Inna Afinogenova develops, since his arrival in Spain, a intense political agenda parallel, combining his work in the Pablo Iglesias media with their participation in acts and debates against the shipment of arms to Ukraine and, therefore, against NATO. he has traveled repeatedly to the Basque Country, one of the few places in Spain where protests have taken place against the support of the Spanish Government to the kyiv executive, although he has also participated in less crowded events in Madrid or Zaragoza. In addition, it is part of the new Executive Board of the Madrid Journalists Unionone of the main labor organizations of information professionals in the capital of Spain.
At the moment, the opinion polls do not seem to favor those in favor of ceasing to support the Executive of Volodimir Zelenski in the face of the Russian invasion. According to the barometer of the Gabinet d’Estudis i Opinió Pública (GESOP), a 60% of Spanish citizens remains favorable to arming the Ukrainian statewhile only around 32% are against the measure, most of them linked to left-wing political forces, such as United Can, CKD and More Country, the ideological segment to which the media in which Afinogenova collaborates are directed. Among the right, only VOX shows significant percentages of voters opposed to the shipment of arms. Although it is still a phenomenon little studied by historians, one of the activities The one that Soviet diplomacy devoted the most resources to in its day during the Cold War was influencing the pacifist groups that opposed the installation of medium-range missiles in Western European countries. However, at present, due to the war and the successive expulsions of diplomatic personnel, Russian legations in the West can deploy much less activity in this sense.
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According to the summaries of the pacifist events that she attends, Afinogenova usually talks in these talks about her experience as a child in Dagestan, where, she says, she was able to feel the effects of the war that was taking place in the neighboring republic of Chechnya, and how This influenced him to position himself against war conflicts, whatever they may be. However, three months before the start of the invasion of Ukraine, In an interview with the gate CubaDebate, Inna expressed herself in unequivocally warmongering terms about this conflict, describing the Chechen rebels as “terrorists”, and aligning herself without fissures with the theses of Vladimir Putin, who, when he already held the post of prime minister, then characterized as a ” anti-terrorist operation” to the second war in the Caucasian republic. Between the two Chechen wars, according to NGO accounts, they lost their lives between 160,000 and 200,000 civilians out of a population of 1.5 million, that is, 10% of the inhabitants.
Afinogenova will be present at the meeting that will control the Union of Journalists of Madrid (SPM). According to El Mundo, “it is the union that has the most presence in the works councils of the main national media”. “The committees and all the personal delegates of Expansión, El Confidencial, La Razón, Público, the Europa Press group, Servimedia, the Madrid delegation of El Periodico de Catalunya and Ediciones Reunidas are all part of the SPM; it also has representatives on the committees from El Mundo, Cadena SER, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Ilunon Retail and Comercialización (from the ONCE group)”, the publication states.