Svetlana Babayeva, head of the regional division of the Rossiya Segodnya agency in Simferopol, died while practicing military sports shooting. It is reported by RIA Novosti, which is part of the media holding.
The agency writes that Babayeva died «due to an accident» at one of the training grounds in the Crimea. The general director of Rossiya Segodnya, Dmitry Kiselev, commenting on the news of the death of his colleague, said that Babayeva «was torn» by the ribbon «, wanting to support our heroes.» According to Kiselyov, a «stray bullet» killed her.
The exact place of death of Babayeva is not reported. Svyat Pavlov, an employee of RIA Novosti, told Mediazone about the training and practical courses for training military journalists «Bastion», which are held at the training ground in Sevastopol. Their participants are beaten, poured with sheep's blood and forced to crawl over stones with a bag on their heads under machine gun fire.
Svetlana Babayeva from 2004 to 2006 headed the representative office of RIA Novosti in the UK. From 2008 to 2012, she was the editor-in-chief of the RIA Novosti bureau in the United States. After that, Babaeva worked for three years as the editor-in-chief of Gazeta.ru.
Since December 2016, Babaeva has collaborated with the Rossiya Segodnya agency. In August 2019, she became the head of the regional division of the media holding in Simferopol.
“The main narrative was that a journalist is nobody «. Horror and depression at the courses of the Ministry of Defense for war reporters