Tass director Sergei Mikhailov was dismissed because of his coverage of the Wagner uprising, which did not please the Kremlin. The Moscow Times writes this, citing various sources and returning to the “resignation” of the head of the Russian state press agency, which occurred on 5 July but went relatively unnoticed. That July 5, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko announced that Mikhailov had resigned and that Andrei Kondrashov, former spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 2018 election campaign, would take his place. No one explained the reasons for Mikhailov’s resignation, which he sat next to the deputy prime minister with an “anxious” expression.
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Various TASS, government and political sources now confirm that the real motive was the cover-up of the Wagner riot. «In the early hours of June 24, Tass was among the first to publish photos from Rostov-on-Don, proving that Wagner fighters had taken the center of the city and blocked the headquarters of the Southern Military District… They had forgotten that their main task is not to report the news, but to create the ideologically correct narrative for the Kremlin,” a government official told the Moscow Times. And Tsar Vladimir Putin’s ax fell on Mikhailov’s chair.
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2023-11-04 15:51:00
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