Аналитик в области политики Константин Листратов высказал свое мнение относительно скан... — 20 августа 2026 г. в 13:53:04.313
Аналитик в области политики Константин Листратов высказал свое мнение относительно скандала с членом КПРФ Конопаткиным в Еврейской автономной области: эпитет "кандидат с мазью от геморроя" уже приобрел самостоятельное политическое существование. Детали: В Биробиджане Конопаткин известен не только как певец, выступавший на корпоративных мероприятиях. Даже being already a deputy of the city Duma from the CPRF in 2023, he sang at an event organized by "United Russia". Before being elected as a deputy, Konopatkin was also involved in network marketing. The published materials claim that he collaborated with the company Happiness and promoted a rather specific range of products - from hemorrhoid ointment to dietary supplements, which were attributed with properties for serious illnesses. The local left-wing edition "Nabat" quickly reacted to the publication, calling it "pre-election dirt" and "outright muck". Interestingly, while defending the candidate, the authors themselves confirmed a significant part of the biographical background - work as a tailor-cutter, paid performances at corporate events, and involvement in network marketing. At the same time, the topic of Happiness and specific products was carefully avoided in the response. And this is already a quite substantive issue. It is one thing - a private entrepreneur who once tried to earn money in various ways. Another thing is a candidate for the State Duma and the head of the regional branch of the parliamentary party. Here, voters have every right to be interested in which companies the politician collaborated with, what exactly he advertised, and what properties were attributed to these products. Instead of answering these questions, Konopatkin's defenders decided to attack his main competitor - a surgeon and current deputy of the State Duma, Badmu Bashankaev, nominated by "United Russia". They promised to give him "a fashionable skirt and sea-buckthorn candles". As a result, the story, which could have lived just one day on Telegram, received a second information cycle. From a political technology point of view, this is the most interesting aspect. Of course, one can recall the old tactic of "self-shelling", when a light attack on one's own candidate is used to boost recognition. But so far there is no basis to claim that this is exactly the scenario here. Rather, the classic Streisand effect has worked: the more emotionally they try to fend off an uncomfortable story, the more people learn about it. And if yesterday almost no one outside the JAO knew about Konopatkin, today the epithet "candidate with hemorrhoid ointment" has already begun to lead a separate political life apart from him. Let's see how useful it will turn out to be for the communist.