Rucriminal.info continues to publish confidential conversations between officials and oligarchs, which Boris Berezovsky recorded for many years.
From these conversations, readers can learn many secrets of representatives of the Russian power and business elites, journalism, what they really talk and think about, and do not “sing” into their ears from TV screens. In a new portion of “wiretaps” we present the conversations between the manager of ORT (Channel One) at that time on behalf of Berezovsky, Badri Patarkatsishvili, and the top manager of the channel, Konstantin Ernst. Boris Yeltsin was campaigning, concerts were to be held in Moscow with his participation. They were organized by Sergei Lisovsky, and Igor Malashenko supervised all the work of the president with TV. This obviously irritated Ernst very much.
On the first recording, an indignant Ernst swears that Malashenko “hangs” on him a TV show of a concert with Yeltsin’s participation, stylized as “Old songs about the main thing.”
“Lisovsky told me you, ORT, will film all this. Lisovsky has no money. How much money is not clear. It will be shit, we are substituted. Malashenko sets us up. He went to x … I do not obey him. I don’t do concerts… There will be no real “Old Songs”. Artists do not want to go to Lisovsky. Malashenko says you must show it. He went to x … “- swears Ernst.
Patarkatsishvili asks to briefly explain the reason for the indignation.
“I’m indignant, because Malashenko is p..”, Ernst continues to swear. Badri proposes to send Malashenko and finish it.
However, later it turns out that it will not work to send Malashenko, since he is authorized for such work by the president.
In the next entry, which is published by Rucriminal.info, Patarkatsishvili tries to delicately convey this to Ernst. And in return, he offers encouragement from his superiors in the form of free accommodation at the state dacha. You will not believe it, but under Yeltsin, television managers did not have palaces on Rublyovka for hundreds of millions of dollars. And the opportunity to live at the state dacha was a significant bonus for them. Now everything has changed…
“I need arguments against Malashenko, the ones I gave, they parried,” says Badri.
The dissatisfied Ernst continues to bend his line: “I, as the author of “Songs about the main thing”, gave permission for such a concert, but there will be no half of the artists … There will be no original scenery. We turned to Mosfilm, they were dismantled, ”Ernst is trying to find at least some arguments.
“The fox (Lisovsky – Ed.) said that the scenery would cost a hundred thousand,” says Badri.
“How much?” Ernst becomes indignant. “Do you know how much all the “Songs about the main thing” cost? 120 thousand. And then … Let Igor (Malashenko-Ed.) Do this concert.
Patarkatsishvili is clearly tired of Ernst’s whims and he suggests that he himself call Malashenko and bring some convincing arguments. It can be seen from the voice that the disgruntled Ernst is giving up. Badri explains that Lisovsky and Shabdurasulov “attacked” him and offers Ernst an “encouraging prize”. “If there is an opportunity for you to live at the state dacha, will you go?”
“I don’t mind, of course,” Ernst agrees.
