The founder of Podemos and former vice president of the Government Pablo Iglesias has come out this Thursday in defense of Inna Afinogenovahis main collaborator on the podcast La Base and on Network Channel, and has claimed to feel “contempt” for the “corporate mafia of palmeros del poder” whom she considers to be attacking her “with garbage”. After EL PERIÓDICO revealed the accusations by a former employee of Russian television RT that Afinogenova falsified news in favor of the Kremlin when she was deputy director of its website, the former leader of the purple party has defended that his star signing “risked his freedom and is playing every day that of his family who lives in Russia, for ethical reasons and for being against the war”.
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“Inna left a salary that she will never receive here, she left her country, she risked her freedom and that of her family who lives in Russia is at stake every day. And she did it for ethical reasonsfor being against the war. And he joined us, knowing he was going to get hammered from both sides. My admiration for her and for her journalistic work is only comparable to the contempt I feel towards that corporate mafia of power clappers that today they attack it again with garbage. Thank you partner,” Iglesias wrote on her Twitter account.
Inna left a salary that she will never receive here, she left her country, she risked her freedom and that of her family who lives in Russia is at stake every day. And she did it for ethical reasons, because she was against the war. And she joined us, knowing that she was going to get hammered from both sides. My… pic.twitter.com/OaAc31ieiD
— Pablo Iglesias 🔻(R) (@PabloIglesias) April 27, 2023
For her part, Afinogenova has also attacked those who criticize her, without giving names. “The same people who, with absolute cynicism, asked Russian society to protest against the invasion, are now crushing the few who have been willing to do so from their sofa, with a very high personal cost. The serious thing is that they dissuade any Russian who thinks of doing the same, “said the communicator on her Twitter account.
The same people who, with absolute cynicism, asked Russian society to protest against the invasion, now crush the few who have been willing to do so from their sofa, at a very high personal cost. The serious thing is that they deter any Russian who thinks of doing the same.
— Inna Afinogenova (@inafinogenova) April 27, 2023