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...so they should not be

offered the full choice of it?

Right, this is my view.

But who is to...

Who is the judge?

I am the judge!

This is not for WikiLeaks...

But I for example, I'm against democracy.

I don't believe in one

man - one vote stuff.

Look at me, I graduated

from Law school,

I worked, I served in the army,

...in the special forces.

I was wounded.

I completed my studies.

I tired to improve myself...

I learned languages...

I've read Aristotle in the original Greek.

I am sure that I am better

and more worthy...

...than a man who didn't

try to improve himself.

This is my view.

Enough!

I know what WikiLeaks is.

I've formed my own opinion.

It is an absurdist picture of all

of us sitting here...

[ ANDREY SKIRKA,

Editor in Chief "Expert Kazakhstan" ]

...because all are interested

in other people's lives,

...instead of their own.

That is why WikiLeaks came to exist.

It's a totally useless thing.

It just reminds us of how bad we all are...

...paying attention to meaningless stuff...

...such as what one diplomat

told another diplomat...

...and it will change nothing in the world.

We spoke about it yesterday

- remember the book on Aristotle that I gave you...

...nothing has changed since the days of Aristotle

and nothing ever will.

From this point of view WikiLeaks

is an ephemera, a one-day-event.

Now the interest to WikiLeaks

has already vanished...

...because its not important.

It's superficial.

WikiLeaks is a superficial shell.

Such things do not impact

real changes of mankind...

...of human existence,

they don't promote real change...

The landscape is changed

by inspirational things.

For example, we invented a project called:

"how to organize our country"

this was an idea of Solzhenitsyn.

If we launch it right, this project

will inspire people...

...to change their surroundings.

But the WikiLeaks materials

do not inspire people...

...to change the world

that they are living in...

- Well, we are here - it means

that somebody is inspired!

Perhaps you're right.

I don't want to offend you.

So I'll put it this way:

I'm not inspired!

You travel, you are great guys.

But you are wasting your time.

You are wasting your life in vain!

Nothing will come out of it.

[ The next day ]

I'm trying to convince my friend

to start collaborating with you because...

Yerdos is taking a more journalistic stance

than me, he thinks that...

I'm a journalist by profession,

that's why I know for sure...

...that collaborating

with you will bring economic benefits.

I'm not politically engaged...

...but if we speak about money...

Circulation.

Yes, it can help our sales.

I wanted to ask...

...since we met last time,

have you talked to anyone else?

Because if "Expert" is going to participate - and as far

as I understand we are leaning in that direction...

we would like to talk about an approach where there

are not so many other partners.

I know that KazTag is already in on it, but that's OK,

since it's a news-wire.

If "Expert" joins the project,

would it be possible for us...

...to have the material exclusively?

Unfortunately we can't do that...

[ Zjenauzen,

Kazakhstan ]

Hi! Can't we pass, is the road closed?

There are oil-workers on strike here.

They have been on a hunger strike for a week...

According to this police officer, oil-workers are on strike here.

Strange that no journalist told us of this before.

Are you on a hunger strike?

- Yes, it's already the 13th day.

Are you filming me?

- You don't want me to film?

Don't film me...

I'm telling you, I'm afraid...

People want to talk and discuss...

but they are afraid...terrorized...

Recently, almost everybody was nicked...

...the whole crowd was loaded up into

a police van and beaten up...

...five men knifed themselves,

two went to the hospital...

...three refused to go to the hospital...

...now six persons plan to knife themselves.

Why do they knife themselves?

What else can they do?

We've hunger striked...

Nobody came to us,

neither the Mayor, nor the authorities...

We went to the Mayor - no result.

He is apparently also in cahoots...

And the TV doesn't cover it?

The TV? We asked them, but they say:

the Mayor forbade covering it.

They come and film, but they

only broadcast what the authorities say...

...they never broadcast our interviews.

What do the journalits say?

Do they apologize?

What apologies? They say:

we are ordinary guys, just like you.

Our job is to film, and our bosses decide

what should be aired.

Massive unrest has struck Zjenauzen.

In the central square while people were strolling

and enjoying street theatre

...the festivities were suddenly

smashed by a raging mob.

Unfortunately there is no other way

to describe these people.

[ Footage of killed oil-workers

posted on the Internet a few weeks later ]

What the artists and local citizens gathering

to celebrate the main government holiday...

...had done to enrage the mob

is beyond understanding.

It needs to be noted that the police

acted more than professionally.

They attempted to defend the stage, but the rioters

who were cheered on by their leaders...

...outnumbered the law enforcers

and crushed the fence.

After they had vandalized the stage they continued on their

rampage. They toppled the Christmas tree and the yurtas.

Then the most awful thing occurred:

the criminals started burning cars,

...attacking public buildings, burning shops,

private houses, cash machines.

Instead of celebrating independence day,

the citizens of Zjenauzen had to save themselves...

...from the merciless mob.

I got fired because...

...I wrote an article about...

...the conditions of work that Swedish journalists have

when they work in Israel and Palestine.

The journalists that I interviewed were very frank with me

and they told me about the different

things that they couldn't report upon.

The things that they could.

The censorship that they experienced at their work place.

When the material was published

two of the six journalists that I had interviewed

retracted their statements.

So you think they sincerely thought that

you misunderstood them

or took things out of the context?

I think that if somebody does an interview with you

and then you're entirely open and frank about it

after a while maybe you realise that

this is going to be shown on television

your boss is going to see this, your mother is going to see this

and you start understanding the consequences.

It is not just a conversation between you and your friends.

But anyway I just thought about it because

I think to an extent I made a very big mistake with that article.

and the mistake that I did was that...

...I did a very typical journalistic work...

...about journalists.

And the standards for doing journalistic work about journalism

has to be a hundred times higher.

Because they will immediately backfire

and they will start criticising what you do

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