The hosts of the first program were Georgy Bovt, the newspaper's columnist, and Ekaterina Vinokurova, a special correspondent for the Ural Internet publication Znak.com.

In it, the author of Gazeta.Ru complained about the inability to get through to opposition political scientists, which is why the article presented only the point of view of pro-government figures.

[27][28][29] In February 2015, the Los Angeles Times journalist Sergey Loiko, who covered the War in Donbass, published a correspondence with the deputy editor-in-chief of Gazeta.Ru, Pyotr Vlasov [ru].

[32] In one of the messages, the official addressed the top manager of Rambler, Alexei Goreslavsky [ru], and through him, the editor-in-chief of Gazeta.Ru Svetlana Babaeva with demands to urgently respond to criticism of the Olympic Games in Russia from Viktor Shenderovich.

The next day Gazeta.Ru released an editorial beginning with the words "It's amazing how much the Internet prevents ordinary Russians from recklessly enjoying the Olympic Games”.

[33] In April 2016, Bloomberg News columnist Leonid Bershidsky called Gazeta.Ru a "pro-Putin media" acting in the interests of the Russian authorities.

Next day, a German-based newspaper OstWest published an article revealing the spread of false information by a number of Russian media outlets, including Gazeta.

Sara Pagung, expert at the German Council on Foreign Relations, commenting on the appearance of an article in Gazeta.Ru, notes that "It is not uncommon to create fake news pages that you can then refer to.