As part of the media campaign aimed at discrediting Montenegro, the team of the First Channel of Russian state television is staying on the Montenegrin coast and making a feature on our country. Thus, in Sveti Stefan, they talked to former MP Krsto Radjenovic, holder of the Order of Saint Sava and SNP councillor in the previous municipal assembly composition, Pobjeda writes.
However, it is interesting that the Russian TV crew encountered a hostile reception from their countrymen Russians who have lived in Montenegro for years.
Arrival of the TV crew launched an avalanche of negative and ironic comments on Facebook, coming mostly from Russians who live in Montenegro.
Their anger has been caused by the footage of a bullet riddled Hummer SUV near the Sveti Stefan beach, apparently a film prop. This illustration is supposed make the spectators in Russia get impression that there is almost a civil war being waged in Montenegro over joining NATO.
This spin has not been missed many Russian viewers. Thus Anton Rubin, who published a post about the filming, ironically described his own impression:
“You go behind seven lands and seas and run into First Channel ‘journalists’. They have been torturing a Montenegrin dressed in black for a long making him tell them what they need with a few simple question-theses:
- The State has a poor attitude towards Russians and implements discriminatory policies against them; 2. The State hampers investments from Russia, whereas Europe is not willing to invest;
3. All the people are against NATO, only the President is for the alliance!” Rubin posted.
Then he commented on the bullet riddled SUV:
“What they will tell? How hard is it for Russian journalists to work in this hostile country? I am looking forward to watching the news,” he wrote in his Facebook post.
It was followed by several comments of support to Rubin’s remarks. There are just a few of them:
“They forgot a junkie goat,” Marina.
“The car is a prop to scare their viewers with terrible things in Montenegro,” Stanislav.
“They’ve had an interview with me today. I’ve told them the whole truth. Screw them,” Andrej.
“They won’t air your interview. They interviewed me twice but they cut it because I wasn’t bad-mouthing the country,” Marija.
About a week ago, Russia state TV and Zvezda TV of the Russian Defence Ministry were reporting about Montenegro.
Both reports were aimed at making Russians not to visit Montenegro as tourists and presenting the country as the worst places to live.
Russian media campaign seems to be continuing.
