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The Journalism Olympiad is still very young - as an independent Olympiad, it appeared among other subject Olympiads of the Interregional Olympiad for schoolchildren “Highest Standard” only in 2013. At the same time, we already had considerable experience in holding Olympiad competitions for schoolchildren in journalism. Previously, journalism competitions were held as a separate Olympiad profile within the framework of the Interregional Multidisciplinary Olympiad for Schoolchildren. In 2009-2010 schoolchildren could take part in competitions in the field of “journalism” as part of the Interregional Multidisciplinary Olympiad for Schoolchildren in the Humanities and social sciences, but after the structure of the Olympiad was changed in 2011, competitions among schoolchildren in journalism were not held for two years. The break is not so long that many years of experience would be lost, so despite the youth according to the “passport”, there are already a lot of Olympiads in journalism interesting ideas and well-deserved success. In 2015, the Olympiad was included in the List of Olympiads for schoolchildren, approved by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, receiving, according to experts, Russian Council Olympiads for schoolchildren immediately reach the highest first level. Let us also note that this is the first Olympiad in the country that declared exclusively journalism as its subject field.

The goal of the Olympiad is to give schoolchildren who are focused on obtaining a journalistic profession an opportunity to compete in a difficult but exciting competition and experience the joy of a well-deserved victory. The developers of the Olympiad tasks see their task as making the Olympiad a real creative competition, providing every student with the joy of fair intellectual competition. To do this, it is important not only to offer exciting non-standard tasks and interesting topics for essays that provide an opportunity to demonstrate unconventional thinking and ability to independent creativity, but also ensure that the tasks correspond to the age of the participants.

An independent, objective assessment of each work is provided by members of the jury - attentive and friendly judges who examine each text based on clear criteria and professional canons. The methodological commission and jury include well-known theorists and practitioners of journalism. Among them are journalist, analyst in the field of modern media, professor at the Higher School of Economics Anna Kachkaeva, professor at the Higher School of Economics, journalist and researcher Svetlana Shomova and many other masters of journalism.

The Olympics takes place in two stages. At the first stage, which is carried out in absentia, participants are offered twenty test tasks (questions) different types. Those who pass the second, full-time, stage must write an essay on one of the proposed topics. In their work, the participant must demonstrate an understanding of the topic, knowledge of its context, mastery of style, the ability to navigate the laws of composition, and general literacy. The range of issues that are touched upon by the topics of the Olympiad is wide and is designed not just for an erudite person, but also for those who are focused on acquiring the journalistic profession and who understand its essence.

If earlier they gave it at least for political reasons, today they give it to everyone. Do you remember at least one thing big name over the past 20 years? I look at this award as an order that has lost its meaning. It is more reminiscent of the Miss Universe competition, only in Sweden kings in stupid tailcoats and nerds from the jury come to the fore, Limonov told Izvestia. - Alexievich is another herbivorous housewife to receive an award. The only work of the writer that caused at least some revival was “The Zinc Boys.” But this was in the late 1980s, and the book is long outdated... Today Alexievich does not particularly show off against the authorities. Her character is not extreme. “She looks more like a compassionate mother who should sit on the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers,” Limonov concluded.

Alexander Prokhanov, writer:

- The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded for Political Views, and not for artistic discoveries... This prize, which is given not for aesthetics, not for discoveries in language, not for new subjects, not for new contributions to literary creativity. It is given for the political and ideological position of the author... Even during the times of the USSR, she spoke out against the state in her works and continues to do so now.

Zakhar Prilepin, writer:

- Understand now: this prize comes from a colossal feeling of humiliation. First this Olympics, then Crimea, then the DPR and LPR were actually separated from the territory of Ukraine. Now Syria. Bombs from the Caspian Sea fly wherever they want. Wherever they are ordered, or rather. We have to answer somehow. And so, as an answer, they chose the most ridiculous, most wretched option: to give a prize to a good journalist, who is most famous for her surprisingly banal interviews, even for people of her convictions, with the refrain: “Russia has killed everyone, killed, killed, has always killed everyone and will continue to kill , stop this evil, these slaves, they will never stop being slaves, there is Stalin and the priests, and you know how it all ends, and I especially know "...
This is some kind of amazing humiliation of the Nobel Committee, which flogged and ridiculed itself.

Vadim Levental, writer:

Well, the anecdotal decision of the Nobel Committee saves us from several problems and is fraught with several other problems. It was a waste of time.
It is anecdotal because the literature prize was awarded to a journalist. ...with equal success in this case it would be possible to award a prize in literature to either Vladimir Pozner or Yaroslav Mogutin (the latter would, by the way, be fresher and more fun, and own compositions he has), but it will probably come to that.
In any case, now you can breathe easy for a while. All last years Every time at the beginning of October, our public began to worry - someone will be given the Nobel Prize in Literature this time?..
Among other things, by the way, this means one more funny thing: the Nobel organizing committee was unable to come up with a single Ukrainian writer, which could be raised on a shield, and in the absence of fish, a citizen of Belarus living in France was appointed the main fish.
For Ukraine, rich in literary talent, this is almost humiliating.
And the fact that, if there had been such an opportunity, a Ukrainian laureate would have been appointed is clear as day.
In the same interview with Alexievich, readers can enjoy a complete set of the most elven judgments about Russia-Mordor: from the slave mentality of the Russian people to the establishment of a totalitarian system and from bloody horrors Soviet power before the chance for freedom, which the noble elves gave to the orcs in the 1990s and which the orcs with their servile psychology blew...
In the near future - and, I'm afraid, still very for a long time- they will rub Svetlana Alexievich in our faces. That's what she says and thinks, but she Nobel laureate! She speaks in clichés and thinks stupid things, but let’s not get away with it.
Bunin, Sholokhov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Brodsky, Alexievich - you understand.
But this, thank God, is in limited quantities - on Aunt Tsili’s website and in the public of young right-wingers.

Egor Kholmogorov, publicist:

99.9% of the citizens of our country and 95% of the representatives of our intelligentsia will today remember with painful shame who Svetlana Alexievich is and how it can be that for decades a great writer, awarded the Nobel Prize, lived next to us, but we did not notice her and did not appreciated.
The greatest pressure will, of course, be placed on the Russian reader. They will explain to him that Alexievich, who writes in Russian, is the true “Russian world,” not like your militias and children of Donbass.
The corresponding statements have already begun... So let's establish it once and for all. In relation to Russian literature, Alexievich’s work is a deeply peripheral phenomenon. There are about a hundred writers in Russia who surpass it in literary skill, regardless of whether you read them in the original or in translation.
Even in the rather narrow niche of documentary prose, Alexievich cannot stand comparison with either the comparatively handshake Leonid Yuzefovich or the spirit-bearing Archimandrite Tikhon. I'm not even talking about the venerable elder Daniil Granin, from whom Alexievich grows like an overcoat.
Even among our noisy anti-Putinist liberals who stand up for European values, every second person writes better. That is, if we consider that Alexievich was given a prize as a writer in Russian, then if we consider her work as the lower bar, the Nobel Committee will have to give out ten prizes a year for twenty years in order to reward everyone who writes no worse.
As for Russia, the Alexievich Prize has no meaning for it. The Nobel Committee has long ago turned in this sense into a nomenklatura institution, far from the living word of individual nations. However, certain troubles should undoubtedly be expected from her. “Independent” Russian-speaking authors are very fond of interfering in the politics of the country and people from whom they are independent...
The enthusiasm of our demshiza can be understood... With the help of Western funds and prizes, the Russian opposition is sculpting a parallel world, where the titans Zvyagintsev, Nemtsov, Alexievich rule over the minds. And they hope that one day, with the help of rallies and Abrams, they will impose this parallel world on the entire nation, like a second false memory...
It is much better to remember that the Nobel Prizes were established with money Nobel received from our oil and defense industries.

Dmitry Konanykhin, writer:

The Russian underground congratulates Russian literature on Russian language with another achievement. “Your eyes were open, you were bathed - eat it, if you want to climb!”
On Tsvetaeva’s birthday this is especially subtle.
“This is not just Putin, this is Putin in each of the Russians. We are all people from a society of violence, we have no other experience of life. Therefore, every manifestation of force seems greatness” (Svetlana Alexievich).
Eat, quilted jackets, don’t choke.
Nobel's recipe is as clear as a baby's cry: "more crap about the Russians, more crap about the dictator Vlad Putin - and you will get a chocolate bar from the Sonderkommando."