Konstantin Semin

Affiliated media: VGTRK, Programme author

Incident date: April 2, 2019

Attack type:

• Dismissal / involuntary dismissal / forced quitting of the profession / expulsion from the educational institution

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Samara Oblast, Samara

Additional information:

In Samara, the journalist Konstantin Semin, an author of the “Agitatsia and Propaganda” programme was fired from VGTRK and the programme closed after Semin read out a letter from an engineer in the Progress Rocket Space Centre on YouTube. Semin said that after his dismissal he was invited to a long conversation with the CEO of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, who told the journalist about a dark PR campaign to discredit his attempts to improve the industry.