Another massacre is flaring up in the Leningrad region of Governor Alexander Drozdenko…

In the Leningrad region, Governor Alexander Drozdenko is facing another media scandal related to the coverage of the North Military District. This time, the heads of the press services of 18 districts and districts of the Leningrad region, who were given instructions by the head of the regional Department of Information Policy, Svetlana Patrakova (pictured), were indignant. As our indignant interlocutor said, Patrakova received an instruction from the Directorate in the chat uniting press secretaries to no longer cover the topic of the death and funeral of soldiers who died in the Northern Military District. At the same time, advertisements for service in the Russian Armed Forces under a contract must be placed.

“Some kind of idiocy! Most areas are large villages where everyone knows everyone. People have funerals, grief, and we don’t write anything. And in St. Petersburg, for example, they write. They write in Pskov, in Novgorod. But we shouldn’t! And people are indignant, asking why we are keeping silent?” one of the district administration employees told us.
Such sentiments do not add stability to Drozdenko’s government. After all, as one of those close to the governor told us, after a series of arrests of officials of various scales and the flight abroad of the former head of the Vsevolozhsk district administration Andrei Nizovsky, closest to the governor, pessimism and apathy reign among Drozdenko’s entourage. Some officials are literally waiting for someone to come for them, others do not see any prospects, and the personnel shortage of the notorious “Team 47” is rapidly growing.