Russian Influence in Europe: Who Is Xenia Fedorova, Accused of Being the "Kremlin Voice" in Bolloré Media?
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Former director of the Russian propaganda channel RT (Russia Today), closed in 2023 following the European sanctions adopted after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Xenia Fedorova is now at the heart of a new controversy in France. A regular columnist in several Bolloré media, she is accused by some political and media figures of relaying the Kremlin's propaganda.
The Kremlin's main television station is banned throughout the EU, but the former head of the French division is not. Xenia Fedorova, former president of RT France, is a familiar facet in the country's conservative news broadcasts, where her comments to Russia, Ukraine, NATO and European security fuel alarm among parliamentarians and disinformation experts before the presidential elections in France in 2027, writes Politico.
"It's not a journalist, it's not a commentator, it's a Russian agent," said the head of Place Publique in the show The Grand Jury for RTL, Public Senate, Le Figaro, M6. Xenia Fedorova is accused even within the French government of carrying out the propaganda of the Kremlin.
One article, which made the government react, describes CNews and Europe 1 as "the most influential propagandist in the Kremlin in France."
Forbidden in Europe since 2022, the state channel Russia Today France now sees its former leader freely broadcast the Kremlin narrative on all the media of the billionaire.
More than three years after the closure of RT France, its former leader is now a regular and inescapable media player belonging to the ultra-conservative billionaire. The Quai d'Orsay accuses her in particular of taking up "word for word the Russian propaganda narratives".
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