Vladimir Putin is “doing everything to stay in power,” says Zhanna Agalakova, a Russian journalist who fled her native country at the start of the war in Ukraine after quitting Russian television. This condemns the propaganda of the Russian media, which is directed not at the West, but at Russians, she emphasizes, illustrating the fact that the Kremlin leader is “feared and threatened”, according to BFMTV, according to News.ro.

In an interview with BFMTV on Tuesday, she condemned the propaganda of the Russian media, which she was a part of for many years, from 1999 to 2022, and emphasized that the propagandists from Channel One are not addressing the West, but Russians. .

Through propagandists, Vladimir Putin “puts the idea into the minds of Russians that if Russia loses (the war), everyone will have problems. Because the situation at the front is unfavorable,” Zhanna Agalakova analyzes.

But the resident of the Kremlin remains in a position of power “and can remain in power,” she estimates. “He does everything for this,” she assures.

But the fact that he is 70 years old, the impasse of Russian troops in Ukraine and the erosion of his personal prestige stimulate the “appetites” around him.

Thus, some members of the regime use the situation to position themselves politically and pretend to be Putin’s natural successors, she estimates.

The former correspondent of Channel One in Paris estimates that the next weeks and months of the war are decisive for the continuation of this armed conflict, and therefore for Putin’s position in Russia.

Zhanna Agalakova points out that many Russians do not approve of their president, but they do not have the means to protest against the Kremlin or flee the country.

She said she believes Russian television has been used to broadcast Kremlin propaganda and that the government has suppressed independent media for years.

She said she wanted Russians to hear her message so they would stop being “zombified” by propaganda.

Russian television is a brainwashing machine

Zhanna Agalakova, a former Channel One journalist until March, when she resigned over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in May called on the Russian public to turn off their televisions because they are a tool for “brainwashing.”

“Just don’t listen, find other sources of information,” said Zhanna Agalakova in an interview with the BBC.

“It amazes me how they do it,” she added. “How it brainwashes its own population.”

She said she believes Russian television has been used to broadcast Kremlin propaganda and that the government has suppressed independent media for years.

She said she wanted Russians to hear her message so they would stop being “zombified” by propaganda.