Shafran Anna

Shafran Anna Citizenship

Russia

Shafran Anna Professional field/official position

Propagandist

Shafran Anna biography

SHAFRAN (nee PALYUKH) Anna Borisovna began her career in Tver as a DJ on Nashe Radio. In 2003, Palyukh-Shafran moved to Moscow and started working as a DJ on the Silver Rain radio station. In 2004, she became the host of the Orient Express program. She lived for some time in Egypt, and that is where she took herself the pseudonym Shafran (Saffron). In 2008, she began working with the well-known propagandist Vladimir Solovyov on the morning shows Nightingale Trel, Once Upon a Rain (with Leonid Volodarsky) and Breakfast for Champions (with Alex Dubas). In 2009, she graduated from the Faculty of History of RUDN University.

Since September 2010, she has been working at state radio station Vesti FM as the co-host of Vladimir Solovyov’s Full Contact morning show, and also runs her program Principle of Action. She regularly appears in Solovyov’s propaganda talk show Kto Protiv on the state TV channel Rossiya-1. Since September 2019, she has been anchoring a newscast The Main with Anna Shafran on the Spas TV channel, owned by the Moscow Patriarchate.

According to unconfirmed reports, in 2008 she gave birth to a son from Vladimir Solovyov.

Shafran Anna crimes

Pro-Kremlin propaganda, incitement to anti-Ukrainian hysteria, public libel against activists of the democratic opposition.

A faithful student of one of the most infamous pro-Kremlin propagandists, Vladimir Solovyov, Anna Palyukh-Shafran naturally fits into the new wave of informational allies of the Putin regime. Shafran’s style is to speak loudly over the opponent in emotional manipulation, to make an opponent refute an obviously false statement. The former DJ from Tver is now an expert in international politics, and specifically, an expert on Ukraine.

Anna Shafran ended up in the Ukrainian Myrotvorets database for a series of disrespectful comments about Ukraine, the Ukrainian language and culture, for regularly visiting the illegally annexed Crimea, and for spreading false information about the “Nazi rampant in Ukraine.” Even though she regularly publicly provokes contempt and hatred towards Europe and basic European values, Shafran enjoys traveling in the EU and the USA.

Anna Shafran is a female counterpart of Vladimir Solovyov, and in all her broadcasts, she consistently expresses a pro-Kremlin perspective. Like Solovyov, she frequently criticizes the participants and leaders of the democratic opposition aggressively, indiscriminately accusing them of Russophobia and cooperation with foreign intelligence. She called the Free Russia Forum a coven, and its participants a group of sheep and goats. She did not conceal her satisfaction with the criminal prosecution of participants in peaceful protests against the ban on independent candidates from running in the elections to the Moscow City Duma: “Fools-hamsters of a beauty blogger began to get prison sentences. The mission of street opposition/Navalnysts is completed. Young morons go to jail for them.”

In 2018, Anna Shafran presented her book, “State of Honor. The monarchy is the future of Russia.” There, she concluded that the best state system for modern Russia “was and remains the monarchy.” Palyukh-Shafran caused a scandal during the non-fiction book fair in Moscow when she was given time for the special presentation of this book. She saw this as censorship. It is noteworthy that on the same day she posted on Twitter calling for independent environmental NGOs to be labeled as so-called “foreign agents,” which means preventing them from working freely in Russia.

The autocratic monarchy not accountable to the people is the only hope for Shafran, which guarantees her prosperous and safe future. This is not surprising since otherwise, propagandists like Solovyov and Saffron will have to bear responsibility for years of misinformation, diligent service to the criminal regime, inciting hatred for their dissenting fellow citizens and neighboring nations in the interests of a corrupt ruling group.