Krasovsky Anton

• Russian journalist, director of the Russian-language broadcasting of TV channel RT, financed by the Russian government.
• Author and host of the Antonyms program. As a political strategist, he headed the campaign Mikhail Prokhorov in the 2012 presidential elections and the campaign Ksenia Sobchak in the 2018 presidential elections.
• Chairman of the Board of the Charitable Foundation AIDS. Centre.

Krasovsky Anton biography

Anton Vyacheslavovich Krasovsky was born on July 18, 1975 in Podolsk. He has been a journalist since 1995. Together with the writer Sergei Minaev, as well as the former producer of the Comedy Club Artak Gasparyan, he was the creator of the Kontr TV channel. On December 11, 2012, the Kommersant newspaper reported that according to the tax services, the 100% founder of the TV channel is the Institute for Socio-Economic and Political Research (ISEPI), created on the initiative of the Presidential Administration of Russia, and headed by the former deputy head Department of the President’s Internal Policy Dmitry Badovsky. Soon, however, Krasovsky was fired from the TV channel.

• Then he said in an interview with the Snob webzine that the Kontr TV channel was a “Kremlin project whose purpose is propaganda.” He worked in the headquarters of Mikhail Prokhorov in the 2012 presidential elections and in the headquarters of Ksenia Sobchak in the 2018 presidential elections (without an official contract), from which he was dismissed on March 1, 2018.
• After the announcement of the results of the presidential elections, he commented on their outcome as follows: “Love Putin or leave and spit on Russia” (Echo of Moscow, Anton Krasovsky’s blog, March 19, 2018). Since 2019, he has been cooperating with the propaganda TV channel RT.
• In October 2020, he was appointed director of broadcasting in Russian at RT.