Tear of "Komsomolskaya Pravda"

The arrest of Gennady Mozheiko and the blocking of "KP in Belarus" are shaking the foundations of the Union State. An employee of the branch of Putin's favorite newspaper was in Moscow last Thursday, and the next day he was already in a Minsk prison . The Kremlin cannot explain how he got there. The Lukashenka Ministry of Internal Affairs says that Russia declared Mozheiko an undesirable person and the journalist allegedly came to his homeland, where a criminal case was initiated against him for an interview with a classmate of Andrei Zeltser, who shot a KGB officer. Scandal quotes.

Vladimir Sungorkin , editor-in-chief of KP, October 2:

“A few days ago we thought that some kind of protracted misunderstanding was taking place, but now I think that everything that is happening with Komsomolskaya Pravda is arbitrariness. I don’t understand what caused it. This is an inadequate reaction to an absolutely innocent "Note. There are literally a few words of the criminal's classmate: that he was a very good guy at school and she doesn't understand what happened to him. And for these words, our journalist is in a pre-trial detention center, and the website of Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus is blocked."

Him , October 2:

“We don’t know yet who detained him and how he was taken out of Moscow. We don’t have such information, and we couldn’t get it.”

Maria Zakharova , representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, October 2:

“Answering numerous questions about the detention of an employee of Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus, I would like to say that we are talking about the Belarusian media and citizens of Belarus. At the same time, the newspaper operates as a branch of the Russian publication. In this regard, we proceed from the fact that the rights of journalists will be be observed in accordance with generally accepted international standards."

Margarita Simonyan , editor-in-chief of RT, October 3:

"If it turns out that the journalist Mozheiko was indeed kidnapped from Moscow (it is not yet known for certain), then this is a completely different story. An unbearable story. Let me remind you that in our country, the enemy of the entire United States, Snowden, is already sitting out the third American president and even arrogant and powerful America does not come to steal his head from Russia. There is no extradition from the Don. For there is nothing."

Dmitry Mezentsev , Secretary General of the Union State, former Russian Ambassador to Belarus, October 3:

“I agree with the comment of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova: in order to draw exhaustive conclusions, one must have complete information. I believe that the investigation of Belarus will provide the necessary data on this episode upon request ... Whatever, according to a classmate, a person in the past, if he deliberately went to kill a law enforcement officer, then all the words of a classmate can be left on her conscience.

Dmitry Peskov , press secretary of the President of Russia, October 4:

“We don’t have reliable information about where the journalist was detained. We simply don’t know. I would like to draw special attention to the fact that we are talking about a citizen of Belarus, therefore, de jure, we are not able to make inquiries through our diplomatic mission, let alone deal with protection of interests.Still, we are talking about the fact that he was detained, he is a citizen of Belarus, is with the special services of Belarus, this country ... In any case, we are talking about the arrest of a journalist, and, of course, if this is connected with his journalistic activities ", then such actions certainly cannot be approved. But, I repeat once again, we do not know the details, we do not know what he is charged with, we are talking about an intra-Belarusian plot."

Edition Readovka , October 4:

"The operation to detain and evacuate from the territory of the Russian Federation the journalist of" KP in Belarus "Gennady Mozheiko was carried out by the Belarusian KGB, they also took him to the notorious detention center on Akrestsina in Minsk. As informed sources told Readovka, there was no transfer of the journalist from the Russian security forces to the Belarusian did not have".

Aleksey Begun , Head of the Citizenship and Migration Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, October 4:

“As far as we know, Mozheiko left the territory of Belarus for the Russian Federation, where he made an attempt to fly to a third country. However, taking into account the decision taken earlier by the Russian law enforcement agencies about the undesirability of staying on the territory of this country, the law enforcement agencies of Russia refused to allow him to leave the territory Russian Federation and ordered to leave the territory of this state. Mozheiko left the territory of Russia in accordance with the established procedure and arrived in Belarus, where he was subsequently detained."

"Komsomolskaya Pravda" (from a note about Mozheiko's meeting with a lawyer), October 4:

"Our colleague was detained by the KGB on Friday, October 1, 2021. Where the detention took place - in Moscow or he was on the territory of the republic - is not disclosed."