Remembering the beginning (to the thirtieth anniversary of television of the Republic of Ingushetia)

The presented material is the end of the memoir essay by Tamara Malsagova, the beginning of which was published in the previous issue of the journal (No. 3, 2022). The author dedicated the first part of her memoirs (“People, Destinies, Connection of Generations: To the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Television of the Republic of Ingushetia”) to the fates and professional activities of her colleagues in the Ingush editorial office of Groznensky TV in the period from the late 1950s to the early 1990s. The part of the essay published here - “Remembering the Beginning” - corresponds to a relatively short, about three years, period of time (1992-1994), which, in terms of the intensity and fateful significance of events, surpassed the decades of peaceful life. The birth of a new republic - Ingushetia - was accompanied by a number of important geopolitical decisions, and it was impossible to implement them without creating a television and radio broadcasting platform in the regional media space capable of countering terrorism, working to create and de-escalate an armed conflict. Such a platform was the new branch of the federal television and radio company Russia - the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Ingushetia. The author tells why, during the division of the two republics, she had to continue working for some time as the Chief Director of the Program Directorate of Broadcasting of Grozny TV. Only in the spring of 1993 did Tamara Malsagova officially head the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Ingushetia as president of the television and radio company (1993-1995). The author highlights the previously uncovered production and management aspects of the work of the television and radio company, characterizes the key points of the media policy of television in the Republic of Ingushetia in the first half of the 1990s, details the structural transformations and difficult organizational work of the transition period, shows the features of the actions of the central and local media in a situation of military conflict are shown. The author emphasizes the contribution to the production of military news and correspondence, which was made by the staff of the novel, newly-created television and radio company in conditions that were as close as possible to military field conditions and required complete dedication. The author notes that television workers’ activities in Ingushetia in these difficult years included direct work on the air, the creation of dozens of reports from “hot spots”, assistance to journalists of central Russian and foreign media, support for television broadcasting from Nazran on RTR, NTV, REN TV channels, as well as in leading foreign companies (BBC, Associated Press, France Presse, CNN, Reuters, CBS News, etc.).