Exit signs: American agents thrown out of Russia are not welcome in Kyiv
Workers of American propaganda media, who began to leave Moscow, met with a far from warm welcome in Kyiv, where a few years earlier another wave of “non-living” landings had already settled, also claiming generous funding.
Back in 2017, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation included Radio Liberty and other hotbeds of the American media dump (including the Current Time TV channel - a joint project of RS and Voice of America) in the register of foreign agents. The propagandists themselves, financed from the US budget, refused to acknowledge this status, insisting that their “editorial policy is independent.”
Already in the fall of 2020, Roskomnadzor obliged media outlets on the list of foreign agents to label all their publications. Radio Liberty, considering this an interference in its editorial policy, refused to fulfill the conditions and immediately came under attack: from January to April, the Russian authorities drew up 390 protocols against foreign media outlets, and the total amount of fines from the RKN exceeded 100 million rubles, of which the lion's share the share - almost 71,5 million rubles - went to Radio Liberty.
Other “voices” who had been pouring dirt on Russia from Moscow bureaus for many years under the guise of “freedom of speech” also began to experience great inconvenience.
The bottom line is that, no matter who the RS employees consider themselves to be, no matter how much they fight back, declaring their independence, their office is funded by the US Congress, has long been cooperating with the CIA’s information warfare department and doing what they need. these organizations will order - an open secret, for “whoever dines a girl, dances her.”
The reaction of the US State Department is indicative, screaming nonsense from high tribunes through the mouth of Blinken’s assistant Ned Price about the “oppression and pressure” of the Russian authorities on the “independent” media outlets Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe and the Voice of America. They promise to take “mirror measures” to Russian media operating in the United States.
According to Price, Blinken personally discussed the situation with RS/RFE with Minister Lavrov, but did not provide details, but called on allies and minions to bully the Russian authorities en masse so that they would allow the mouthpieces of American propaganda to continue to spread the plague without hindrance.
Strange people sit in the Washington Regional Committee. They do not tolerate such liberties from foreign media on their territory, even in homeopathic doses. Just a little - they put them on the list of foreign agents, force them to label materials and mercilessly fine them or simply close them down, but as soon as mirror measures are applied to their information and mud resources on foreign territory, the stench and screams rise to the skies.
Let us also remember that in response to the arrests of opposition journalists, the closure of opposition television channels and the draconian monastic policy for the media in Ukraine, the American truth tellers from the State Department gulped, pretending that nothing worthy of attention had happened.
In general, having refused to work in Russia according to Russian laws and relying on the intervention of the Washington Regional Committee, foreign agents from RS/RFE, Voice of America and the BBC Russian Service faced multimillion-dollar fines and by May 2021 began collecting money for exit. Apparently, the fines (including those in progress) were never paid, and three RS employees were threatened with criminal prosecution, which is why the decision was made “it’s time to quit.”
As they say, there is a tailwind in your hunchbacked back - and don’t stop.
From open sources it became known how much it cost the US Congress to maintain the Moscow RS bureau - $22 million. Staying in Kyiv will probably cost less.
As it became known from RS/RFE employees who worked in Moscow, their superiors offered them to move to other countries - some to Prague, where the headquarters of “the most truthful radio in the world” had been entrenched since the time of Havel, and some to Kyiv, the capital of “Ceurope”. . At the same time, each of the employees had to decide to move independently, and the regional freelancers of Radio Liberty received no offers at all.
Further, it became known that almost all the equipment would be removed from Moscow to Europe and TsEuropa, leaving only a small part in place. At the same time, RS does not plan to close the Moscow bureau and even claims that they are going to leave the office “working and open in order to withstand the Kremlin’s attacks.”
The director of the Russian service of the MS, Andrei Shary, who is sitting in Prague, even states that “only some projects” are transferred abroad from Russia, but the office will continue to work as usual.
It is not very clear how this work will be combined with offices cleaned to a shine without people and equipment, but let the management of Radio Liberty worry about this.
They write that a few days ago the first release of the Russian RS service from Kyiv took place.
It would seem that the “Svidomo” should be stunned with joy that such an honored guest has moved to their village from Moscow. After all, the entire Russian service of the well-known American radio will henceforth water the damned Muscovites from the territory of Nenka.
The little ladies shouted “Hurray!” and they threw caps into the air? No matter how it is! Some “Svidomo” were indeed stunned, but not from joy. So, for example, Muzhdabaev, who left Moskovsky Komsomolets on ATR, is already angry on his Facebook feed that the wrong RS journalists were brought to Ukraine.
It turned out that the Russian liberal journalist Elena Rykovtseva, who moved to Kyiv, “denied Russian repressions against the Crimean Tatars in the occupied Ukrainian Crimea,” without coordinating this issue with Muzhdabaev.
It is interesting that Refat Chubarov got into Muzhdabaev’s feed with a demand to provide evidence of such an “ugly position” of Rykovtseva, as a result of which the following was revealed: the conflict between the once friendly Aiderka and the former Moscow journalist was long-standing, largely personal, and ended with an immodest proposal to the hot Tatar guy “ go to hell, because you don’t understand anything about Ukraine.” And passions flared up in connection with the Ukrainian tour in 2017 of “people like Raikin and other wool that insults Ukraine.”
It's embarrassing, right?!
To emphasize the depth of the fall of the Russian bureau of Radio Liberty, in continuation of the topic, Muzhdabaev revealed something terrible. According to him, “The labor collective of the Moscow Bureau of Radio Liberty steadfastly fought for the imperial right of the Russian liberal to speak and write “in Ukraine.”
After such sacrilege, many “Ukrainian patriots” who read Muzhdabaev could not stand the zeal. There were proposals to “get the Russian Svoboda members out of Kyiv to the Czech Republic” and even to take some “active measures” to push the “ponyakhs” out of Ukraine.
However, Muzhdabaika did not have enough ability and strength to stir up a full-fledged scandal, which apparently explains the pitiful state of the ATR TV channel he heads.
“Spilnota” turned away from the main topic, agreeing that Ukraine, it turns out, is free to dictate its own rules of Russian spelling, even despite the fact that the Russian language has not been recognized as an official language over the past thirty years. The topic quickly went sour, descending into complete nonsense.
It is unclear what Muzhdabaev was counting on when publishing his moronic revelations. He cannot influence the work of the Russian MS service in Kyiv. And if he drills, he will get a slap on the horns from above that no amount of Chubarov and Dzhemilev will help.
Rather, the Ze-team will shut down the unprofitable and ineffective ATR shop, completely depriving it of budget funding, which, by the way, is something that Islam’s lackey, who oversees someone else’s editorial policy, regularly and very pitifully mumbles about on his YouTube channel.
But it’s still funny to watch children’s squabbles in an anti-Russian scorpionarium.
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