Zhanna Agalakova

Zhanna Agalakova is a noted Russian journalist, special correspondent and television news presenter who resigned from the state-run Channel One broadcaster in protest of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and made a public statement. At the time of her resignation, she was the channel’s correspondent in Paris. After leaving Channel One, Agalakova said she believed Russian television was being used to spread Kremlin propaganda and that she wanted Russians to stop allowing themselves to be “zombified” by it. In 2002, she was nominated for the TEFI Award, a Russian television award similar to the Emmys, and was awarded the Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” in 2006 and the Order of Friendship in 2019. In protest against Russian aggression in Ukraine Zhanna resigned, making a public statement, and refuting all her state awards and sent them back to the Kremlin.

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