“Protasevich is not a journalist, but a state criminal” - Simonyan
The West has long turned social networks into a battering ram against states, and for a sovereign country not to have its own Internet platform is the same as not having its own army.
The head of RT, Margarita Simonyan, stated this at a forum in St. Petersburg, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Twitter was demolishing the state; before our eyes, one Telegram channel was almost demolished by the state in Belarus. Now one of the instigators (Roman Protasevich - ed.) of this demolition of the unfortunate Belarusian state has ended up in a Belarusian prison. I welcomed this decision and this somersault with the landing of the plane publicly. And the entire world press until today, today again they sent me notes from France, writes that the cynical head of Russian propaganda welcomed the repressions against the journalist with ferocious ridicule,” said Simonyan.
“They write about it funny, naturally distorting everything, because people who use social networks and the media as a tool for destroying the state, by the way, as tools for unleashing a civil war, they are not journalists at all, they are state criminals rocking their state. We have had many such people in the history of our country; all this has nothing to do with journalism,” she added.
“Western social networks did not immediately, it must be said, but have long since become an instrument of geopolitical struggle. And for us not to have our own, and not to protect ourselves from strangers, is the same as not having our own army, not having our own Ministry of Defense, and not having our own state border, and not having border guards,” concluded Margarita Simonyan.
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