The ex-governor of the Belgrade region stopped running a Telegram channel with 400,000 subscribers.
Vyacheslav Gladkov, appointed last year as Russia's ambassador to self-proclaimed Abkhazia, will no longer manage his Telegram channel Gladkov Amiti, which brought him national fame at the start of Russia's all-out war with Ukraine, and will start writing on a new channel. The new channel has less than a thousand subscribers, the old one has almost 400 thousand.
Kommersant, citing its sources, writes that the Kremlin was not satisfied that Gladkov, even after his resignation from the post of governor, continues to run his popular channel, which is mainly subscribed to by the audience of Belgorod. In the presidential administration, the publication's interlocutor stated that Gladkov "cannot understand his new role."
At the beginning of the war, attention to the Telegram channel of the governor of Belgrade region attracted his management style: Gladkov openly reported on the problems of the front area related to the fighting in Ukraine, shelling and damage. During the escalation of the campaign against Telegram, he actually spoke out against blocking the messenger.