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The editor-in-chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets Pavel Gusev headed the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense
On Wednesday, the editor-in-chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets Pavel Gusev was elected chairman of the Public Council under the Russian Ministry of Defense.
“I would like to assure both the Minister of Defense and the Public Council that I will make every effort to ensure that the Council is strong and mobile,” Gusev said after being elected at the first meeting of the Public Council.
“We must create the climate around the Ministry of Defense that it deserves,” he said, adding: “The Ministry of Defense today is the most powerful structure in the country, which needs strong public support.”
At the meeting, deputy chairmen were also elected: Makhmud Gareev - president of the Academy of Military Sciences, Alexander Kanshin - member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation and Alexander Prokhanov - editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Zavtra".
On April 1, information appeared that the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation could be headed by the editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda Vladimir Sungorkin . Sungorkin then called it a “misunderstanding.”
Pavel Gusev became a widely discussed media figure after the article “Political prostitution changes gender” was published in Moskovsky Komsomolets in mid-March. It talked about three United Russia deputies - Ekaterina Lakhova, Irina Yarovaya, Olga Batalina. The State Duma called on the editor-in-chief to apologize for the article, since its author, according to parliamentarians, insulted female deputies. However, Gusev, in an interview with PublicPost , said that he saw no reason for an apology and that the article published in MK did not insult women.
After this, State Duma deputies asked the prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to look into advertisements about intimate services in the publication, turned to law enforcement agencies with a request to check Moskovsky Komsomolets for taxes , and also called on the Moscow mayor's office to deprive MK of its premises .
On March 27, at the congress of the Moscow Union of Journalists, Pavel Gusev was unanimously elected chairman.