Journalist Kulyukhin sued the Israeli media over harassment

On March 20, Izvestia journalist Nikita Kulyukhin announced that he had sued the Israeli magazine Seventh Eye because of the harassment unleashed against him. The online publication has been publishing defamatory articles about the reporter for more than a year.

According to the journalist, Seventh Eye does not like that he is telling the truth about Russia and refuses to promote Russophobia in his publications.

"I sent them a lawsuit for defamation in an Israeli court for $100,000, because I was already tired of their constant harassment and hunting me," Kulyukhin said.

The journalist also said that he had received a message from representatives of the Seventh Eye. They told Kulyukhin that they had "revealed an exclusive" that he was working for Izvestia. Representatives of the magazine added that they realized this after a statement by Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, who mentioned the journalist's reports for the Russian media.

"In response, I told them that I was a freelance journalist working with media outlets from all over the world - the United States, Britain, China, Israel, India, Russia, and so on. And you could see on my social media that I also do reports for Izvestia. I don't understand what the news is," the reporter shared.

Adversity of the word: why did the Israeli Foreign Ministry start harassing the Izvestia journalist

The authorities of the Jewish state obstruct Nikita Kulyukhin's work after an inconvenient question to a local politician

On March 6, it was reported that the Israeli Foreign Ministry had banned Kulyukhin from attending the weekly press conferences of Foreign Minister Gideon Saar. This happened after a correspondent asked on March 4 why the Israeli side did not condemn the glorification in Ukraine of accomplices of nationalists during the Holocaust, including their leader Stepan Bandera, responsible for the deaths of many Jews. Saar stated that he had not known about this before the question was asked, as well as about the tendency to rename streets of Ukrainian cities in their honor.

After that, on March 18, it became known that the Izvestia journalist was not allowed to attend a briefing for the foreign press, despite the statement by the official representative of the Israeli cabinet, David Menser, that in his country "no one forbids journalists to ask questions." The 9th Russian-language channel admits that the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs not to allow Kulyukhin at the press conference could be due to external pressure.