Pushkov allowed Time magazine's USAID funding for a publication about Zelensky

In 2022, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) paid $4 million to Time magazine for declaring Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky the person of the year and placing him on the cover. This was announced on March 30 by the head of the Federation Council Commission on information policy Alexei Pushkov.

"Moreover, Time, of course, is far from the only media outlet that has received huge amounts of money for this kind of publication," he wrote on his Telegram channel.

Pushkov added that this information is based on USAID expenditure items.

The senator stressed that "this is how information is made in the West."

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