Canonical ID: Q109380439
· Entity type: Person
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Person:notes | Ksenia Lebedzeva is one of the leading propagandists of the Lukashenka regime and is closely associated with regime media. She is Belarusian TV presenter at the state-owned “Belarus 1” channel. Since Jul 2021, she has hosted the information and analytical programme “This is different” at the state-owned “Belarus 1” TV channel. In her column and reports for Belarus 1 TV channel, she promotes Russian propaganda regarding Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, and Belarus state propaganda directed against opposition and neighbouring countries. Ksenia Lebedzeva is promoting the idea that Ukraine, together with NATO, has been launching information and psychological special operations against Belarus since 2020 and the Lukashenka narrative that opposition representatives are financed by Western countries. On 16 Jan 2021, Ksenia Lebedzeva was awarded with gratitude by President Lukashenka for “a significant contribution to the implementation of state information policy, high professionalism, objective and comprehensive coverage of the events of the socio-political and socio-cultural life of the country”. Therefore, Ksenia Lebedeva is benefiting from and supporting and the Lukashenka regime. | ch_seco_sanctions | ch-seco-65333 | ||||
Person:notes | Propagandist and employee of the state channel “Belarus 1” and in Belarus News Agency | ch_seco_sanctions | ch-seco-65333 |