TV Rain CEO Natalia Sindeeva asks fired host Alexey Korostelev to re-join network
Source: Meduza
Natalia Sindeeva, the head executive of the exiled Russian TV Rain network, asked the recently fired host Alexey Korostelev to re-join the media company.
Korostelev had been fired on December 2, after his remark about helping the Russian soldiers at the front.
Sindeeva apologized to Korostelev and said that it was “disgraceful” to fire him for “a mistake.”
The executive also invited the hosts Margarita Lyutova and Vladimir Romensky, who both resigned in solidarity with Korostelev, to “come back to Rain”:
It was a mistake, not an evil ploy. A very bad mistake. The Ukrainians may never forgive us for it, but it was a mistake. People do make mistakes.
How Korostelev’s remark turned into a media scandal
- ‘Equipment and basic amenities’ TV Rain fires host for saying the network has ‘helped’ many Russian soldiers, Latvian authorities to investigate his remarks
- Three TV Rain employees to leave network over firing of host Alexey Korostelev
- 'We made a lot of stupid mistakes' TV Rain CEO Natalia Sindeeva on the news that Latvia is stripping the network's broadcast license
- Deja vu all over again TV Rain editor-in-chief slams Latvian regulators’ decision to revoke the network’s license as a farcical repeat of Kremlin censorship
- Meduza’s statement regarding the revocation of TV Rain’s Latvian broadcasting license
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