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2024-04-03 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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They wanted to scare you, but they made you laugh. Why is the SBU threatening Margarita Simonyan?
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Gevorg Mirzayan
[REGNUM] The Security Service of Ukraine decided to respond in an original way to accusations of organizing terrorist attacks in Russia. The department brought charges against RT
| …formerly known as Russia Today, but some years ago they decided not to trumpet the connection quite so loudly… |
editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan.
“Based on the collected evidence, SBU investigators informed Simonyan of a new suspicion under four articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine,” the department’s official account says.
The charges include “genocide,” “an attack on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine,” “war propaganda,” and “denial of armed aggression against Russia with the glorification of its participants.”
The statement is, to put it mildly, strange. The last three articles can be summed up by any Russian patriotic blogger who supports Russia in eliminating the Nazi regime in Kyiv.
And under the first - none of the adequate Russians, since Russia has not committed and is not going to commit any forms of genocide against Russians, who, due to a complex of reasons, have been reprogrammed into political Ukrainians. And which can be reprogrammed to basic settings after they return to the Russian educational and information space.
Simonyan herself puts forward two versions of the SBU initiative.
First: the Ukrainian department wants to “close her opportunity to travel around the world, believing that I will suffer from this.”
“They believe that everyone who supports Putin does not leave Lazurka. There's bad news here. The only Lazurka where I would be upset not to be able to travel is my native Krasnodar region,” explained the chief editor of RT.
This version can be developed further. The same warrant from the so-called International Criminal Court in The Hague for the arrest of President Putin was issued not only in order to deprive the Russian president of the opportunity to visit countries that are signatories to the Rome Statute (that is, recognizing the jurisdiction of the court), but also to make the communication of political leaders with him as toxic as possible. Essentially, get a tool to put pressure on the countries of the Global South.
The accusations against Simonyan may have the same motive. In Ukraine they see that RT, despite all the bans in Western countries, is a successful tool for conveying the Russian position. Moreover, viewers not only from the countries of the Global South, but also from the collective West.
Accordingly, the Kiev regime wants to contribute to the efforts of Western states to limit RT broadcasting. This is why he accuses Margarita Simonyan of “genocide” and “war propaganda.”
The second version of Margarita is that the Kiev regime is preparing the ground for an assassination attempt on her.
“They are making up an excuse for themselves in advance if they do kill me. What they have tried to do several times already. It seems somehow unsympathetic to kill a journalist, and a mother of many children at that. And if you hang on it mythical calls for the murder of children, then it seems prettier,” said the head of RT.
And there is no need to develop anything here - the SBU itself transparently hinted at the preparation of an assassination attempt.
“Since the criminal is hiding from justice on the territory of the Russian Federation, comprehensive measures are being taken to bring him to justice,” the SBU said in a statement.
Apparently, Ukrainian terrorists (and the head of the SBU Vasily Malyuk has already admitted to terrorist activities, for which Moscow demanded his arrest) are going to kill several birds with one stone. Not only to exclude one of the main media figures in Russia from the information space, but also to show that they can reach anyone. Well, or at least intimidate them. Make Russians afraid, look around, paranoid.
Another version of the Ukrainian accusation was voiced by the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
“Since the Kiev regime could not combine April 1 with the presidential elections in Ukraine, Bankova decided to mark an important date on the calendar with idiotic news - they shouldn’t waste April Fool’s Day. Moreover, Zelensky has been preparing for the holiday for a whole year,” says Zakharova.
We should not forget about the desire of the Ukrainian authorities for PR. The Kyiv regime in general and the SBU in particular needed to show that Russia’s demand to arrest and/or extradite Vasily Malyuk and others involved in terrorist activities did not intimidate the latter.
That Malyuk, and the head of the main intelligence department, Kirill Budanov (an individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists in the Russian Federation), and other Ukrainian terrorists intend to continue their activities against Russia. Moreover, new goals are announced.
Accordingly, Russia’s response to all these statements and threats from the SBU can be one - to continue to act within the framework of the chosen strategy. First, a formal demand for the extradition of Malyuk and other terrorists, and then, in the language of the SBU, “the adoption of comprehensive measures to bring him to justice.”
And not only to achieve justice, but also to publicly demonstrate to all current and potential Ukrainian terrorists the consequences of their actions.
But this solution is only a medium-term one. The problem of Ukrainian terrorism can and should be finally resolved only through the formula voiced by President Putin: through denazification and demilitarization of the Ukrainian state.
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