Zhanna Agalakova

Zhanna Agalakova gave an interview to the BBC. In it, she stated that she did not regret her decision to leave Channel One shortly after the start of the military special operation in Ukraine.

said the journalist.

He noted that Vladimir Putin was already dissatisfied with his work during his second presidency. He didn’t like that any little thing connected with the president (“Shaking hands with someone, going somewhere, having tea with someone”) was deemed worthy of getting into the news.

According to Agalakova, her reluctance to make propaganda was one of the reasons for her move to Paris, but even there she was not satisfied with the one-sided presentation of information on Russian television.

The journalist admitted that he sometimes continues to watch Russian news channels.

Agalakova also spoke of extensive anti-Russian sanctions – in her opinion, they did not put the Russians against the government of their country, but only against the West.

At the end of the interview, the journalist advised the Russians to “turn off the TV”.

Zhanna Agalakova has been working on Channel One since 1999 (at that time it was still the ORT channel). She hosted and later worked as a reporter in New York and Paris. His dismissal became clear on March 15. That same month, the journalist gave a speech at the Paris office of Reporters Without Borders, where he urged the Russians to “not be zombies”. Zhanna hides her current location.