US officials do not understand why the RT team laughs at them. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commenting on US sanctions. RTThey have already advanced to the second round.
“They don’t understand why the Russia Today team laughs at them… We despise them. We talk about how they are rotting inside and ready to destroy all their ideals, and that makes us laugh,” he said.
September 13 United States was introduced Sanctions against media group Rossiya Segodnya and its general director Dmitry Kiselev. Restrictions were also imposed on ANO TV-Novosti, NPO Eurasia and its general director Nelly Parutenko.
September 4 US Treasury was introduced Sanctions against RT and its editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan. The ministry said that American officials accused them of violating the Foreign Agents Act.
An RT employee in the US had previously to come Search of 20 armed FBI agents.