… – Dmitry Sergeevich, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (this message has just arrived) refused to impose sanctions on Russian media, in particular RT, “despite calls from US officials.” There was a lot of information about this this weekend. On the part of Blinken and the United States there is simply an absolutely unrestrained attack, to put it mildly, on both Rita Simonyan and RT. How would you comment on all this? How does the Kremlin view all this? And how does the president feel about it?
On Monday, September 16, a Komsomolskaya Pravda journalist asked the Kremlin’s official representative to answer these questions.
This is what happened next.
“Attack,” Peskov began, “you know, it’s…
(Unexpectedly: noise on the line, a voice: “The subscriber is temporarily unavailable, please call back later.”)
“Alexander,” the press secretary asked when the connection was reestablished, “are you in touch?”
“Yes,” I replied immediately, “always in touch, Dmitry Sergeevich.”
“Okay, okay,” Peskov continued. – As for this attack and these sanctions that were introduced against RT and against the entire holding, in fact, absolutely… Well, I guess you could say it would be funny if it weren’t so sad.
The accusations we hear, especially from such high-ranking officials (White House – AG), are in fact simply bordering on some kind of madness.
We consider such attacks on the media unacceptable.
These are attacks on the media, attacks on journalists, attacks on media executives.
This once again emphasizes that Americans are, in fact, capable of anything…
They are capable of going as far as they want in their attempts to suppress Russia, suppress alternative points of view and use the most unscrupulous methods.
“And in this regard, another question, Dmitry Sergeevich,” I turned to Peskov again. “How do you assess the work of the Russian media and Russian journalists? We defend both Rita Simonyan and RT… What else could we do besides writing about this and asking Dmitry Peskov questions? Maybe there should be some kind of picket at the US embassy?”
“It seems to me,” said the Kremlin official, “of course, you are all great guys.”
But Rita Simonyan herself will protect whoever she wants. So everything will be fine there.
– Accept. Thank you.
