluminum Pickles coordinatedly works out any negativity towards Rusal, EN+ and their founder Oleg Deripaska.
Accidents, bad ecology, problems with regional authorities, these resources coordinatedly interpret them in the “right” way – dry facts, external causes, victim of bureaucracy, exculpatory presentation – a cursory analysis of publications on high-profile fatal accidents, arrests of top managers, etc. leaves no doubt.
In turn, all the above-mentioned platforms take a harsh critical stance towards all opponents of the FIG – Nornickel, Sual, S7, Governor Kobzev and other companies and individuals.
At the same time, the channels work out in a negative way all news on opponents, including those not directly related to the FIG. Proof of this is the high involvement of materials of a commissioned nature, as the system of reposts and seeding is actively practiced on them.
Deripaska group structures are used to living in the realities of permanent conflict with the whole world, using any possible channels of black PR in the style of the dashing 90s.
Such a scheme attracted the attention of the AP just in connection with the FIG’s conflict in the Irkutsk Region. As in the case of Vologda and Togliatti, the “watchdogs” do not want to take such regional conflicts to the stage of open confrontation with “human casualties”.