Member of the HRC Merkacheva said that Svanidze, after an illness, got in touch in Moscow

Journalist and former member of the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia (HRC) Nikolai Svanidze returned to Moscow after receiving treatment in Israel. The hospitalization of Mr. Svanidze in Moscow became known in February, according to a source from the 360 ​​TV channel, he discovered pneumonia and pulmonary edema. After the journalist felt better, his relatives decided to transfer him to a hospital in Israel, TASS informed. He is now in Moscow, said HRC member Eva Merkacheva.

“Our dear Nikolai Svanidze, for whose health almost half the country was worried, got in touch. He writes that in Moscow, he is cheerful and is not going to throw away his skates! she wrote in her Telegram channel.

Mr. Svanidze began his journalistic career in the 1990s. In November 2022, President Vladimir Putin expelled him from the HRC, and in December Nikolai Svanidze fired from the post of director of the Institute of Mass Media of the Russian State University for the Humanities.

Maria Fedotova