“Pure disgrace and an impossible measure,” Pozner and Kiselyov spoke about Lukashenko’s actions
The First Channel film crew was expelled from Belarus by personal order of President Alexander Lukashenko.
This opinion was expressed on air by the famous Russian television journalist Vladimir Pozner on the Ekho Moskvy radio station, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It seems to me that the way the President of Belarus, Mr. Lukashenko, behaves simply does not fit into any gates. It seems to me that his ideas about the coronavirus are, to put it mildly, wrong. I believe the order to expel this group is his personal order. No one else would have dared to do this in Belarus without him. This is pure disgrace, this is censorship, this is an attempt to silence the media,” Posner said.
Dmitry Kiselev, director of the Russian international news agency Rossiya Segodnya and deputy general director of VGTRK, also condemned Lukashenko’s actions.
“Deprivation of accreditation of a Russian journalist, a representative of Channel One in Minsk, is an impossible, extreme measure, clearly an excessive reaction. This can go too far. Don't need it now. And I never supported this step by Lukashenko,” Kiselev wrote in his Telegram channel.
Let us remind you that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus deprived the film crew of the Russian Channel One of accreditation and expelled journalist Alexei Kruchinin from the country.
The reason was a story about the fight against the coronavirus epidemic in Belarus, which the journalist criticized. In response, Belarusian state television accused the Russian of spreading fake news.
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