television channel The RT removed Anton Krasovsky's film about Russian sports after reports that the TV presenter, who called for killing children, was returning to air. to this . drew attention The Agency
In this film, published on November 1, Krasovsky himself appears, he interviews the heroes. On the morning of November 2, Radio Liberty published news about the release of Krasovsky’s film. In the evening, journalist Ilya Shepelin wrote that Krasovsky had been returned to the air, accompanying his tweet with a screenshot from the film. news about this RBC also wrote . After this, RT deleted the film.
“Friends, no one brought anyone back anywhere. This was a program that was filmed a long time ago. Don't worry, everything is fine with me. Continue to rejoice,” wrote . Krasovsky himself
On October 24, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan announced that she was stopping cooperation with Krasovsky because of his calls to kill children from Ukraine. On the same day, the head of the Investigative Committee, Aleksnadr Bastrykin, ordered to check the TV presenter’s statements.
Bastrykin’s attention was drawn to Krasovsky’s words in a conversation with writer Sergei Lukyanenko. He said that as a child he traveled to Ukraine and local children talked about the occupation of the country by “Muscovites.” Then Krasovsky replied that such people should be “thrown into a river with a stormy current” and “slaughtered and burned in Smerekov’s hut.”
Updated at 11 p.m. Added information about publications by Radio Liberty and RBC.