INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Mikhailov, 52, who was honored with the presidential Order of Friendship in 2021, had resigned of his own volition, Chernyshenko announced,
spokesman for Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, to whom TASS is subordinate, ignored a request for comment.Sergei Mikhailov, former Director
Being on the sanctions list shook him up a lot
But the Kremlin did not let him go
So he continued," the acquaintance said.The fact that Mikhailov was planning to stay at TASS was confirmed to The Moscow Times by several
agency employees who corresponded with him shortly before his resignation."We discussed with him our work tasks for late 2023," one of the
panicking and publicly showing weakness.In the early hours of June 24, TASS was one of the first to publish photos from Rostov-on-Don,
clearly proving that Wagner fighters had taken the city center and blockaded the Southern Military District headquarters, a command center
Some kind of insanity has happened to them
They have forgotten that their main task is not to report the news
and private media under tight control, was unhappy with both the Prigozhin mutiny and what it saw as an insufficient level of pro-Kremlin
This was confirmed by a Kremlin source and an insider at a major Russian media holding.Alexei Gromov, the first deputy head of the
basic rules of journalism
We weren't as tabloidy as RIA Novosti [state news agency that is part of a media holding run by anchor Dmitry Kiselyov and RT head Margarita
Mikhailov was one of the functionaries, businessmen and officials who left the Russian capital, two longtime acquaintances of Mikhailov told
Manturov, billionaire Vladimir Potanin and the head of Inter RAO and the son of another childhood friend and billionaire Boris Kovalchuk,
the investigative outlet IStories reported, citing data from the Flightradar tracker.Independent Russian media reported that Putin had also
left Moscow, but Peskov denied this, saying that "the president is working in the Kremlin."A few days after the failed mutiny, State Duma
deputies demanded that the security services investigate and make public a list of the officials and state functionaries who had left Russia
during the crisis and punish them for their disreputable conduct.Since then, no civilian official has been publicly punished for how they
Mikhailov appears to be the first."[Mikhailov] had left Moscow those days
But he received a call telling him to come back urgently
Then he told everyone that his departure from Moscow was a pre-planned trip
He said it was just a coincidence," the acquaintance told TASS.But this alleged departure, combined with TASS's coverage, cost Mikhailov his
It has been corrected with his real age.
