Petr Akopov is a Russian propagandist working for
RIA Novosti
RIA Novosti (russian: РИА Новости), sometimes referred to as RIAN () or RIA (russian: РИА, label=none) is a Russian state-owned domestic news agency. On 9 December 2013 by a decree of Vladimir Putin it was liquidated and its asse ...
, a Russian state-owned news agency. Akapov was the author of the pre-maturely published and the
retracted articletitled "The arrival/attack of Russia and the new world" ("Наступление России и нового мира"), which was written in advance anticipating the Russian victory in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. In the ominous article, Akapov announced that "Ukraine has returned to Russia" and condemned "Anglo-Saxons who rule the West" for "attempting to steal Russian land", and asserted that Russian President Vladimir Putin's launch of the invasion resolved the "Ukrainian question" to establish a "new world order" with "Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Before the news agency retracted the article, it was republished by another Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik and published by the Pakistani newspaper The Frontier Post in English.
Akopov is listed by the database
Putin’s List as a Russian propagandist, accused of "public support for the Russian military aggression against Ukraine.
Petr Akopov is included in the report "1500 warmongers" compiled by the
Free Russia Forum
The Free Russia Forum (FRF or FSR; russian: Форум свободной России; ФСР; ''Forum svobodnoy Rossii'', ''FSR'') is a conference of the Russian opposition, held twice a year in Vilnius ( Lithuania). The forum was founded in Ma ...
. The report contains the names of Russian propagandists and others who were publicly involved in supporting Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
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Russian propagandists
2022 in Ukraine
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)