Absent in published interview: Moscow mayor’s reported comments about how Russia’s ‘budgets are cracking’

Last last week, multiple news agencies reported on an interview with Sergey Sobyanin recorded by the state TV network Pervyi Kanal, where the Moscow mayor argued against cash stimulus handouts to the public during Russia’s coronavirus lockdown. Memorably, according to reports by the news agencies TASS and RIA Novosti, Sobyanin said, “The budgets are cracking — they won’t even be able to cover the healthcare system and so on.” When the interview finally aired and was published on YouTube and Pervyi Kanal’s website, however, this controversial remark was not included. The news outlet Open Russia was the first to notice this.

One source at the television network told Open Media that TASS and RIA Novosti may have mistakenly reported comments Sobyanin made at a media scrum after the interview.

(c)MEDUZA 2020

One comment

  1. No money for that but they have money for supplying Arms to so-called Rebel forces, money to illegally occupy other Countries, money for outlandish super weapons a 4 year old could tell them won’t work.

    I bet they won’t have money to bury the dead either.

    Still, so long as you and your pals have got nice big houses, nice big boats, as much Paedo porn as you want the ordinary Ivan in the street can go fuck themselves.

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