Former RT France editor-in-chief joins French right-wing channel CNews. There, she repeats Russian p

Ksenia Fedorova, the former editor-in-chief of RT France, has joined the French right-wing conservative channel CNews, according to Politico and the Russian Service of RFI . RT France ceased broadcasting in January 2023. Fedorova said at the time that the closure resulted from the channel’s accounts being frozen.

A press release on the RT France website said the channel could not continue operating after European sanctions were imposed on its “shareholder and parent company” — the Russian non-profit organization TV-Novosti, which encompasses RT. After the channel shut down, Fedorova remained in France and published a memoir there titled Bannie. Liberté d’expression sous condition (“Exiled. Freedom of Speech, Conditionally”). As early as 2023, she was in talks with the media group of billionaire Vincent Bolloré, according to Le Monde . That group encompasses the CNews television channel, the Europe 1 radio station, the newspaper Journal du Dimanche, and the publishing house Fayard — the same publisher that later released her book. Fedorova now appears regularly on the group’s news programs to comment on international affairs and hosts her own weekly segment on CNews. She has also released a mini-series titled Svet pravoslaviya “The Light of Orthodoxy” about Orthodox churches in Europe. “Fedorova consistently repeats the talking points of Russian state media. The main one is that ‘Russia wants peace,’ while the continuation of the war is the fault of Ukraine, Europe, the United States, and NATO,” RFI reported. Fedorova also brought former RT France employees with her to CNews, Politico reported. One of them hosts a program on which she regularly appears.

Key points

• A press release on the RT France website said the channel could not continue operating after European sanctions were imposed on its “shareholder and parent company” — the Russian non-profit organiz…
• After the channel shut down, Fedorova remained in France and published a memoir there titled Bannie.
• Liberté d’expression sous condition (“Exiled.
• Freedom of Speech, Conditionally”).
• As early as 2023, she was in talks with the media group of billionaire Vincent Bolloré, according to Le Monde .