Russian Weinstein. What will be led to harassment against Leonid Slutsky

Irina Guseva, Olga Timofeeva and Leonid Slutsky. Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS

A week ago, the Rain television channel said that two journalists of the Kremlin pool were subjected to sexual harassment by the deputy from the LDPR Leonid Slutsky, and on February 27, the deputy chief editor of RTVI, Ekaterina Kotrikadze, opened with similar charges. A story that in any country with developed civil society and an independent press would instantly become the number one theme, while developing a completely different scenario: state media try not to attract great attention to the situation, the State Duma deputies are defending a colleague and seeking the conspiracy of the American special services in history, and the Kremlin, according to the press secretary of Dmitry Peskov, does not follow the scandal at all. Republic lists the main facts and evaluates the potential meaning of this story.

The essence of the accusations

• “Rain” about Slutsky’s harassment anonymously told the producer and two journalists. The deputy touched one of them for the crotch when she went to his office. The second did not specify the details of harassment, noting that because of them she later experienced difficulties with work in the Duma. The producer said that on one of the air he tried to kiss her on the lips and touch her buttocks. None of them appealed to law enforcement agencies.

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