The Kremlin’s chief propagandist slams pension-reform opponents as ‘life failures’

Source: Meduza

Television pundit Dmitry Kiselyov, widely considered one of the Kremlin’s chief “propagandists,” addressed Russia’s looming pension reforms in his Sunday news review show on July 8. On the program, Kiselyov lashed out at opponents of raising the retirement age, accusing the “43 percent of men who don’t live to 65” of “making mistakes in life” akin to “mistakes on the battlefield.”

Dmitry Kiselyov’s July 8, 2018, “Vesti Nedeli” broadcast. (In Russian.)

Rossiya 24

According to Kiselyov, who has previously compared calls for a pension-reform referendum to “mob rule” and Ukraine’s Euromaidan revolution, low life expectancy among Russian men is due to bad life decisions. “Drunkenness is a mistake. Bad driving is a mistake. Recklessness is a mistake,” Kiselyov said, arguing that Russian men who reach the age of 60 live on average for another 16 years.

In June, the Russian government submitted draft legislation to the State Duma, establishing a plan to raise the country’s retirement age from 60 to 65 for men by 2028, and from 55 to 63 for women by 2034.

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