Lviv Moskvofilstvo Against the Background of Information Dead Calm

The article reveals the social and political phenomenon of historical and contemporary Lviv moskvofilstvo (that is the creation of ideological and information foundation for de-nationalization of the Western Ukraine) and its threats to the national security of the Ukrainian state against the background of exceptional contribution by oligarchic local mass media: tele- and radio company «Liuks», 24th Channel, internet-resource zaxid.net and others (all of them belong to Lviv mayor A. Sadovyi). The author stresses the fact that the central mass media do not pay the least attention to this dangerous range of problems. They kept and keep to dead calm. The myths about Lviv as Ukrainian Piedmont are taken down from a pedestal that is connected with manipulative engagement of information space, venality, corruption of some journalists and very low level of political culture of Ukrainian society. New manifistations of historical and present-day hybrid moskvofilstvo are highlighted. The author disproves these myths and stereotypes through the prizm of historic personalities and present-day Lviv politicians, who became chief speaking trumpet of moskvofilstvo ideas in Verkhovna Rada. She treats this fact as a typical example of colonialism disease, which received a curative challenge from history to recover just through the war, but at this great time it has found very «little people» mainly among the authorities of our state. The ghost of moskvofilstvo under a light camouflage of literalism and globalizm steeply came out to the surface just in the times of Maidan, 2014, having found its realization in the ideological slogan of the official after-Maidan power authorities «yedyna kraina – yedinaia strana» and main-line premise: «the time for Cancellation of Kivalov-Kolesnichenko’s law on language has not come yet». All the central and local mass media gave maximum popularization and promotion to these destructive, fatal moskvofil slogans. Just in this verbal presentation the slogan of «modern moskvofilstvo» (D. Dontsov) was made public by Lviv local authorities of the time of Crimea annexation and the beginning of Moscow-Ukrainian war of 2014. The centre of their origin and formation is Lviv city administration (mainly its information escort). Just from here media information waves about the impertinence of Kivalov-Kolesnichenko’s language law cancellation were dispelled and just here the ideology of «forced reconciliation» with the enemy through the language factor was formed