Who organized the blue whale. Blue whale and VK thematic group: another case in Zaporozhye. Mothers, let's protect our children

Surely everyone watched the film “Nerve”, which was released last year. According to the plot of the film, the guys got involved in a harmless, at first glance, but, as it turned out later, very dangerous game. All you had to do was go to the NERVE app, complete tasks given to you by your viewers, and collect more and more likes. The principle is this: you become popular, and money is transferred to your account. Throughout the film, the tasks became tougher and tougher and, starting with the usual “meet a stranger in a cafe,” ended with “kill your best friend.” In case of disobedience, the nameless creators of NERVE could take everything from you: money, identity, they threatened to kill your family and friends. Of course, everything ended well for the main characters of the film. Well, how could it be different in Hollywood cinema?

But, no matter how cloying and strange this film may be, it can be said to be now based on real events. Similar games called “blue whale” really exist, and they, however, can lead to irreversible consequences - death. Actually, the so-called “Blue Whale” is one of them. And, unlike computer games, there is nothing in it that develops or supports the psyche. Teenagers do not play for money, and the outcome of the “blue whale” game is suicide.

Blue whale game and its details

A game called "blue whale" begins after sending a message. The player is then supposedly contacted by the game's caretaker, usually from an account that cannot be identified.
The curator also gives out tasks and explains the rules; There are about 50 of them - one per day (probably a reference to the book “50 days before my suicide”).
According to Meduza, there is an identical list of tasks - it was sent (in text and picture) by several VKontakte users who play and want to play Blue Whale.
The tasks involve causing physical harm to oneself (“cut f57 on your hand with a blade”), whales (“draw a whale on a piece of paper or cut it on your hand”) and instilled fear (“watch scary videos all day long with appropriate music”).
To complete some tasks the player must climb onto the roof of buildings. Some of the tasks are as follows: “you wake up every day at 4:20, watch a video, listen to music, and every day you make one cut on your hand, talk to a whale.”
The last task of the blue whale game is suicide.
There are original tasks, for example, some players are asked by the rangers to run across the road in front of a car and capture it on video (this type of entertainment is called “run or die” among teenagers).
If the user decides to leave the game, the “curator” promises to come to his home and kill his loved ones. As users of the Dvach imageboard write, in order to find out the address, the “curator” sends the user a link to a service that records the location or IP address.
One teenager said that a classmate of his younger brother, who participated in the Blue Whale, did not dare to leave the game precisely because of such threats - both are in the seventh grade of one of the Crimean schools.

Blue whale as a suicide group, dangerous for children

In the current age of technology, it has become very difficult to protect your child from all kinds of negative information. All these prohibitions a la “parental control” and methods of blocking sites stop working over time. If a child learned about something that undermines the psyche, it was not necessarily from the Internet. It is quite possible that a teenager will receive negative information from those around him, be it classmates or friends, who have no concept of “parental control.”

Unfortunately, over time, teenagers have become more prone to depression during adolescence. They find it themselves suicide group blue whale. Basically, the reason for this is the child’s needs that are beyond the parents’ ability, for example, the same purchase of a brand new iPhone. Because of their rich classmates, the teenagers eventually began to understand that they had to do something, and then it was not far from ridicule from the surrounding rich people who did not need to sweep the floors in the cafe. And then isolation, lack of self-confidence, bad mood and with all that it entails - the swirling of bad thoughts in the head.

I don’t know about you, but I noticed that children are more likely to jump out of windows, get hit by trains, hang themselves at home... Unfortunately, these statistics are only growing. Horrible groups began to be created on the Internet that deliberately persuaded teenagers to commit suicide. I didn’t go into details, but, as a rule, in such groups the child signed a “verdict” for himself.

What is suicide game blue whale: teenager writes to the group. He is gradually given tasks that he must complete online. After completing them, he was assigned a caretaker who talked about further actions, namely staging a suicide: cutting his veins, hanging himself, drinking a bunch of pills, etc. etc. Next, the teenager performs this theatrical action on camera, and then goes offline for a while, supposedly considered dead.

What is this deadly game blue whale

What kind of game is the blue whale - a deadly hobby for Russian teenagers? Death groups appear in in social networks despite government restrictions. The main source of danger is communities on social networks (usually blue whale death groups on VKontakte). The media correspondent tried to play himself - find out what came of it in the report “For leaving the “Game of Death”, a correspondent of one publication had to destroy his relatives.”

Other similar names are the game sea of ​​whales, quiet house. Anyone can join the groups, be it an adult or a child. After you decide to participate in the blue whale game, the “tests” begin. The so-called curators (or administrators) of death groups give tasks from the blue whale game group. You need to do them yourself offline, in real life.

How to play blue whale

What kind of game is the blue whale? Usually the first task is to draw a whale on your hand, the symbol of the game is a blue whale. Most children participating in death groups cut the whale with a blade. The second stage is a quest, searching for all kinds of messages from the blue whale group. The third and final stage is suicide, the obligatory and unchangeable ending of the game in death groups. Read more about the rules of the blue whale game. The game blue whale (alternative names sea of ​​whales, quiet house) is banned by Roskomnadzor as promoting suicide. On the social network VKontakte there are widespread groups that are engaged in identifying administrators and instructors of death groups: blue whale, sea of ​​whales, quiet house. After the campaign began, so-called death groups began to spread on Instagram.

What is the scary game blue whale

How to exit the Blue Whale game, have time to quit completing tasks and stay alive? Is it possible to leave death groups and survive? For about a year now, the topic of death communities has not subsided in Russia and Ukraine. Children in all regions are immersed in Internet games and begin to confuse the virtual world with reality. Most often, dangerous quests end in death, that's what a blue whale is. Therefore, there is only one question on everyone’s mind now: how to get out of the Blue Whale game and prevent a tragedy?

Start over. The game Blue Whale, also known as Sea of ​​Whale, Silent House, is a kind of terrible quest, the end of which is child suicide. Unique presenters and curators encourage children and teenagers on social networks to take part in the modern game, and then begin to demandly lead them to commit suicide.

Unfortunately, the Blue Whale game has become incredibly popular, and now children going through a difficult period in their lives are looking for groups on social networks. It seems to teenagers that they will understand, share their sad thoughts and help them cope with the situation... However, instead of help, children receive an even greater charge of aggression and negativity, and after this they certainly do not see the point in living further. They think and decide to take a terrible step. When you see this terrible picture, a natural question arises: is it possible to exit the Blue Whale game? The answer is yes, you can. This will only require ingenuity and courage from a teenager.

Blue Whale - list of tasks for teenagers from 1 to 50

Complete list of tasks for the blue whale (all tasks from 1 to 50)

Use a blade to cut f57 on your hand.
Wake up at 4.20 and watch scary videos.
Cut along the veins of the arm (not deep). Only three cuts.
Draw a whale on a piece of paper.
If you are ready to become a whale, write “yes” on your leg with a blade. If not, then you do whatever you want with your hand (lots of cuts, etc.).
A task with a code, like a quest.
Scratch f40.
Write in the status #I'm a whale.
I must overcome my fear.
Get up at 4.20 and go to the roof.
You need to scratch or draw a whale on your hand.
Watch scary videos all day.
Listen to the music they send you.
Cut your lip.
Poking your hand with a needle.
Hurt yourself.
Go to the largest roof and stand on the edge.
Climb onto the bridge.
Climb onto the crane.
Trust check.
I need to talk to the whale on Skype.
Sit upside down on the edge of the roof.
Again tasks with a code.
Secret mission.
Meet a whale.
They tell you the date of death, and you have to accept it.
At 4.20 go to the rails.
Don't communicate with anyone.
Swear that you are a whale
From the 30th to the 49th day of the game, every day you wake up, watch a video, listen to music, and every day you make a new cut on your hand and talk to the whale.

On the 50th day, an order is received to commit suicide. Only a few children realize that they can simply stop playing without letting it end in death.

Blue whale game what is it

The conditions of the “game” were communication with the curators leading the chat at 04:20, as well as carrying blades and making cuts on the hands. These are the terrible realities of the blue whale game, what a tragedy of our time this is! The basic principle is that the child, on his own behalf, writes a couple of messages on his social media page #blue whale, #quiet home, #yavigre #wakemeat420, #f57, #f58, after which a certain curator contacts him.
However, the matter cannot be solved simply by cuts on the hands. Not long ago, teenagers began to have new needs. Now one of the "quests" is "Run or Die". The teenager must run across the road close to the approaching car.
But what is this game, the blue whale, that has excited people all over Russia? This does not solve the main mystery - why do they do everything that the administrators of the “death groups” - often schoolchildren like their victims - order them to do?
But there are many clues in this story. Many of the boys and girls of a tender age have already encountered very “adult problems”. Misunderstanding of loved ones, uncertainty of the future and the first tragic love, which at this age seems to be the only one, can undermine even an accomplished person. And the student, oppressed by these problems, comes to the thought that it is not as good here as it really can be. And helpful administrators deadly groups already ready with entire albums of sad monotonous music, imaginary support and understanding and big amount pictures with depressing landscapes and words about hopelessness. That's what it is, a blue whale game for killing children by inducing suicide.

Deadly group of blue whales operating on social networks

There are several options for how to leave the life-threatening quest of the blue whale group for a teenager. The seemingly simplest option is to remove yourself from all thematic groups and inform your curator that you no longer want to play. Only such behavior can cause dissatisfaction with Internet manipulators. In this case, the administrators of the blue whale death groups may start making threats, start writing that they will find the child’s relatives and do something bad to them, even kill them. Of course, at such a moment all teenagers begin to think that their loved ones are not to blame for anything. Children will try to save their parents at the cost of their lives.
However, these teenagers need to know that the Blue Whale curators do not keep their word and do not follow through on their threats. It’s enough just to block them, throw them out of your head, just don’t read the messages and move on with your life, forgetting the deadly quest game like a bad dream, like a past adventure.

Blue whale and VK thematic group: another case in Zaporozhye

A Zaporozhye schoolboy, who also became interested in a VK group dedicated to the blue whale, cut himself on the instructions of a scary community. In Zaporozhye, the first case of an attempt to commit suicide was recorded on the instructions of the curators of the Blue Whale death group.

As it turned out, a 14-year-old teenager cut his left hand with a knife on the instructions of curators from the Blue Whale group on the Vkontakte social network. It turned out that the child joined the game blue whale, which he found in the VK group and became interested in scary tasks.

Doctors treated the boy and sent him home.

Let us remember that the so-called “death groups” have long been widespread in Russia and Ukraine. In them, teenagers who are at a difficult age are pushed into suicide, forced to perform various tasks, cut their hands with blades, run across the road in front of cars, and so on.

Blue whale - group of death as a weapon

At a recent meeting of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed tightening the Criminal Code of Russia and adding Art. 110.1 “Inducing or facilitating suicide.” Experts have been talking about this for a long time.
How to destroy the group of death - the blue whale? According to the Russian President, only such harsh methods can stop the further existence of “death groups” on the Internet. The scale of the tragedy is terrible: as Roskomnadzor reported, more than four thousand such communities have been closed since the beginning of this year alone. But they still aren’t getting smaller.
The Internet project “MediaGuardia” has calculated that in the Russian segment of the social network “VKontakte” alone, more than 70 thousand children of high school age are currently members of “communities of death”, and about 35 thousand in the Ukrainian segment. They have also opened in other countries where the share of the Russian-speaking population is large, from Estonia to Israel.
The majority of Blue Whale Death Group users are between the ages of 14 and 21. And today you can observe the “migration” of these guys to other popular social networks - Instagram and Twitter... At the same time, no one provides accurate data on the real number of deaths committed under the influence of the Internet; it is extremely difficult to make such calculations.
How did this Internet epidemic spread throughout the Russian-speaking world in just a year? And why were all the methods used by the country ineffective? The journalist talks about this with a regular expert of one publication. This is a specialist in human psychology and psychophysiology, heading one of the largest forensic psychiatry centers in the North Caucasus named after. D.R. Luntsa.

It turned out that this technology has long been known as behavior modification. It was invented by American behavioral psychologist Berens Skinner back in the seventies. Skinner was the first psychologist in the US Navy. In his activities he always opposed the assumption of any free will or any other “conscious” phenomenon.

How and when did the blue whale quests appear?

The starting point of the famous “death groups”, with the tasks of the blue whale, about which there are hundreds of rumors and disputes, was November 23, 2015. It was on this day in Ussuriysk that 16-year-old Renata K. passed away of her own free will. The girl is better known on the Internet and in the media as Rina Palenkova. Her headless body was found on the railway tracks near the Sakhzavod station. A day before the “death sentence”, she posted pictures on social networks at the place where she planned to lie under a train, and signed this post with the phrase: “nya.bye.”

This terrible post got into the imageboard threads and suddenly went viral. This happened with such force that not just my native Ussuriysk, but the whole of Russia learned about the girl who committed suicide. Through the efforts of anonymous users, people found out the address of the deceased’s page on a social network and tried in every possible way to find out what the actual reason for her death was. From the very beginning, unhealthy interest took on the character of mass hysteria. In just a year, the number of Rina’s “fans” has grown to over a million people. People liked not only the final part of this tragedy, but also its background. The day before her suicide, Rina experienced an exciting breakup with her boyfriend. This was the starting point for suicide. The time for tasks with the tag “blue whale” has begun.

The blue whale group still exists

It would seem that all found curators of the blue whale group are punished, the groups are actively blocked, why are death communities still functioning? And here we logically approach the events that are happening today. It’s not newspapers and Internet portals that earn views and popularity, but other groups on the same social networks and bloggers. At the same time, in Khabarovsk two children are already being treated by a psychologist after participating in death communities. This is a boy and a girl. Their parents noticed in time that something was happening to their children. Their condition was inadequate. The parents immediately contacted a specialist. Today, children's mental health is improving.
In popular social networks, the image of a whale is a symbol of depression, melancholy, the desire for freedom, and escape from problems. The most commonly used image is of a whale washed ashore. “Blue Whale” is what the “death group” calls itself, which is actively developing across all social networks of the country. Her task is no longer simple PR from stupid boys. No. The goal is now completely different - to take the life of your child.

They truly say: “Until the thunder strikes, a man will not cross himself.” It looks like this Russian proverb will be more relevant in the coming Year of the Rooster than ever before.

So far, all Russian society and power structures Russian Federation were focused on combating manifestations of extremism and terrorism among young people, linking this phenomenon exclusively with the Islamic religious factor, they missed a phenomenon that threatens to become a much greater source of social danger, capable of destroying young people without any flags and slogans of the “ISIS” about building a “just Islamic State."

The fact that one of the reasons for the growth of extremist and terrorist organizations, in particular, those banned in the Russian Federation " Islamic State"(IS), is the tendency of some young people to be suicidal, as has been said more than once among experts involved in the prevention of extremism and terrorism . This category of people in their desire to join the ranks of “IS” in Syria or in any other place was actually driven not so much by some Islamic idea as by a subconscious or quite conscious desire to die . It’s just that some people die silently, while others prefer to slam doors loudly as an edification or reproach to their family, the entire society or the state as a whole.

No sooner had the echoes of the December 2016 terrorist attacks died down in the Chechen Republic, in which law enforcement officers were killed and young people who swore allegiance to ISIS were killed, when already in early February Chechen society was agitated by videos of a certain sect of followers of a sheikh from Iraq who was killing himself in skull knives using an aluminum bowl. And just a few days later - a new misfortune: social networks were filled with messages about a suicidal group called “Blue Whale”.

“MAXIMUM REPOST and dissemination of this information. “Sea of ​​Whale”, “Blue Whale”, “Quiet House” - groups on social networks in which the idea of ​​suicide is promoted, people are invited to join a game, the end of which is committing suicide. At the same time, the game moderators have information about the player necessary to exert an emotional influence on the fragile child’s psyche. Dear PARENTS, we ask you to keep an eye on your children!” - these were the messages warning the population of the Chechen Republic and neighboring republics of the North Caucasian Federal District, to which, judging by messages on social networks, this game invented by someone unknown has also reached.

Some reports claimed that in Ossetia and Ingushetia there were cases of suicide committed by “adepts” of this game. Alarming signals about a new threat to Chechen youth reached the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, who also expressed concerns about this new phenomenon for Chechnya.

"Dear friends! Over the past few days, I have received hundreds of complaints from concerned parents. They are alarmed by a certain game called "Blue Whale", which is driving children to suicide. There are cases throughout the country where children who played it resorted to suicide. In addition, various sectarians have also become active on the Internet and are trying to create a split in Muslim society. These and other challenges challenge us to protect young people from their harmful influence. On this occasion, I invited to a meeting the Mufti of Chechnya Salakh Mezhiev, Advisor to the Head of the Chechen Republic, Imam Adam Shakhidov, Minister of National Policy, External Relations, Press and Information Dzhambulat Umarov, representatives of the republican media. I set them the task of intensifying explanatory work with the population, making everyone aware of the harmfulness of various “death groups” on social networks and various sectarians,” Ramzan Kadyrov informed.

The fact that this phenomenon caused so much noise at the beginning of 2017 does not mean at all that it did not exist yesterday or the day before. This problem was discussed in the expert community involved in the prevention of extremism and terrorism among youth at the beginning of 2016. For the first time, Galina Mursalieva sounded the alarm on this matter, followed by the coordinating secretary Yana Amelina. However, their voices, as well as their considerations, were heard by few people at that time.

I must say that I did not attach serious importance to this phenomenon, although I myself have more than once come across invitations to play similar games on social networks, considering it something like another crazy project of horror movie fans. But in fact, this game turned out to be not child's play at all, no matter how strange it may sound. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which the famous Chechen journalist and blogger Lema Gudayev cites on his Instagram page, in 2016 alone, 5 cases of teenage suicide were recorded in the Chechen Republic (2 girls and 3 boys), and these are only minors. “I will generally refrain from talking about the total number of suicides...” notes Lema Gudaev.

He also cites figures according to which, according to media reports alone, there are 15 cases of suicide among teenagers playing this game in the Russian Federation and about 90 failed suicide attempts. In Yakutia, a collective suicide attempt was prevented, in which it was planned to involve about 100 young people. But this is unofficial data: law enforcement agencies prefer to hush up the figures or at least try to link suicide cases with domestic violence or unrequited teenage love. No one could have imagined that a number of suicides that occurred in last years in our country, is associated with the appearance of this game, the symbol of which is the harmless and beloved “Blue Whale” from children’s cartoons. Likewise, some cases of similar suicides that occurred several years ago in the Chechen Republic were most likely attributed to the use of potent drugs such as spice, which cause a hallucinogenic effect.

What is interesting, however, is not how quickly this topic was promoted in last days, but the fact that in the context of this phenomenon, even as a version, there was no mention of the Islamic radical trace . Moreover, reports about the crimes of ISIS and the topic of “Islamist terror” were practically not mentioned at all in the media. Except that the day before there was a stir with hijabs, which quickly faded against the background of “ blue whales" Miracles, and that's all.

In fact, there is little surprise here, although there is some mysticism. As back in the summer of 2016, the head of the Caucasian Geopolitical Club, Yana Amelina: “The study of suicidal and near-suicidal communities on social networks demonstrates the complete similarity of their methods with the methods of IS propagandists.” Depending on individual inclinations, temperament and other personal characteristics, adolescents are led to the idea of ​​killing either other people (those recruited into ISIS) or themselves (a contingent of suicidal groups). At the same time, the conditionally “ISIS” and conditionally suicidal contingents may partially merge (the phenomenon of suicide bombers).”

The main conclusion that the expert makes is that, globally, the same forces are behind both directions. Thinking about what was left unsaid, I can assume that the puppeteers decided to curtail the IS project, since it generally achieved its results, practically dividing Syria into zones of responsibility, American and Russian, as was the case with Europe in the post-Nazi period. Subsequently, it is likely that these two camps of what was once one country will become independent states, competing and hating each other, like South and North Korea.

The question remains to be answered: What are these forces that so cleverly manipulate our children and our consciousness?

Even at the very beginning of the events in Syria, we made attempts to uncover those who were behind sites and content on social networks that called for jihad in Syria. As soon as we started asking difficult questions, some recruiters responded with memorized phrases: there was communication with some program . In other cases, they said that they were not competent to answer such serious questions, and promised to answer next time, in consultation with some competent source . But in reality, they simply stopped corresponding and interrupted all communication.

Their behavior and responses reminded me of the ways in which so-called Jehovah's Witnesses were recruited into their ranks. One day in 2004, representatives of the religious brotherhood of Jehovah’s Witnesses came to my house in Tbilisi, urging me to follow their teachings. When I began to ask questions about their ideology, thank God, having studied it before they visited me, they said that they were incompetent to answer these questions and would come next time with a more competent person, which, of course, did not happen .

The question that representatives of recruiters for Syria and Jehovah's Witnesses did not want to answer was practically the same. Recruiters for the war in Syria were asked the question: “Why do you talk about global jihad and the struggle for Islamic values, but do not speak out against the United States and Israel - according to your own statements, who are the main culprits of the troubles of Muslims - but blame Russia for these troubles?” . I asked the Jehovah's Witnesses: “In your magazine called “The Watchtower” it is written that the USA is the successor to the Roman Empire, which, in your opinion, is the “Whore of Babylon”, which is spoken of in the Bible. You blame the United States for all the troubles of believers, but why then are you not banned from the United States, and why do you live peacefully in the same country with this harlot?”

The answer, as I noted above, never came.

The principles and methods of all sectarian recruiters are identical: they provide simple answers to very complex questions. I myself had to face such a situation when, during a difficult period in my life, I turned for help and advice to one of the authoritative emissaries of Al-Qaeda. (banned in the Russian Federation terrorist organization; The vicissitudes of that time are outlined by the author in the book “Remove the Witness” - approx. ed.), who were then in the Pankisi Gorge of Georgia. This was not a request, but a demand to stop the fighters under his control, who were putting psychological and physical pressure on me and my comrades, spreading lies and slander against me, and sometimes kidnapping my comrades. In response to a request for help, I heard the following words: “You need to return to jihad in Chechnya, then all the rumors and accusations against you will be dispelled, and if you also become a martyr (that is, die in battle), then there will be no problems at all.” will".

A completely logical answer - in the style of recruiters. Probably, if I were ten years younger, if I did not have the experience of participating in the “Chechen Velvet Revolution” of 1991 and if I had not witnessed the first Chechen military campaign of 1994-1996, it would have suited me quite well. However, experience told me that running away from problems like this does not solve them, but only makes them worse. You can run away from a person, but you cannot run away from the Lord God and His Judgment! And suicide, that is, suicide, even if it is covered with good intentions of fighting for justice, is the path to hell! May Allah protect us from this!

They say that one of the Moscow officials involved in the post-war restoration of the Chechen Republic complained that there would soon be no Chechens. Seeing surprised looks, he explained: “There will be Chechen people, of course, but they will not be the same Chechens.” To some extent, he was right: the Chechens are no longer those naive highlanders who can be plunged into any adventure. During the days when there was a stir on social networks around the Blue Whale game, some representatives of Chechen youth pretended to be “naive sheep”, allegedly succumbed to temptation and entered the game. In fact, they were trying to discern the methods and goals of the recruiters.

One of these dialogues in Chechen was recorded and distributed via WhatsApp. A certain “supervisor” (also a Chechen), responsible for fulfilling the player’s obligations, persuaded the newcomer to move on to the second task. The young man claimed that he had not yet completed the first task, and if he completed the second, he would definitely die. To which the “looker” or, more precisely, the “observer” (as he calls himself), says that the task must be completed, otherwise it will be very bad for him or his family. When asked what will happen, he replies that it’s better not to even ask, that you can’t ask questions, even this is dangerous - you just need to complete the task. The player says: “This is death, you’re a Chechen, help me, why are you pushing me to death?” The “observer” replies that this is a game: “You must follow the rules of the game...”.

Thus, the “observer” intimidates the teenager, playing on children’s fears of losing their parents, hurting them, or upsetting them in some way because of an uncompleted task. Apparently, those who invented this game are well acquainted with childhood phobias, that is, they are highly qualified specialists in the field of psychiatry or at least psycholinguistic programming. This is also indicated by the choice of time of day when the victim must wake up for the decisive step leading to suicide: 4:20 am. This is the time of deepest sleep, when a person falls into an almost comatose state, in which hypnosis sessions can be easily carried out. In esotericism, this time is considered the time of activation of spirits and all evil spirits (from 3 to 4 am).

In this dialogue between the “new player” and the “observer”, the arguments of the “observer” himself, who, apparently, believes in what he says, are interesting. I can't help but feel that he's scared of something . He is not influenced by any persuasion of the victim for help, not even by the “magic word” that affects any Chechen: “Nokhchi vats ho?” - “Are you not a Chechen?” After this, any real Nokhchi (Chechen) is ready to give his life just to prove that he is the true son of his people. But this doesn’t help either! The question remains: What could frighten a Chechen so much if he is ready to send his fellow tribesmen to a stupid death?... One can only guess - is he not a Chechen, or is he so scared that he has completely forgotten about his origin? Both options may well be true.

However, I dare to suggest that this is not just a game in which young people with weak psyches meekly throw themselves from the roof or hang themselves from trees. I myself was a young man, prone to rash actions, caught in the trap of Chechen political and military battles of 1991-1999. And I remember well what could have pushed me to take such a step, if it could: precisely the fear of causing moral or other harm to my family and my clan. Only the fear of being branded with shame for centuries, which for a Chechen is higher than the sense of their own self-preservation. In this regard, I can assume that, perhaps, in the first stages of the game, the player receives some kind of compromising evidence, for the sake of concealing which he is ready to commit suicide.

I remember several years ago in one of the republics of the North Caucasian Federal District (we won’t specify) one young man killed his sister because she threatened to tell her parents that her brother smoked cigarettes. Recently I came across a case where the naive prank of one of my comrades almost turned into a disgrace for himself and his family. He was also lured to the social network, videos of his dialogues were recorded, after which they began to blackmail him, demanding a ransom. It is possible that after the ransom the blackmailers would move to another level of the “game”. And in this case, blackmail as the recruitment of extremists or the game of “blue whale” is built on the manipulation of the weaknesses of human nature.

However, all that has been said does not answer the question, who is behind this?.. For me, the answer in such cases has always been clear. It is voiced on the pages of the Holy Quran: “Satan is your true enemy.” Who besides Satan - the devil - has been playing on human weaknesses and fears from time immemorial? Satan hides under different guises, sometimes even posing as the true messiah - Jesus Christ (the prophet Jesus - peace be upon him), what can we say about some “Blue Whale”!

In this regard, the symbol chosen by the organizers of the Blue Whale game is interesting. Some experts talk about sea ​​creatures which, for unknown reasons, wash ashore every year, thus committing a kind of suicide. In fact, “The Whale” is nothing more than the biblical Leviathan.

In Christian literature, Leviathan is associated with a certain monster that should arise from the depths of the sea in the “last times” of world history. According to myths, it is powerful sea ​​monster, the largest animal on earth, will be destroyed in an apocalyptic battle when the End of the World occurs. In the old days, Leviathan was considered a whale. The text of Isaiah, from where this monster is known, speaks of the future of Israel, and, as you know, there are no whales off the coast of Israel. That is, in these lines, Keith acts as a symbol of evil, the embodiment of which in religious texts of monotheistic beliefs is Satan himself. According to many interpreters of the lines of the Bible where Leviathan is spoken of, the Hebrew word leviathan (“livyatan” - “לויתן”) means the devil (which is why in the old days whales and whalers were called the same - “sea devils”). To support my words, I will quote the words of the prophet Isaiah about the Day of Judgment: “On that day the Lord will smite with his heavy sword, and great and strong, leviathan the upright running serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and he will kill the monster of the sea” (Is. 27:1).

One last thing I would like to remind parents: do not forget that the greatest achievement of the devil is his success in convincing people that he does not exist. By this he wants to introduce into our consciousness the idea that since he does not exist, it means there is no need to seek salvation from the Lord!.. For me, as a believer, it is a sign that the theme of “Blue Whales” appeared immediately after the theme hijabs at school. In my opinion, with this the Lord seems to be telling us: “People, decide already, either you and your children are with Me, or I will leave you alone with the devil! There is no other choice! And the last thing I would like to remind parents and their children in connection with the problem that has arisen are the words of Jesus Christ (the prophet Isa - peace be upon him), who said, responding to the temptation of the devil, who offered to jump down from the wing of the temple, and thereby prove his chosenness: “Do not tempt your Lord!”

Do not tempt your Lord and do not play with the devil, finally decide who you are with - God or mammon!..