Pro-war blogger who reported on the “successes” in Mala Tokmachka turned out to be the highest-paid among his colleagues

Pro-war blogger who reported on the “successes” in Mala Tokmachka turned out to be the highest-paid among his colleagues

The highest-paid among pro-war bloggers and military correspondents turned out to be Boris Rozhin, who spent a whole year reporting on the “successes” of the Russian army in the area of Mala Tokmachka, Verstka has found.

The blogger receives about 2 million rubles from Channel One. That significantly exceeds the payments from other organizations, including ANO TV-Novosti (RT) and Rossiya Segodnya. From all sources, Rozhin receives about 2.6 million rubles a month. And his annual income amounts to 28.7 million rubles.

Semyon Pegov, the author of the WarGonzo Telegram channel, trails Rozhin only slightly. In the past couple of years he has appeared on the front line less and less often, which does not prevent him from earning well, about 24.6 million rubles a year (not including business income).

Judging by Verstka’s ranking data, the farther from the front line, the higher the incomes of those who fan the war: Z-bloggers earn two to three times more than equally popular military correspondents on Telegram. For example, Grigory Vdovin, a Rossiya 1 war correspondent working in hot spots, receives only about 435 thousand rubles a month.

This is the standard salary of military correspondents who spend a lot of time on the “front line,” filming reports for state TV channels. Another example is Channel One war correspondent Irina Kuksenkova, who receives only slightly more, about 526 thousand rubles a month.

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