The Russian state media has been ordered to cancel any mentions of Roman Abramovich from their coverage of peace negotiations, it was claimed today.
The move to write the oligarch out of TV and news agency reports comes after evidence that he had been “poisoned” with a chemical war agent. The revelation on blanking Abramovich - for years seen as having links to Vladimir Putin, 69, and sanctioned by Britain and the EU over the war, triggering the attempted sale of Chelsea FC - come from Russia ’s leading woman opposition politician Ksenia Sobchak, also a prominent TV and web journalist .
The compliant state media in Russia are often issued orders from the Kremlin about what they can and cannot report. “The pro-Kremlin media were forbidden to mention the role of businessman Roman Abramovich in the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine,” said Sobchak's Telegram channel.
