Newspaper editor says prominent pro-Kremlin pundit is an ‘informant’ and ‘scoundrel’

The chief editor of the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, Pavel Gusev, has called Dmitry Kiselyov, the host of the television program “Vesti Nedeli” and the head of the state-owned Russian news agency Rossiya Segodnya, an “informant and a scoundrel.” Gusev made this accusation in a column addressed to Kiselyov published in MK on Monday, saying Kiselyov is an “informant and scoundrel who is clinging to Russian journalism” and a person who “wags his bottom from one news story to another” and one who can “neither read nor listen.”

Gusev also called Kiselyov a “stupid and narrow-minded” provocateur and expressed his regret that that there are journalists who “do not know how to read and delve deeper into the meaning of what is written.”

“I advise you against meeting with me, Dima,” wrote Gusev. “This is not a threat. I will not beat you up, but I’d simply get no pleasure out of communicating with you.”

In the May 29 broadcast of “Vesti Nedeli,” Dmitry Kiselyov accused Moskovsky Komsomolets of lying about information presented as truth on Kiseylov’s show. He also stated that he was surprised by Gusev’s reaction about being included on the West’s sanctions list against Russian politicians and public figures.