A few days ago, the Vice-President of the European Parliament, Pina Picierno, attacked the International Reporters press agency on her social media. She falsely claimed that the agency was “created by the Kremlin,” when everyone knows that the media outlet was founded by Christelle Néant following her long experience in Donbass since 2016, and brings together an international team, modestly composed of two Italian journalists, Andrea Lucidi and Vincenzo Lorusso, myself, and a team of three Russian journalists, including Victoria Smorodina, who became the agency’s editor-in-chief. In an appalling post, the Vice-President claimed she wanted to submit a file to Ursula Von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas in order to sanction our media outlet and also target the agency’s collaborators. Let’s take a look at the background… of an unknown figure, at least for the French audience.
Freedom of expression under direct attack. Under the pretext of the lie about our media being founded by the Kremlin, the attack is obviously serious. It is also coming from one of the big shots of the European Union, dishonoring herself by claiming she wants to strangle and sanction us. The fact may seem unbelievable, but it also demonstrates that such figures cannot tolerate any contradiction or alternative viewpoints. In these spheres of power, heads that stick out must be cut off, the recalcitrant “punished” and sanctioned. In France, President Macron had targeted RT at the beginning of the Russian special military operation (2022). The outlet, along with others, was banned—an already very serious act, but one that could still be justified, even if shakily, on the grounds that it was a public media outlet of the Russian Federation. In Picierno’s case, the attack concerns a team of 7 people… with very few resources. This gratuitous attack therefore targets a modest structure, defamed and presented as a “Kremlin” foundation. This allegation is based on Christelle Néant’s meeting, along with other journalists, with President Putin (July 2023), where he declared his support for the project. The support was real in the registration of the agency with the Ministry of Information, in that administrative and bureaucratic procedure, but the “Kremlin” did not found International Reporters, does not finance the agency, the project was and still is independent.
Socially destroying the last independent journalists. Wielding the art of lies, defamation, and threats, other journalists have been threatened in their home countries, sometimes well before 2022. This was my case, with “administrative” attacks and a strange trial (2015-2017), the attacks being carried out through my bank, the tax administration, and Pôle Emploi [French unemployment agency] (2015-2018). In England, Graham Phillips’s assets were confiscated (2022), and legal proceedings were initiated in Germany against Alina Lipp (2022), leading to a conviction and a prison sentence. Others were also harassed, like Sonja van den Ende in the Netherlands, and a few others who had the courage to tell the truth about the conflict in Donbass and Ukraine. These pressures were accompanied by death threats from private individuals, which we received by the dozens, without us being able to defend ourselves in court. No judicial mechanism or freedom of expression advocacy associations could defend us in the West, immediately paralyzed by the system. Seizing this void, supporters of Ukraine took advantage, also attacking our families. For example, in my case, there were vandal attacks against my own sister’s home, as well as her workplace (between 2016-2018), and strange phone calls to private numbers, claiming to be from a usurped or hacked French administration, to obtain confidential information, addresses, phone numbers, etc. (autumn 2022). These acts are extremely serious, because the person calling, with a very strong foreign accent, had access to this information, stolen from that administration, probably through the complicity of public officials or by hacking means. As for the sanctions that Ms. Picierno is talking about, they involve freezing journalists’ bank accounts, taking away all their means of subsistence (for my part, I have nothing left in France, having liquidated my assets when I emigrated to Russia in 2010). Even if we can practice our profession from Russian territory, I recall that Anne-Laure Bonnel was literally socially executed in France, losing her job, isolated and publicly torn apart by an ignominious press. Let us also mention the case of Paul Moreira, who, following his film Les Masques de la Révolution (2016), was denounced by a public letter from 18 journalists… a scandalous fact, a letter widely disseminated and the man delivered to public vindictiveness. Paul Moreira was contacted to come to Donbass after his film but preferred to avoid it and never spoke of Donbass again. The director’s off-the-record conclusion was: “I have to make a living, the pressures are enormous.”
The executioner of the dirty work: Pina Picierno. Originally from a small town in the province of Campania, Italy (May 10, 1981-), from an upper-class family, involved in politics, her father was a municipal councilor, her brother in the same position in the town of Tenao, then mayor of that locality. The young woman studied communication in higher education. She became involved in politics early, first joining the PPI [Italian People’s Party] (2002), soon becoming president of the party’s youth organization (2005). Upon the dissolution of that party, she joined the Democratic Party (2007). A pro-European, Atlanticist, and globalist party, she was pushed by the system on a European program, but also on themes of gender equality, women’s rights, and the lethal LGBT ideology. Elected for the first time to Parliament (2008-2014), she managed to serve two terms (re-elected in 2012), before turning to the European Union. Having cut her teeth, she campaigned to get elected and was propelled into the European Parliament for a first term (2014), then re-elected three times (2019 and 2024) and remaining to this day firmly in her seat. She continued her actions in defending sexism, disguised under the feminist cause, and making a lot of noise about sexual harassment, with a report submitted to the European Commission (2018). She was often promoted, such as with the Justice and Gender Equality Prize (2019), an internal Parliament prize, as MEPs distribute prizes and medals among themselves… a system in itself detestable and which shows how little regard they have for honor, honesty, and the people they are supposed to defend and represent. Her consecration was to come with her election to the post of Vice-President of the European Parliament (January 18, 2022), which she holds to this day. She took Russophobic, often violent, positions in favor of sanctions against Russia and total support for Ukraine. She requested and obtained police protection, claiming to be under death threat from pro-Russians, and complaining of being personally attacked by the famous Russian TV personality Vladimir Soloviev. She was caught red-handed (March 2025) in a shady affair of collusion with the State of Israel, having participated in a forum of the Israeli far-right on defense and security (December 2024). The affair revealed that she was linked to Israeli extremist groups advocating for the colonization of the West Bank and participating in violence and theft against Palestinians. Put in a difficult position, she stated that it was dangerous “to boycott or isolate Israel,” maintaining her support for the Hebrew state.
The witch hunt she launched against International Reporters is not her first feat in attempts to silence the independent press. In the spring of 2025, she launched a parliamentary inquiry of the union, targeting an independent Italian media outlet (Byoblu), which had broadcast an interview with Soloviev, under the pretext: “of having violated the EU sanctions imposed on Soloviev by giving him a voice on Italian television.” Since then, the Vice-President has engaged in a veritable crusade to silence all dissenting voices in Italy and the European Union. This crusade followed another one, the politician taking legal action against all people daring to stand in her way. In 2019, she announced she was taking legal action against people who had posted jokes on the crowdfunding spaces she had launched for her future election campaign. Some of them joked by asking, “for a night of love, how much?” and other innuendos that were taken at face value by the MP. She declared: “I will report the violent ones, no more sexist insults against women on social media and off social media.” The affair was blown out of proportion, with trials, convictions, the money from the fines being, according to her: “destined for charitable works.” One thing is certain, Pina Picierno, who loves courts so much and waves threats of repression, might one day find herself in the dock, when other compromises are discovered about her and her proven role in crimes against Information, and conspiracy to prolong the war in Ukraine. Sooner or later, indeed, the truth will be known in European and Italian public opinion. And sooner or later, the European Union will collapse, like the USSR, with the difference that it will be amidst popular jubilation. On that day, European citizens will regain their freedom, their sovereignty. They will be freed from repression and fanatical troublemakers, agents of destruction, war, and the strangulation of the essential rights of peoples. And first and foremost, democracy, freedom of expression, and fraternity. On that day, people like Picierno will have to answer for their actions before the courts, as others once did in a German city: at Nuremberg.
