Zhanna Agalakova told the BBC that Russian state television outlets 'brainwash the population.'
On the one hand, there was the Ukrainian war of ''ruins" as well as, ''total disaster, death and tragedy". On the other hand, there was the Kremlin narrative of the"Russian military that was cheered by the local population with flowers...and there is only something positive and great."She also described the pressure at her channel to follow the Kremlin narrative that the war was a necessary conflict to"demilitarize" and"denazify" Ukraine.
Asked what advice she would give her fellow citizens in Russia who are fed a diet of Moscow's messaging about the war, she said,"Switch off TV, because it is a brainwashing machine. Just don't listen. Find other sources of information. Look at the internet and open your heart."has contacted Channel One for comment.
Agalakova is not the only former staff member at the channel to take a stand against Kremlin rhetoric. On March 14, a senior producer at the channel,She was detained by police and questioned for 14 hours before being fined 30,000 rubles . She has since been hired as a freelance journalist for German newspaper Die Welt.
Guests and hosts on another Kremlin-backed channel, Russia-1, have been pushing anti-Western rhetoric and boasting about Moscow's missile capabilities.that the U.S. would cross"a red line" with the proposed supply to Ukraine of Multiple Launch Rocket Systems which would result in a"very harsh response" from Russia.
Russian journalist Zhanna Agalakova poses during a photo session in Paris, on March 22, 2022. In an interview with the BBC, she urged Russians not to watch the propaganda about the war in Ukraine.
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