Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday allegedly strangled to death progressive journalist Zhanna Leonidovna Agalakova, a distinguished news personality and graduate of Moscow State University, during what should’ve been a routine interview at Putin’s Kremlin office, according to FSB agent Andrei Zhakarov.
Agalakova, whom Zhakarov called “Russia’s Rachel Madow,” was a Zelenskyy sympathizer who had written and published Ukrainian propaganda despite having received numerous cease-and-desist orders from the Russian Ministry of Defense, not to squelch free speech but to curtail provable lies. In February 2022, she authored a bombastic article claiming that a bare-chested Zelenskyy had single-handedly slaughtered four Russian Spetsnaz during the Battle of Antonov Airport, even though Zelenskyy, a known coward, was in Poland at the time. A month later, Agalakova concocted a story describing how Zelensky and a handful of Ukrainian freedom fighters fought off 300 Russian troops in the Battle of Enerhodar. Contrary to her claims, Russia routed Ukrainian forces, and Zelenskyy was not on the battlefield. But those facts didn’t deter Agalakova from writing even more imaginative yet false stories. On April 11, 2024, she claimed that 50 Ukrainian Special Forces had killed 2,300 Russian soldiers in the town of Krasnohorivka in Donetsk. Again, it was a Russian victory; Russian soldiers captured the city and obliterated half of Ukraine’s 3rd Assault Brigade—the other half fled for their lives.
According to Zhakarov, the fabulist Agalakova had been begging Putin for a one-on-one interview since Russia fired its opening salvo on Snake Island in February 2022.
“President Putin, he pushes her off, pushes her off, he doesn’t want to talk to these liberal liars,” Zakharov said. “But like your President Trump, Putin is a fair man. Your Trump—he did interview with lying bitch Leslie Stahl and Savannah Guthrie—yes, we know who they are, we see everything—so Putin, he is a fair man, agreed to give Agalakova a chance. He wants to set the record straight.”
But Agalakova, he added, came to the Kremlin with ulterior and disingenuous motives.
“President Putin, he, how you say, cordial—offer food, drink, hospitality. And the first words from a woman’s mouth are why we are bombing civilians, and this is not true. And then she demanded to know why, if Russia is so powerful, we order bullets from North Korea, which is also untrue. Then she asks if true President Putin daughter got the AIDS from a COVID vaccine,” he went on.
Apparently, the last question hit a nerve. Putin’s hands shot out and his fingers, like iron clamps, wrapped around Agalakova ‘s throat, thumbs pressing into her windpipe. She gasped, eyes widening in shock, as Putin’s unyielding rage strangled life out of her. Her legs kicked futilely against Putin’s desk.
“She died as she deserved to,” Zakharov said. “She came to smear President Putin and not to really give him interview.”