Russia: New journalist resigns from state channel due to war in Ukraine
The former Channel One presenter who worked as the station's envoy in Paris said that Russian television was being used to broadcast Kremlin propaganda.
Zana Agalakova, who until the resignation this month was a journalist on the Russian state-controlled network Channel One, said today that she resigned in protest of Russia's war in Ukraine.
Agalakova, a former Channel One presenter who worked as a station envoy in Paris when she resigned , told a news conference in the French capital: "When I spoke to my superiors, I said I could no longer do this job."
She said she believed Russian television was being used to spread Kremlin propaganda and that authorities had been suppressing independent media for years, according to the APE-MPE.
