from board of directors in RT to star of the Pablo Iglesias channel

Criticism seems to have escalated this Friday, when Afinogenova has been accused of fake news on behalf of the Russian Government when he worked in RTas published The newspaper. Apparently, the complaint comes from Max Golovanova former producer of the channel, who has sent a letter in his own handwriting in which he maintains that Afinogenova “violated journalistic ethicsordering the publication of deliberately false material and contributing to warmongering and the propaganda of violence in Russia.”

Likewise, the witness says that he saw how his partner, “accomplice and loyal to the regime”expressed “nationalist, homophobic and racist ideas…especially against Ukrainians”.

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Born in the Russian region from Dagestan Afinogenova has spoken fluent Spanish for 34 years, studied Journalism at State University, and has extensive knowledge of Latin America. Apparently this resume caught the attention of the now former Vice President of the Spanish Government, Pablo Iglesias, who hired her in June 2022 for his podcast, Base.

Now, Afinogenova has become the new star signing of the television channel of the former leader of Podemos (Network Channel), despite accusations that have recently come to light. And not only that: also despite the fact that the newspaper library is full of statements in which the reporter can be heard defending right and left some of the information -or misinformation– more publicized by the Kremlin.

false witnesses

“The best thing about accusing Russia in any scenario is that evidence is never needed. But that’s not all: when it comes to Russia you can also punish without proof”. In this way, the journalist began a recording in which she criticized that numerous countries had expelled Russian diplomats in retaliation for the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in 2018.

As an example of misinformation, The newspaper contains an investigation of Radio Free Europe and RISE Project that uncovered one of the most serious hoaxes attributed to RT in Spanish in 2018. By then Afinogenova was supposedly deputy director of the website and RT interviewed an alleged controller in the case of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane shot down in July 2014 who implied that the accident was Ukrainian responsibility. Apparently, the interviewee turned out to be a fake, but the channel did not rectify.

The defense of Churches

It is true that in May 2022, Afinogenova announced through her YouTube channel that she was leaving Russia and the channel RT because he did not agree with the war in Ukraine. “Basically I don’t agree with this war. So far it’s not hard to understand: who can agree to a war? A few, I am not among them. Well, that “, he clarified to his followers.

However, there are many who have attributed this decision to the fact that, shortly before, the European Commission described the Russian state media as Sputnik and RT as “part of Russia’s war machine” responsible to spread “Putin’s lies” and prohibited them throughout the community territory.

As a result of the new accusations, Iglesias has not hesitated to defend the presenter of your channel“Inna left a salary that she will never receive here, she left her country, she risked her freedom and that of her family who lives in Russia is at risk every day. And she did it for ethical reasons, for being against the war,” he said. in a Twitter message.

“And she joined us, knowing she was going to get hammered from both sides. My admiration for her and her journalistic work is matched only by to the contempt I feel towards that corporate mafia of palmeros of power that today return to attack it with garbage. Thank you partner,” she concluded.