Belarusian Komsomolskaya Pravda Is Headed by a Russian Propagandist, Awarded for Crimea

• 2.11.2020, 13:01

Alexander Kots is included in the list of the Ukrainian Myrotvorets.

Acting editor-in-chief of the Belarusian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda has become a journalist of the Moscow editorial office Alexander Kots, Radio Svaboda reports.

Today he was introduced to the team, Kots himself told reporters.

At the same time, Article 31 of the "Law on Mass Media" states that only a citizen of Belarus can be the chief editor of a Belarusian publication.

Kots took part in covering conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine, and other countries, and recently visited Karabakh.

He was included in the list of the Ukrainian Myrotvorets for one-sided informational support of the annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas.

Journalists Mikita Navecherkau, Evika Otto, Volha Ivashenka, and deputy editor-in-chief Ina Kachatkova recently left Komsomolskaya Pravda.

In August, the editor-in-chief was already changed in the newspaper. Then Marina Bunakova, a former editor of the KP in Khabarovsk, came to run the newspaper.