Recently, Russian blogger Alexander Gorny has gained great fame, famous for his notes and thoughts on the very famous opposition website Echo of Moscow under the nickname amauntain. Also, his notes can be read in the "Live Journal" (Livejournal) under the nickname gornyi.
What are blogs and bloggers?
The word "blog" is borrowed from the English phrase web log. It designates a kind of online diary on the Internet, where each third-party visitor to the site can familiarize themselves with the entries and leave a comment. Blogs are for the most part ordinary sites where their owners keep their personal notes. About what? Blogs can be run on a variety of topics. People who have such an online diary and regularly add entries to it are called bloggers.
There is such a guy
In fact, Alexander Gorny is just a pseudonym. Many bloggers publish posts not under their real name. In real life, his name is Alexander Gennadevich Sergeev. Why he took such a pseudonym for himself is not known to anyone for certain. But everyone knows that Alexander Gorny is a blogger. Sasha’s biography also has seven seals. But some information is still known. He was born on March 21, 1980. Our hero is married.
The only thing known on the Web is that he is a blogger from Moscow and considers himself a member of the Crimean Civil Asset. Sasha has an active citizenship and speaks on behalf of the public of the city of Koktebel. On the Echo of Moscow website, Alexander left fairly dry information about himself: he has been blogging since 2014, the city of residence is Simferopol, and his occupation is a blogger.
What is Alexander writing about?
Almost all of Sasha’s notes are devoted to Crimea. As you know, in 2014 the peninsula became part of Russia. Since then, this event has been given very close attention both in the Russian Federation and in Ukraine. Alexander Gorny did not remain indifferent to the problems of the inhabitants of the now Russian peninsula. Crimea and everyday life of the population are covered almost daily in its records.
Sasha’s writing style is unique. He kind of mentally conducts his dialogue with Russian President Putin, he always addresses him in writing. We can say that all articles are dedicated to the only reader of the blog - Vladimir Vladimirovich. Even if Putin is not mentioned, all readers can guess that it is he or, in the worst case, Sergei Aksenov.
Faced with bureaucratic lawlessness in Crimea in real life, the blogger Alexander Gorny, whose photos are presented in the article, slightly changed the writing style of his notes. This became especially clear to readers when they saw a letter with the piercing name “Putin, we are losing Crimea!”
Alexander Gorny. "Echo of Moscow"
As noted earlier, Alexander maintains his blog on the opposition site Echo of Moscow. If a year ago he actively supported the annexation of Crimea to Russia, admired the changes that have taken place in the lives of local residents, recently the tone of his notes has changed significantly. He began to often criticize local officials and the condition of roads.
When Alexander Gorny was traveling from Feodosia to Simferopol (this is 110 kilometers), then he got into 3 emergencies in 2 hours of travel. As he notes in his notes, this fact even made him swear. And how many tired tourists ply on broken roads in their cars on these potholes, and what curses can be heard from them to those who should be involved in landscaping?
Sasha obscured Stopham activists in Simferopol
In Simferopol, a small incident happened with Sasha. He had a skirmish with activists of the Stopham movement. Our hero parked his BMW car at the Council of Ministers building. When activists asked Alexander to rearrange the car to another place, he simply rude them, and even cursed him, because they were indignant at their request. The members of this movement thought at first that it was a former deputy of Sevastopol Vladimir Struchkov. But the latter denied any involvement in the event. He motivated this by the fact that he does not have such a car. The incident was filmed by activists on a video and posted on the Internet.
Later, blogger Alexander, under the pseudonym Gorny, admitted his involvement in the quarrel and noted that these activists themselves provoked a conflict. And the video is incomplete, there is only a piece of the recording on it.
Gorny sued
The Ministry of Ecology of Crimea planned to hold tenders for the choice of a company that will subsequently manage the improvement of Tikhaya and Fox bays, as well as Atlesha. According to Alexander, such activities of commercial structures will gradually destroy unique natural monuments and protected places. And this is a reasonable conclusion. He accused the Minister of Ecology Gennady Naraev of promoting the interests of commercial structures in the territory of Crimea. Gorny said that he had visited the ministry during the week and informed Narayev himself and his subordinates that the holding of this tender would not only cause material damage, but would also cause widespread protest from the local population and the public. In response to this, Alexander and the Koktebel public were accused of personal interest in this matter. A dirty lie poured on Gorny in the Crimean media. The blogger announced his readiness to sue Gennady Naraev in order to protect his honor, dignity and business reputation. What did these actions lead to?
Mr. Naraev is ready to meet with a famous blogger in court. But he also noted that each person has a biography, a personal file, a copy of the diploma, a passport and medical certificates. Information on these issues is on the government portal and in the personnel department. But he knows nothing about his opponent, except for his pseudonym and place of residence - Alexander Gorny (Crimea). The biography of this person is also not known to anyone. Gennady Naraev would like to know personal information about the opponent: his name, where he works, as in the future we will have to make several official inquiries about his activities.
What do Ukrainian media write about?
After the accession of the peninsula to Russia, a rather pessimistic and depressing note in the Ukrainian media about the life of Crimea and its inhabitants should be noted. In particular, the reason for this was a change in mood in his notes by a famous blogger. As ukrosmi noted, a “pro-Putin blogger” from the Crimea stated that after the “annexation” of the peninsula by Russia, life there is getting worse every day. It is reported that Alexander Gorny, who ardently supported the events of 2014 in his notes, allegedly admits that the economic situation on the peninsula leaves much to be desired. Allegedly, food and alcohol prices soared several times, because of this and Crimea will not see tourists again, as in the past season. According to Gorny, "tales of crowds of tourists" are specially invented by local authorities. They do this in order to knock out the budget from Moscow.
The Ukrainian media also picked up Alexander’s friction with local officials and presented the information in such a way that he was very dissatisfied with the authorities and constantly criticized the work of the Crimean administration.
Alexander Gorny was offered the post of mayor of Koktebel
Sasha received an offer to participate in the competition for the post of mayor of Koktebel. It came personally from the head of the Feodosia administration, Stanislav Krysin. According to the blogger, he came to Koktebel 8 years ago, therefore he knows the village very well and its problems. But, unfortunately, he is afraid to take such a big responsibility. The blogger Alexander Gorny believes that the village is doom for any mayor. If we analyze the activities of the previous leaders of Koktebel, then everyone suffered an unenviable, and even tragic fate. One was put for a bribe, the other, having got into such a serpentarium, decided to quit of his own free will, the third was found hanged, the fourth was again sent. Here he is, the hero of our article - Alexander Gorny! The biography of his past years, although little known, but in the present tense it is very eventful.