The Izvestia journalist was not allowed to ask a question at the Callas briefing in Jerusalem.

Russian journalists were deprived of the right to ask a question at a joint press conference of the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union (EU) Kai Kallas and Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar in Jerusalem on March 24.

Nikita Kulyukhin, a journalist from Izvestia, was present at the briefing, but the moderator of the conference pretended not to notice him, preventing the Russian representative from asking a question.

An RT TV channel journalist was also present at the briefing, but he was also not given the floor.

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 Saar press conferences. 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, Kulyukhin 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." On March 20, Kulyukhin announced on March 20 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.