He suggested that Kelly wanted to be fired from NBC because she was interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russians loved her.

“And here it is, the sentence: dear Megin, dear! You spit on your superiors and spit in general, come to us in Russia, to the hero-city of Moscow. Why are there to Moscow! Right here, come to this studio, we will jointly conduct the program “Time” ..., RIA Novosti quotes Kleimenov as saying.

Earlier, the media reported that NBC fired Kelly for racist comments.

It also became known that Kelly, after being fired from NBC, demanded $ 50 million from the channel.