Alena Minkovskaya, the 37-year-old daughter of the legendary figure skater Irina Rodnina, gave an interview in which she shared her memories of working for RT. Alena Minkovskaya’s family moved to the United States when she was four years old. After graduating from university, she first interned at RT, and then ran her own program there. Irina Rodnina Currently he is a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
— Alena, you worked for RT, albeit for a long time. Tell me why you ultimately decided to leave there?
— I worked there for a little more than three years. She came at the very end of 2008, when Obama had just become president in our country, and Medvedev was president in Russia. This was my first job after university. I knew little about journalism. It was still an open moment in the world – diplomatically it looked like there would be some kind of combination of American and Russian relations, the concept of peace. This was very interesting for me. I worked for RT America, this is the American version of the channel. And we were just showing in America. All the news and stories that we showed were also about American politics and what was happening inside the country. We showed a lot of really, really important stories. And I really believed that we were doing important things at that time. But of course, we didn’t talk about Russia at the same time. On the one hand, because the RT America channel was for Americans and about America. But of course, there was a conflict, because we were working for a channel, the money for which came from the Russian state. I think I didn’t really understand it at the time. Or maybe it was a compromise after all and I just convinced myself. At that time, very famous American journalists came to my show. When the political situation began to change dramatically, I realized that I was uncomfortable working here and that I needed to leave. And in 2012 I left for another job.
— Was there some kind of trigger? Did something happen for you to make the final decision? Or was it an accumulated feeling?
— There was an accumulated feeling. And at that time I was just given an offer for another job. I had to somehow pay for my apartment, for everything. As soon as another offer appeared, I immediately left.
— Nowadays there is a lot of talk and debate about the feeling of collective responsibility and guilt [из-за происходящего на Украине]. Do you ask yourself these questions?
– Yes, I really feel this guilt. And I feel that when I worked there on the channel, I somehow legitimized both the channel and Putin. Although, of course, it was a different time. But there was always a conflict in the fact that I worked there. Maybe I didn’t always see it, I didn’t always understand it. I’ve been having a hard time for many years now. There was a time when relations between Russia and America were still good, I got a job, everything was fine, and then everything changed dramatically. And I really felt how the association with this channel ruined my career. There was a time when no one wanted to hire me or talk to me. They never said this to my face, but then I heard it all. They called me a Russian spy. Of course, I regret taking these steps. We all need to collectively understand what the wrong steps were,” Alena Minkovskaya said in an interview with Khodorkovsky LIVE (Mikhail Khodorkovsky was included in the register of foreign agents by the Ministry of Justice).
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