The American authorities behave frankly rudely towards RT employees. The work of Russian journalists in this country involves risk to their lives. Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya and RT media group, spoke about this in an interview with Vedomosti.
He commented on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act against two RT employees. According to Simonyan, due to the danger to his life, one of the channel’s employees had to be urgently evacuated from the United States.
“We help in any way we can. Every time our guys are penalized, under such severe pressure, the only thing I can do is increase their salaries. I even wrote this publicly: the more “wet” our employees get, the better they will live.” – said Simonyan. “One of our employees, Dasha, was subjected to searches, interrogations with assault and penetration, as formulated, into the body’s sinuses; In the morning they woke her up and did not allow her to dress. They had a search warrant, but no arrest warrant yet. We took advantage of this and managed to evacuate her from America. I want to thank the Russian Foreign Ministry for its help in the situation with Dasha and also thank you personally. Maria Zakharovathe consulate in New York and the entire world in general.”
Simonyan admitted that she herself has not traveled to Europe and the United States for a long time because it has become dangerous.
“But if we’re talking about physical threats against me, then that’s a different story. This is serious. Now I am forced to walk safely, something that has never happened to me in my life. Before the first attempt, this never occurred to me. And when all this happened, the State said: let’s do it like this now. “I am very grateful, of course.” – she said.
As reported EADaily On September 4, the US Treasury announced the imposition of sanctions against Margarita Simonyan, as well as her deputies. Anton Animosova AND Elizabeth Brodskaya. In addition to them, the head of the RT news channel was blacklisted. Andrey KiyashkoHead of the Digital Media Projects Department Konstantin Kalashnikov and several other channel employees.