Employees of the Zvezda television channel were detained on the Swiss border with a gun

The film crew of the Russian television channel Zvezda, led by Alexei Egorov, was stopped at customs at the entrance to Switzerland, according to the channel’s website. During the inspection, they found a gun.

Star employees tried to carry the gun in the luggage department. Customs officers found that the gun was dismantled and packaged. Wheels, a carriage and the barrel were transported separately from each other in special boxes.

The channel does not comment on the incident. For what purpose did Egorov and his employees tried to import the gun into Switzerland, as well as what stories intended to shoot in the country, is not reported.

"Star" is a state television channel owned by the Russian Ministry of Defense. Repeatedly reported falsifications by its employees.

On June 18, 2014, the Ukrainian Fifth Canal published statements by the employees of the Zvezda television channel Evgeny Davydov and Nikita Konashenkov, in which theyapologize to the people of Ukraine for the frank lies of the Russian media . Davydov and Konashenkov admitted that during work in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, almost all the information that they made public was fictitious. Ready texts were sent to them from the editorial office in Moscow. It was these two journalists who distributed the material on the alleged use of phosphorus bombs for the Ukrainian security forces near Slavyansk and the use of the Gradi plants against the civilian population.

In August of the same year, the Zvezda channel published a report, which stated that the Ukrainian army struck Makeevka from the Point-U missile system. The material was illustrated by video recording. In the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, they proved thatthe video was captured on the video of the Russian Proton-M Russian missile on Baikonur.