In Sweden, did not approve the blogging minister

54-year-old Carl Bildt, being the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, started a blog a few weeks ago where he began to write down thoughts about international life and his working meetings day after day. But the right to conduct it, as the soul says, the head of the Swedish diplomacy was immediately refused by a part of the local press. “Government members were given a political mandate, and therefore everything they do lies in the political sphere,” writes the newspaper Dagens Nyheter .

This opinion is shared by Kent Asp, a professor of journalism at the University of Gothenburg, who believes that a minister who speaks out about matters related to his professional activities cannot remain a private person. In his opinion, Carl Bildt in his blog was supposed to confine himself exclusively to topics of a personal nature.

The minister himself does not see "crime" in his notes: "I am not only the minister of foreign affairs, but also a man." He believes that becoming more open and accessible, using modern technology, is correct. “All communication is important, each in its own way,” said Bildt. “What is said in the parliament is of paramount importance, but, alas, it sometimes does not get into the newspapers.”
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It is noteworthy that the publication, condemning the blogging "career" of the Foreign Minister, also publishes materials in support of the minister. According to their author, such notes in the Internet diary are “only a supplement to interviews and official statements, but not their substitution.”

One way or another, the blog of Carl Bildt managed to become super popular - the number of its visitors exceeded 400 thousand, RIA Novosti reports.

The blogger activity of Russian politicians is also accompanied by interest. They entered LJ with much less noise, and their diaries are less known. State Duma deputies Alexey Lebedev and Viktor Alksnis , Nikita Belykh , leader of the Union of Right Forces, Valeria Novodvorskaya , leader of the Democratic Union, Valery Novodvorskaya (a controversial example, but let it be), a former member of the Federation Council Leonid Nevzlin , etc., regularly write to their blogs.