Vitaliy Portnikov: Shoigu thinks the media must serve the military

Russia's Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu has called mass media "but another arm of the armed forces." There is nothing strange is such a world perspective. Shoigu, incidentally, was the son of a party journalist who rose to the post of secretary of the Tuvan Regional Party Committee. And who himself was secretary of the party's city committee. Yes, the person who is generally seen as a general is in reality an ordinary party worker who has never served in the army and who was a lieutenant in the reserves. Shoigu received his general’s ranks while serving as minister at the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. And it is obvious that for such a person the Bible is not the Statutes of the Armed Forces but rather Vladimir Lenin's article "The Party Organization and Party Literature."