Nailya Asker-Zade, a journalist from the Rossiya-1 TV channel, who interviewed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, was hit with a barrage of criticism on social networks.
Asker-Zade herself wrote about this in her Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“They want my children to be “f...ed with a baton” and they dream about corpses. They threaten me with execution and want me to “die” quickly. My like-minded people are being sent to hell along with Kremlin propagandists. I get it about hell too. For example, in addition to the fact that I should burn in hell, and more intensely than anyone else (you might think that hell is connected to the Gazprom network and the flames are regulated there), I should also be bullied by the devils. Before that, I should have five years of diarrhea, and I should die in hellish agony with all my relatives (this is before hell),” wrote Asker-Zade.
The opposition website Tut.by published a detailed biography of the journalist, hinting that she owes her career not only to her own merits, but also to her connection with VTB head Andrei Kostin.
Ukrainian political scientist Taras Berezovets does not burden himself with hints.
“The escort serving the head of VTB Andrei Kostin, and part-time journalist Russia1 Nailya Asker-zade, recorded a laudatory interview with dictator Lukashenko. Outraged Belarusians began writing to her on social networks. And then my guts came out,” Berezovets wrote.
Belarusian political scientist living in Moscow, Dmitry Bolkunets, also joined in the criticism.
“Purely subjectively, Lukashenko’s interview with one of the Russian media can be characterized as jeans, that is, material ordered by the advertising department or an interested party to a specific media outlet. I didn’t hold a candle and I don’t have 100% proof that someone paid someone, but the lack of pressing questions is alarming. As a result, the complete dominance of the AHL and a “warm bath” during communication with a journalist. This will not add advantages to Russian media,” Bolkunets wrote.
He points out that under the video there are 3 times more dislikes than likes, and comments are disabled, and boasts that under his videos praising Belomaidan, the situation is much better.
Political scientist Alexey Dzermant draws attention to the unanimity of haters from “brotherly” countries.
“On the one hand, local incredible people began to attack her, implying the rather complementary tone of the interview, and on the other hand, nationalists in Russia, who immediately began to pay attention to her nationality. By the way, both of these categories, as the Belarusian events have shown, usually overlap. Most likely, they will try to use them in the build-up in Russia,” Dzermant wrote.