Director of the US and Canada Institute fired after article about Russian propaganda

Historian and political scientist Valery Garbuzov confirmed that he was fired from the post of director of the Institute for the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) at the initiative of the founder. August 29 “Independent newspaper” Valery Garbuzov published a column on the “lost illusions of the outgoing era” and “theses of total state propaganda” in Russia.

“Yes, yesterday an order was signed to terminate the contract with me. The reason as such is not indicated there, there is such an article of the employment contract – at the initiative of the founder, it is formulated like this, ”said Mr. Garbuzov TASS.

On site institute, Mr. Garbuzov is still listed as director.

“Today, on a wave of anti-Western sentiments in an atmosphere of pseudo-patriotic frenzy that has gripped the Russian population, which regularly listens to “old songs about the main thing,” and which with amazing ease, naively and thoughtlessly perceives the theses of total state propaganda, new myths are being created, and with them a modern utopian consciousness is being formed. “, – said in the material of the scientist in Nezavisimaya Gazeta. In the column, he also discussed the “restoration of Stalinism” in Russia.

Olesya Pavlenko