Human rights activist Alexander Ionov: “Sometimes a journalist is a political project”

At the MK press center there was a live broadcast with human rights activist and MK journalist Eva Merkacheva, whose guest was the President of the Anti-Globalist Movement of Russia Alexander Ionov.

“When we studied the cases of foreign organizations such as The Bell, Meduza, and the Sores Open Society Foundation, we showed that a journalist is not always a journalist, sometimes it is a political project, and often highly paid,” says Alexander Ionov. — All these media outlets have gained a decent audience during their work, and this is normal, there will be a clash of the masses within the electoral process in any case, and it is expressed, among other things, in the media space, because the media is the fourth estate. “Moskovsky Komsomolets is also the fourth estate.”

“When we did the investigation, we relied not only on facts, but, first of all, on the financial model of the organizations,” continues Alexander. — We have an interesting chain: in organizations that were located in Latvia, and there is an analogue of our Spark, you can buy access and look at the reports of these organizations. We started watching the legal entities The Insider, Meduza and The Bell, and got an interesting texture. Afterwards, we invited these organizations to meet at any site, I would take the documents, and they would try to explain everything, but, as you can see, no one did this. For some reason they thought that I was receiving money from the Kremlin for this.”