They climbed into the sinuses of the body: Simonyan told how they mocked RT employees in the USA

The US authorities are behaving towards RT employees in a frankly boorish way. The work of Russian journalists in this country is associated with a risk to life. Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and RT, told about this in an interview with Vedomosti.

She commented on the allegations of conspiracy to launder money and violation of the law on registration of foreign agents against two RT employees. According to Simonyan, because of the danger to the life of one of the employees of the TV channel had to be urgently evacuated from America.

"We are helping with everything we can. Every time our guys are sanctioned, under such tough pressure, all I can do is raise their salaries. I even wrote it publicly: The more they "wet" our employees, the better they will live," Simonyan said. "One of our employees, Dasha, was searched, interrogated with assault and with climbing, as it was formulated, into the sinuses of the body — in the morning she was picked up and not allowed to get dressed. They had a search warrant, but no arrest warrant yet. We took advantage of this and managed to evacuate her from America. I would like to thank the Russian Foreign Ministry for its help in the situation with Dasha, and also to say a huge thank you personally to Maria Zakharova, the consulate in New York and the whole world in general."

Simonyan admitted that she herself has not been traveling to Europe and the USA for a long time, because it has become dangerous.

"But if we talk about physical threats against me, that's another story. This is serious. Now I have to go with security, which has never happened in my life. Before the first attempt, it never occurred to me at all. And when all this happened, the state said: let's do it like this now. I am very grateful, of course," she said.

As EADaily reported, on September 4, the US Treasury Department announced the imposition of sanctions against Margarita Simonyan, as well as her deputies Anton Anisimov and Elizabeth Brodskaya. In addition to them, the head of RT's information broadcasting, Andrei Kiyashko, the head of the digital media projects department, Konstantin Kalashnikov, and a number of other employees of the channel were blacklisted.