“Be careful everyone, Tom Rogan and I are now designated extremists,” Gurdon commented ironically Monday on X, formerly Twitter.
Rogan wrote an opinion piece in 2018 in which he called on Kyiv to destroy the bridge connecting Russia to the annexed Crimean peninsula across the Kerch Strait.
“Bombing the bridge would thus be a very personal rebuke to Putin’s ambitions and his propaganda narrative,” he wrote at the time, years before Ukraine actually attacked the bridge.
Russia’s Investigative Committee subsequently launched a criminal case against him and the publication’s editor Gurdon for inciting terrorism.
Asked whether Carlson was in Russia to interview Putin, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said earlier Monday that Russia did not track the “movement of foreign journalists,” but instead welcomed them.
Rosfinmonitoring also labeled 29 other people as extremists or terrorists alongside Rogan and Gurdon.
Sergey Goryashko contributed reporting.
