'Will make everyone shudder': Russia warns US for imposing sanctions on state-funded RT News
Maria Zakharova
As the United States announced sanctions against Russian state-funded media RT for trying to influence the Americanpeople ahead of presidentialelections in November, the Russian foreign affairs ministry said that they would take retaliatory measures, warning that they would make "everyone shudder".
Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday (Sep 5) stated that Washington's actions against state broadcaster RT's editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan and her deputy Elizaveta Brodskaia were "an information campaign" ahead of the US presidential elections.
Russia's ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said, "When the authorities resort to such primitive ways of influencing their voters, this is the decline of liberal democracies."
"There will be a response," she added.
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Earlier on Wednesday, two other RT employees Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva were indicted by the US for trying to influence the 2024 elections.
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The two employees were accused of channelling $10 million to a Tennessee-based company that used social media influence to "create and distribute content to US audiences with hidden Russian government messaging”.
Zakharova earlier told state news agency Ria Novosti, "It is an obvious operation, an information campaign…that was long prepared and that is needed ahead of the last stage of the electoral cycle", adding that the response will be harsh and will make "everyone shudder".
“We warn that attempts to expel Russian journalists from the territory of the United States, create unacceptable conditions for their work or any other forms of obstruction of their activities, including with the use of visa tools, will become the basis for taking symmetrical and/or asymmetric retaliatory measures against the American media,” she said.
US announces cash reward for providing information
The US State Department announced that it was taking action against several employees of Russian state-owned media agencies and designated them as "foreign missions".
Watch |US Justice Department sanctions top editors of Russia's RT news
The USalso announced a cash reward for those providing information to the Americangovernment about foreign election interference.
It stressed that they were adding media company Rossiya Segodnya and its subsidiaries RIA Novosti, RT, TV-Novosti, Ruptly, and Sputnik to its list of foreign missions.
(With inputs from agencies)