“Direct Line” with Beglov turned out to be a recording. On the channel “St. Petersburg” they are looking for an employee who “confused the buttons”, and this was revealed

The channel “St. Petersburg” is looking for an employee who turned on the wrong disc during the “airing” of the St. Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov, thereby exposing the forgery. Speaking of which in shape “Roundabout”.

On December 10, a “direct line” with Beglov was organized in Smolny, which was supposed to communicate with citizens in real time and answer their questions. During the “air” questions to Alexander Beglov were asked by his press secretary Inna Karpushina.

However, it turned out that Beglov’s speech was recorded in advance – viewers discovered this at the moment when, at the 50th minute of the “hot line”, the governor suddenly said that he “worked for two hours.” This part of the program was supposed to be the final one, but it went on the air earlier: one of the channel’s employees “confused the buttons” and launched it at the wrong time, says the interlocutor from the Rotunda in Smolny.

Subsequently, the broadcast was cut off and after about 50 minutes Beglov had to go on a real live broadcast, the Rotunda’s source says. According to him, the incident is being investigated on the TV channel and in Smolny, but a final conclusion has not yet been reached.

The first part of the “straight line” lasted 51 minutes, according to – 19 minutes.

As versions of the cause of the accident, they called “the poor condition of the employee who supplied the air” and “the most powerful cyber attack” that officials had to think through.

In addition, the registration of Governor Alexander Beglov’s “hotline” was on the network even before it started. The video was posted on the St. Petersburg SDG page at 11:25 Moscow time, which is half an hour before the broadcast.

On December 1, media close to businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin announced that the broadcast would take place on December 2. This message appeared even before the “hot line” was announced in Smolny. Prigogine’s comment published press service of his company “Concord”:

“Tomorrow, December 2, there will be a “direct line” with the Governor of St. Petersburg AD Beglov, where he will have to answer citizens’ questions. Unfortunately, there’s nowhere to submit these questions, and where they’ll appear is unclear. Smolny does not provide any information. By the way, before the “hot line” of the governor of the Leningrad Region A.Yu. Drozdenko’s announcement and rules were published in 2 weeks. Therefore, I took the liberty and responsibility to collect the most urgent questions for the governor and send them to the page on the VKontakte network, the Smolny press service, the governor’s reception, and also post them on the VKontakte page and in the Telegram channel of the Concord press services company,” the statement read.

Prigozhin added that he had collected 80 questions from citizens for the “hotline”, but he didn’t really count on the answers: if Beglov sees these questions, there will be no feedback. “The governor of St. Petersburg is deaf and blind and he needs treatment for his hearing and eyesight,” wrote Prigogine.

November 22, “Putin’s chef” oligarch Prigozhin in an interview with Nevsky News She said who invested up to 2 billion rubles in the election campaign of Governor Beglov and hoped to receive a project for 186 billion rubles from St. as needed. He promised to return the full amount, however, according to Prigozhin, this never happened.

At the end of October, Prigogine asked The Prosecutor General’s Office to check Beglov for the creation of an organized criminal group. According to Prigozhin, his possible goals were “looting the state budget” and “enriching corrupt officials.” It causes protracted and the public conflict that Prigogine takes revenge on the governor of St. Petersburg, said Insider Petersburg politicians.