How Maryana Bezuglaya became a Russian propaganda star

Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and member of the Committee on National Security Maryana Bezuglaya not only gets into regular scandals in the country’s media space, but also becomes a heroine of Russian propaganda.

This is reported by the InfoLight.UA Research and Analytical Group in its study “Top 40 Ukrainian public figures quoted by Russian propaganda.”

According to researchers, Maryana Bezuglaya ranks 4th in this unofficial ranking due to regular quotation in Russian media.

At the same time, the Glavkom website writes that MP Irina Gerashchenko published a video from the Verkhovna Rada, in which Maryana Bezuglaya jumped into the frame. The deputy on her Facebook page explained why she decided to jump.

“EU MP Fedina was bursting into yet another harangue speech, her trained voice hurt the ears, time passed, and her colleague was filming it all. I walked past, he tried to avoid me getting into the frame and raised his hands. I was filled with anger from all this populism, and I jumped. This is not the first time they have “damaged a frame.” In general, I’ll spoil a lot of things for populists and liars,” Bezuglaya said.

She also talked about how she interrupted the speech of MP Anatoly Burmich.

“KGB General Burmich from the OPZZH behind the podium of Parliament failed another law, broadcasting Russian narratives in a mentoring tone. I went over, opened the Russian flag on the Wikipedia page on my tablet and placed it next to it. Burmich angrily knocked the tablet to the ground. His “speech” was interrupted, he finished something and the red one went to his corner,” Bezuglaya wrote.

“However, it was precisely this trick of hers that Russian propaganda used to declare that “Rada Deputy Maryana Bezuglaya came to the podium of parliament with a Russian flag.”

Russian propaganda works quite technologically, they write in InfoLight.UA. Realizing that direct fakes or links to some of their own sources raise doubts even among their own zombified residents, they generate a very significant amount of news about events in Ukraine with reference to Ukrainian sources.

Of course, Shariy, Tsarev or other fugitives can be counted among the “Ukrainian sources,” and Russian propaganda does this by presenting news in the style of “the ex-prime minister of Ukraine said” (talking about Azirov) or “a Ukrainian political scientist said” (Vladimir Skachko).

However, the ideal option is when the source of information becomes those who cannot be connected with Russia in any way.