{"id":518933,"date":"2026-02-19T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=518933"},"modified":"2026-02-19T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:20:12","slug":"fake-novaya-gazeta-europe-journalist-tried-to-recruit-nasta-ragatko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/fake-novaya-gazeta-europe-journalist-tried-to-recruit-nasta-ragatko","title":{"rendered":"Fake \u201cNovaya Gazeta Europe\u201d Journalist Tried to Recruit Nasta Ragatko"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Another provocation was attempted by anonymous actors using the name of Russian journalist <strong>Irina Garina<\/strong>. This time, a cooperation offer was sent to former editor-in-chief of KYKY.org <strong>Nasta Ragatko<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Several days ago, Nasta Ragatko received a message from a Facebook user named Irina Garina. The account was created in May 2025. Ragatko shared the text of the message with the Reform.news editorial team.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAnastasia, hello. I represent the outlet \u2018Novaya Gazeta Europe\u2019. We are, in a sense, also an opposition media outlet, but we work on countering Russian propaganda. We are now launching a full-fledged Belarusian focus. We would like to offer you work analysing the political situation and problematic aspects within the \u2018regime\u2019. We have studied your social media, you are a very talented opinion leader and writer)) We are interested in your candidacy. We could agree on payment for your work during an interview. I am ready to propose February 20, 2026. I look forward to your reply. Sincerel<\/i><em>y, Irina Garina,<\/em><i>\u201d<\/i> the message said.<\/p>\n<p>The Reform.news editorial team contacted Novaya Gazeta Europe to verify the message.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThank you for your vigilance and for writing to us \u2014 this is once again a fake Irina Garina! Our Irina Garina does not work on Belarus, and we are not opening a Belarusian editorial office; we already have a special correspondent for Belarus on staff,\u201d<\/i> they said.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first provocation involving a fake Irina Garina. In June 2025, the press service of NAU received an interview request for <b>Pavel Latushka<\/b>, allegedly from a journalist of Novaya Gazeta Europe named Irina Garina. The request proposed participation in the filming of a feature-length documentary about Europe\u2019s resistance to aggression by Russia and Belarus. At that time, a fake Facebook account named Irina Garina was used, which had been created back in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another provocation was attempted by anonymous actors using the name of Russian journalist Irina Garina. This time, a cooperation offer was sent to former editor-in-chief of KYKY.org Nasta Ragatko. Several days ago, Nasta Ragatko received a message from a Facebook user named Irina Garina. The account was created in May 2025. Ragatko shared the text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":518932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6996e3e0c6da8.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Fake \u201cNovaya Gazeta Europe\u201d Journalist Tried to Recruit Nasta Ragatko"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}