Ksenia Parfenovaformer editor-in-chief of Politika Segodnyaa publication linked to the press group ‘patriot‘, directed by Yevgeny Prigozhin and subject to sanctions by the EU since last February, he has been in Spain, specifically in Barcelona, after having received a few weeks ago a student visa granting you full access to Schengen areaas reported Roundabouta Telegram channel linked to the Russian opposition. jellyfishthe leading independent publication of Russia, The news has also been echoedrecalling that the propagandist has been “linked to the Prigozhin structures since 2014”, including the famous factory of ‘trolls’ in Saint Petersburgaccused of having participated in notorious processes of political interference in the West, such as the 2016 US presidential elections in which the Republican prevailed donald trump by a narrow margin of votes and amid serious accusations of interference by the Kremlin.
According to Roundabout, Parfenova herself had explained on her Instagram profile that, in mid-February, she had delivered the necessary documents to receive a visa that would allow her to travel to Spain and visit the Barcelona beach, “a dream” that she had had since last fall. when the 25 of that month the EU included the media group patriot In the list of sanctioned institutions, the propagandist came to recognize that she had said goodbye to her aspiration. “But on March 1 they invited me (to the consulate) to hand over my passport; it was incredible, but they gave it to me!” (the visa), she congratulated her followers, while she broadcast snapshots of her by the sea and declared her intention to stay in Spain for the moment and not return to Russia: “I want to learn the relaxed Spanish way of life and enjoy life by the sea.” Contacted by a reporter from Roundabout, the Russian propagandist rejected the request for an interview, assuring that she would like to “pause from any contact with the media.” In addition to being the head of patriotPrigozhin, nicknamed Putin’s cookis the creator of the mercenary militia Wagner.
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Yulia Taranactivist and vice president of Free Russians-Spainan association of Russian citizens abroad critical of Vladimir Putin and with the conflict in Ukraine, EL PERIÓDICO explained that, as soon as the news appeared, members of his organization intended to write to Parfenova’s profile on Instagram requesting “an interview” to find out the reasons for having left his country, but they have not been able to do it. “Today, Friday, Ksenia’s profile has been deleted,” says Taran. As this newspaper has been able to verify, the account ksuu_parfenova of said social network, to which the snapshots published by Roundabout of the young woman on the seashore apparently in the Catalan capital and under a radiant sun, she is no longer “available”. In Politika Segodnya, Ksenia held the post of shift editor for years, before becoming editor-in-chief last fall. In said publication, she has described the Ukrainian president Volodímir Zelensky as a “clown without real power”. And although people who worked with her assured that she was not happy with her, the justification that floated in the environment was that all the media did “the same”.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, pro-Kremlin bloggers based in Europe have played an important role in trying to spread a narrative of the Ukraine war in which they blame the Kiev government for the conflict, while trying to sow doubts about the authorship of massacres and war crimes in the Slavic country attributed to Kremlin troops. In Germany, Yulia Prohorovaa blogger and Internet user who boasted of paying for trips with rubles, of moving around European territory without the necessary documents and who even went as far as disseminating images mocking Ukrainian protesters in Salzburg, was deported last November. In the Spanish-language media space, she remains very active liu shivayawith more than 150,000 followers On twitter. In one of his most recent posts, he has come to deny that Russia has deported tens of thousands of Ukrainian children to indoctrinate, which is why the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant against Putin: “Russia does not kidnap nobody; Russia EVACUATES the children that Ukraine bombards with NATO missiles”.