Opposition journalist Sergei Markelov, in a conversation with Kholod, said that in March 2022, when he worked for RTVI, from the channel's report on the life of Ukrainian refugees in the United States, a shot from an anti-war picket with a Putin khuilo poster was removed.
As Markelov reported, footage from the action was replaced with filming American teenagers playing basketball. After that, he accused RTVI of “self-censorship and cowardice,” as a result, according to the journalist, he was suspended from work for “violating the rules of conduct in the office” and then fired.
Later, Markelov began working at Amazon. “About six months in local emigrant journalism was enough for me, and even better at Amazon.” deliver packages than to be in a bunch of sniveling, hypocritical pseudo-liberals, where the majority cling with their claws to their warm home,” he added.
Markelov previously collaborated with Sever.Realii, 7×7, Novaya newspaper» and other publications. He was one of the first five individuals whom the Ministry of Justice recognized as “foreign agents,” which happened in December 2020. The journalist tried to challenge this status, but the court refused. Markelov now lives in New York.