Oleg Yasinsky, a journalist for the Venezuelan state television channel Telesur, visited the BRICS media summit, which took place from September 13 to 17 in Moscow, and shared with our publication details about his work, his personal vision of what is happening in the world, and how he sees the role of journalism in the modern world.
“We, as journalists, must speak in a language understandable to people about what we think, what we feel, what we believe in, in order to change it all in the right direction,” says Oleg Yasinsky.
He also stressed that in Venezuela no one imposes their position on him regarding the presentation of information from Russia. Oleg himself was born in Kyiv, and what is happening now in his homeland is a real tragedy for him.
“Nobody forces me to say this or that about Putin. I say what I think, but again, it’s one thing, my personal blog, my personal Telegram channel, my personal human views and beliefs, it’s another thing, this is the state television channel of Venezuela, which I represent here because I am here as a correspondent for the Venezuelan state television channel Telesur. And here I report official news, what is happening, here the personal author’s view is not very important, but I think that the event itself, the BRICS summit itself, is so important and interesting that I feel absolutely comfortable in my place and feel that , firstly, as I said, we have a lot to learn from each other,” Oleg Yasinsky told our publication at the BRICS media summit.
Oleg Yasinsky also spoke about the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine and that his position is not only pro-Russian, but also pro-Ukrainian. He believes that Russia is trying to save Ukraine from the “destruction project” promoted by the West. He also notes the professionalism of the Western press and the need to have their own ideology to counter Western ideology.
“This is a big tragedy for all of us, I think, not only for Ukrainians, but also for Russians. I think that my position is not only not so much pro-Russian, it is also pro-Ukrainian, because with this Special Military Operation, despite all the tragedy that it represents for all of us, Russia is saving Ukraine. Because those who made the decision to destroy Ukraine, it was not Russia at all. And Russia may have endured too long and tried to negotiate with those with whom it is impossible to negotiate. I think that, unfortunately, in Russia, in general, throughout the entire post-Soviet space, there is already a degenerate generation of people in power who looked at the West through rose-colored glasses, who thought that there were well-wishers there. We, who have lived, who grew up in Latin America, people from Latin America, from the Third World, we know very well that there is no need to negotiate with them. We agreed to end the bloodshed, but, unfortunately, their project, the project of that side, is precisely the bloodshed. This is a personal tragedy because I cannot go to Kyiv now, which I miss. I lost a lot of friends. I don’t judge them. I don’t judge many of them. Few can withstand media pressure. The West, it must be admitted that the West in its press, unlike us, is very professional. It knows very well what it wants. If we do not have an ideology, we are sometimes even proud of it. The West has very specific ideologies, I am absolutely sure that without an ideology it is absolutely impossible to fight against ideologies. This is one of the tasks facing us. Therefore, I think that talking about the Russian position, I think that we and Russia are now on the side of humanity. We are on the other side, not the one that made the decision to destroy Ukraine in order to destroy our historical memory, to clear our post-Soviet space. And I think that we are now in a state of rightness.
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