Обсуждение: На британских пиарщиков упала тень «последней диктатуры»

The PR action of “Grayling” and the PR-action of the “Belarus Free Theatre” (which is a hubbardist organization) are not necessary incompatible. In some way, they are complementary.

Indeed, Belarusian authorities benefit a lot from the polarization of positions on Belarus. This polarization helps them to clearly separate the business issues from political statements (labeled in whole as emotional and manipulative), saying “it"s apples and oranges”. The more statements of international stars participating to the PR actions of Natalia Koliada and Nikolai Khalezin are emotional, and the more it is easy for Belarusian authorities to disqualify “political” statements in whole, as opposed to “economical” issues.

Natalia Koliada and Nikolai Khalezin, certainly produce remarkable theatre in an oppressive society, but strangely, in spite of their radical political involvement, really oppressive aspects of this oppressive society do not concern them directly, and their account of the difficulties they face in Belarus is today largely recognized by local independent journalists as unfair and grossly exaggerating, for promotion purposes. To such an extent, that an independent journalist Mr. Suzdaltsev has recently suspected Natalia and Nikolai of working for the Belarusian government, functionally, as agents provocateurs or decoy-ducks. (It takes only to consider the rhetorical strategy of the Belarusian Ministry of foreign affairs -- which often talks about "provocative actions", "emotional declarations", and "manipulative pressures" exerted by an "opposition minority"[*] on international audiences, in order to stimulate unprofessional, tendentious, unverified, yellow or activist journalism papers and statements -- to understand in which way the style of communicative action practiced by Natalia and Nikolai can be functionally useful for the Belarusian government.)
[*] http://www.belarus.by/en/press-center/press-release/press-secretary-andrei-savinykh-comments-on-preliminary-results-of-international-observation-during-the-presidential-election-in-belarus_i_0000001944.html

Natalia Koliada is a follower of L. Ron Hubbard (Scientology founder) Management Technology which is a system of direct selling, a set of social or celebrity marketing doubtful manipulation methods, and a sum of unfair PR techniques.