TV presenter of Channel One committed a demonstrative betrayal of Russia
The host of the popular program “Fashionable Sentence” on Channel One, Alexander Vasiliev, wrote a letter to the municipality of the Lithuanian city of Visagian, where he condemned Russia’s actions in Ukraine. The letter was immediately posted on the official website of the mayor's office.
This was reported by the Delfi publication, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Unprecedented ambitions to recreate a vast Empire are causing a military occupation that is right now destroying the independent state of Ukraine. This war will certainly also cause unprecedented isolation of Russia and, moreover, could lead to a deadly nuclear war on planet Earth. As a pacifist, I am firmly against all wars; they must definitely be stopped. I am not associated with the leadership of Russia, have not received any government awards and do not receive assistance for my Foundation for the collection of Ancient Costume and Fashion History from Russia. I have never been a member of any party, I myself was an emigrant from the Soviet regime to France in 1982 and have had Lithuanian citizenship for over 20 years. I strongly oppose aggressive war and pray for the security and integrity of borders and respect for the cultural heritage of Europe!” – Vasiliev wrote.
However, in fact, this stream of pathetic eloquence is not explained at all by pacifism, but by a banal desire to preserve property. The fact is that in Visagiana Vasiliev keeps his collection of Ancient Costume and Fashion History, which he himself writes about.
“We ask that this most valuable private collection be preserved on the territory of Lithuania, that it not be degraded, and that, according to my will, after my death, I planned to transfer it to Lithuania as a unique Fashion Museum in the Baltics,” writes Vasiliev.
His claims of great love for Lithuania are equally hypocritical. The TV presenter keeps his collection in this impoverished country, apparently due to low real estate prices, but at the same time he prefers to be in France.
Political scientist Alexander Nosovich addresses Vasiliev’s letter to the management of Channel One.
“Is fashion historian Vasiliev still working on Channel One? If so, then on what basis do you, a state-owned Russian TV channel subsidized from the budget, cooperate with a citizen of a hostile state who declared your country an aggressor and occupier?” Nosovich wrote in his Telegram channel.
He also appealed to the government of the Kaliningrad region with a demand to ban a private fashion museum in the resort Zelenogradsk.
“Alexander Vasiliev, a citizen and patriot of Lithuania, which has already staged an air blockade of Kaliningrad and is considering a land blockade. The man wrote: he is not connected with the Russian state and does not want to be connected. We need to meet him halfway,” Nosovich wrote.
A year ago, a scandal erupted in Kaliningrad due to statements by Vasiliev, who not only supported the restoration of the Teutonic Order castle in the city center, but also rudely cursed those who opposed it.
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