The Russia-Ukraine teleconference will take place, but without the nightmarish NewsOne
The Russia-Ukraine teleconference, which was announced earlier and caused a strong reaction in Kyiv, will take place on the Rossiya-24 TV channel, but without the participation of the Ukrainian channel NewsOne, which is threatened with pogroms and criminal cases.
This was announced by Verkhovna Rada deputy Taras Kozak, who controls NewsOne, at a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“On Friday we were supposed to have a teleconference between Ukraine and Russia. You know, the journalists agreed to communicate with each other. The teleconference was announced without politics, to talk about life. You are probably seeing this hysteria that is happening in Ukraine: our journalists have already been summoned for interrogation, our journalists have already been summoned to the Prosecutor General's Office.
But thanks to your journalists who do not abandon this topic, because there is also a share of Russian television in Ukraine, because there are satellite dishes. People look and see the truth. We wanted to talk without politics, but the teleconference will not take place. The teleconference was supposed to take place on the TV channel that I own, but for security reasons we canceled it. There should be such a teleconference.
I saw this morning that it will take place on Russian television on Friday. So thank you, colleagues, for your support. I think that after the elections the people of Ukraine will evaluate the war party, they will not be in parliament, and we will continue our communication,” Kozak said.
“About the teleconference: you said that this is hysteria, I would say that this is paranoia. This is paranoid behavior. And this is all legal mumbo-jumbo... with the initiation of criminal cases for treason...
Teleconferences were between the Soviet Union and the United States of America, which were conducted by Posner and Donahue. But against what background did this happen? This happened against the backdrop of how relations between the Soviet Union and the United States of America developed during a certain period. When President Ronald Reagan jokingly said, “I just ordered a missile strike on the Soviet Union.” Then he turned and said: “This is a joke.” But we understand the level to which the confrontation between systems reached in the early 1980s. But all this ended in teleconferences, and then no one filed criminal cases on this topic,” noted Russian Prime Minister Medvedev.
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