Tass director Sergei Mikhailov was fired over his coverage of the Wagner uprising, which the Kremlin did not like. This is what the Moscow Times writes, citing various sources, and comes back to the “resignation” of the head of the Russian state press agency, which took place on July 5 but remained relatively unnoticed. On July 5, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko announced that Mikhailov had resigned and that Andrei Kondrashov, a former spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 2018 campaign, would take his place. No one explained the reasons for Mikhailov’s resignation, which he sat next to Deputy Prime Minister with a “worried” expression on his face.
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Various TASS, government and political sources now confirm that the real motive was the cover-up of the Wagner uprising. “In the early hours of June 24, Tass was among the first to publish photos from Rostov-on-Don proving that Wagner fighters had captured the city center and blocked the Southern Military District headquarters… They had forgotten.” “Theirs The main task is not to report news, but to create the ideologically correct narrative for the Kremlin,” a government official told The Moscow Times. And Tsar Vladimir Putin’s ax fell on Mikhailov’s chair.
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