Anton Krasovsky

The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to check the incident with Anton Krasovsky, which occurred on the broadcast of the RT television channel. The guest of Krasovsky’s program “Contradictions” was writer Sergei Lukyanenko, who spoke about his trip to Ukraine in 1980. The author said that Ukrainian children had told him that their country was “occupied by the Muscovites.” In turn, Krasovsky suggested “choking” and “burning” such children. In response, Lukyanenko told the journalist that this is extremism. The press service of the department reported that Krasovsky’s statements were confirmed.

The Investigative Committee claims that a social network user wanted to check Krasovsky’s testimony.

Krasovsky’s words had wide resonance. Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the RT channel, said on the Telegram channel that she suspended cooperation with him, because neither she nor anyone else from the team “shared such a game”. Anton Krasovsky’s expression is wild and disgusting,” he said. “Perhaps Anton will explain what kind of temporary insanity he caused and how he ripped his tongue out.” Simonyan added that he does not believe that Krasovsky sincerely thought so.

Krasovsky apologized for his words, including separately to Margarita Simonyan and to everyone who “seemed wild, unthinkable and impenetrable.” I was really embarrassed that I somehow did not see this border with children, ”she wrote on her Telegram channel. – Well, it goes like this: you sit in the air, you move. And you can’t stop.”

Krasovsky’s words are discussed on social networks. The telegraph channel of journalist and literary critic Galina Yuzefovich “Ryba Lotsman” suggested that Krasovsky’s statements were not accidental, because it coincided with the week when the State Duma was discussing the law banning “LGBT propaganda” and that Krasovsky was openly gay. In addition, the channel noted that “Krasovsky’s words are precisely about children – the main Russian propaganda fetish.” “Gays, as you know, all without exception are welcome to children and they only think about how to harm them.” Also, the channel noted that children should not suffocate, there were questions to Sergei Lukyanenko, who said “get along with sticks.”

On the telegram channel “Hero of the Taler” they turned to Ksenia Sobchak – Krasovsky, godfather of her son Plato from Maxim Vitorgan: “Ksenia, did you find out if there are any procedures for changing godparents?” The channel added that such a choice of godparents always seems surprising, because “it was always clear that Krasovsky was not at least kind” and “has a garbage soul.”

Anton Krasovsky was one of the key members of Ksenia Sobchak’s campaign center when she ran for president in 2017-2018. The journalist was in charge of media strategy, but left headquarters in March 2018.

Sobchak also condemned Krasovsky on the telegram channel “The Bloody Lady”. “How crazy, “embarrassed” a person is from indulgence, as it seems to someone,” he wrote.

Anton Krasovsky is a pro-government journalist who actively supports the Russian military special operation in Ukraine and the Russian government. Last year, Krasovsky presented an investigative documentary, “Public Enemies,” focused on anti-vaccine. He went on air on pro-Kremlin Kontr-TV in 2013 and said he was “the same person as Putin and Medvedev”. As he later noted, for this he banned the profession for several years. In 2017, he stated that he has been living with HIV since 2011.

In September, Meduza* published a lengthy article about how Krasovsky went from a Dozhd journalist* to one of the Kremlin’s best propagandists.

* Recognized as a media-foreign agent in the Russian Federation