“C is citation,” wrote Simonyan in her Telegram channel, posting a selection of media texts below.
In particular, a paragraph from The New York Times is quoted: “In Russia, where state media described last year's protests against Lukashenka as a Western-staged conspiracy, the news of the arrest drew the approval of Putin's supporters.
Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Kremlin TV channel RT, wrote on Twitter that Lukashenka "performed beautifully."
And Vyacheslav Lysakov, a member of parliament from Putin's party, called Protasevich's arrest "a brilliant special operation."
And also The Guardian: “Four more people were removed from the plane in the capital of Belarus, which confirms the assumption of Roman Protasevich that agents of the local KGB cell were carrying him on board.
"Old Man performed beautifully," wrote Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Russian state television channel RT. "
The message includes examples of texts from The Times, The Atlantic, Atlantic Council *, NBC News, The Sun, The Week.
It is clarified that * Atlantic Council is an organization whose activities are recognized as undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation by the decision of the General Prosecutor's Office of 25.07.2019.
“The rest, unfortunately, are still allowed,” commented Margarita Simonyan.
On May 23, the editor-in-chief of RT published a post on the Telegram channel, in which she wrote that she never thought that she would envy Belarus in any way.
“But now I somehow envy. Old Man performed beautifully, ”Simonyan said.