RT Chief Outraged at ‘Shocking’ Proposal to Seize Channel’s US Assets
Sputnik – 27.10.2015
RT television channel Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said Tuesday that she was outraged at the proposal by a former US assistant secretary of state that the United States must freeze RT assets.
David Kramer, a former US assistant secretary of state for democracy and human rights, said in an op-ed published last week by The Washington Post that RT channel assets in the country must be seized in compliance with two European court rulings against Russia stipulating shareholder debt repayment in the now defunct Yukos oil firm.
“We are outraged at this call of a former US official,” Simonyan said. She blamed the US hype over RT broadcasts on a long-time smear campaign against the channel to “gag RT, the only opposition voice in a choir of mainstream media.”
“The US Broadcasting Board of Governors has already compared us to Islamic State and called to label us a ‘foreign agent.’ But remarks of the former US assistant secretary of state in The Washington Post are nevertheless shocking,” Simonyan said.
The RT chief pointed out there was no legal ground to back Kramer’s assertion. The former US government appointee claimed that an RT asset seizure was an option to pay an estimated $52 billion to Yukos shareholders after observing that the Russian Embassy and consulate property in the US were protected by diplomatic immunity.
Last year, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled that the Russian government owed tens of billions of dollars to Yukos shareholders. Yukos was declared bankrupt in 2006 and absorbed into the state-owned Rosneft company.
The Russian Justice Ministry refused to follow EU court rulings, saying this would put the ministry in breach of the Russian constitution. The ministry appealed the ruling, arguing that it was neither fair nor impartial.
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Full-out exposure of the neocon-Israeli-Jewish crime network connections to 9-11 is in order. Arthur Topham is now on trial for his alleged “hate speech”. Mass media in the U.S. operate as foreign agents on behalf of Israel, so to name RT as “foreign agent” is to give a pass to the Jews … what’s new? U.S. police are trained in Israel in the tactics being used against Palestinians.
Expose 9-11. That is the terrorists’ Achilles heel.
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Thank about this for a moment… The US criminal elite and their co-conspirators in Isreal are the same people, although many have been promoted by replacing those who have died or less useful.
Obama had to be fell informed in advance, he had Rahm Emanual, President Clinton’s campaign manger and fund raiser. Could 9/11 been originally planned, and implamented without getting all the wrong people in the wrong places to pull it off.
Rahm Emanual is therefore, been given a free-ride, as well as Obama.
I am not trying to divert your attention to the WTC, the dancing Isrealis, the arrested Israelis who were released by Attorney General Michael Chertoff, Netanyahu, and Silverstein are still here and were prime conspirators, and there must be several CIA officers involved in 9/11 who have kept silent, as has undoubtely dozens of ranking US military officers.
“The The Games Begin!” with Kevin Barrett with the gravel and the people of the world the audiance and jury. The only forgivnness is by full congression, naming names, giving testimony under oath with the whole world watching. Purgery would be aiding and abetting war criminals, and that is a crime against humanity, the only way to prevent WW III, before it is too late.
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Good report; good, on-point comments. Go, RT!
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