Anton Vyacheslavovich Krasovsky (18 July 1975-) was a Russian political journalist, gay rights activist, and director of broadcasting for Russia Today (RT) from 2020.
Biography[]
Anton Vyacheslavovich Krasovsky was born in Podolsk, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in 1975, and he became a pro-Kremlin journalist. Krasovsky participated in Mikhail Prokhorov's 2011 presidential campaign, was censored after revealing his homosexuality in 2013 in response to President Vladimir Putin's ban on "homosexual propaganda", became a Russia Today talk show host in 2021, and became an outspoken supporter of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. In 2022, he claimed that Ukraine should not exist as a country, that Russia would do anything to make it disappear, and that he would destroy the Ukrainian constitution on the Khreshchatyk (Kyiv's main street) or at the Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Kyiv's main square).