[18] Krasovsky later began work at another pro-Kremlin[16] channel, Kontr TV, started by himself and Sergey Minaev in December 2012.

)[19] His statement was not made available online or was deleted soon afterwards,[17][20] and on 28 January Krasovsky resigned from the channel and denounced the working environment there.

"[23] In May, following the murder of Vlad Tornovy reportedly because he was thought to be gay,[24] Krasovsky published an article in The Guardian denouncing homophobia in Russia.

And it is terrifying to imagine what could happen tomorrow.Krasovsky spoke out in August 2013 against the boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia that some gay rights activists proposed.

[26] In July 2016, Krasovsky and the head of the outpatient department of the Moscow Regional AIDS Center Elena Orlova-Morozova established The Foundation in support of people who live with HIV — AIDS.Center.

In October 2022, Krasovsky, who is openly gay, supported the approval of a law banning "LGBT propaganda" in Russia.

[32] On 10 October 2022, in the aftermath of missile strikes across Ukraine which caused 14 deaths, Krasovsky shared a video of him dancing on a balcony in a cap with the letter Z,[33] stating: "To say that I am happy is to say nothing at all.

[35] In late October 2022, during a broadcast, Krasovsky said that Ukrainian children who had in the past criticised the Soviet Union as occupiers of Ukraine should have been thrown into river to make them drown there or been burned alive in their cottages.

[36][37][38] The comments sparked outrage both outside and inside Russia, and Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba called on countries to ban RT for what he described as incitement of genocide.

I hope you'll forgive me.On the evening of the same day, Krasovsky recorded a four-minute video apology stating that "every baby's tear is my pain, my worst nightmare".