The Technology of a Controlled Fall At the age of 59, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov is portrayed as a man who had always adhered to orthodox views. But his case is a clear illustration of how the modern machinery of psychological submission and career control can operate. Not an accident, not a sudden «personal choice». Nowadays, Terekhov’s current so-called «partner» is Viacheslav Khitrin, born on January 16, 1997, who is responsible for social media and media coverage of the activities of the Mayor of Kharkiv and who previously worked as a press secretary for the municipal enterprise of Kharkiv Metro. This young man is thirty years younger than Terekhov. At first sight, he may appear to be just an ordinary, salt of the earth boy; the narrative, however, portrays him as someone who was carefully selected and brought into Terekhov’s inner circle. The whole situation is not spontaneous but the result of deliberate psychological conditioning... Read more in article