Moscow university faculty openly apologize to students for deleting footage of the Kremlin's spokesman making some wild comments

Twenty-one faculty members past and present in the media department at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics publicly apologized to the university’s students for deleting footage of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s March 29 appearance at the school.

The instructors acknowledged that the department violated the journalistic ethics it teaches when Sergey Korzun interviewed Peskov for his educational program without agreeing in advance if the conversation would be on the record. After Peskov made several incendiary remarks about women and sexual harassment, he told the school that his comments were off the record, and the unreleased footage of his appearance was promptly deleted.

Sergey Korzun tells a different story

Korzun says he and Peskov agreed in advance that the March 29 conversation would be off the record. Afterwards, when confronted about the scandal, Korzun amused a classroom of students by reciting a line of criminal jargon, explaining that “a man keeps his word.”