Tag: Russian TV

Russian TV to Trump: ‘Do what we say’ if you want our help in elections

The following article by Caroline Orr was posted on the ShareBlue.com website August 11, 2018:

Russian officials have clearly figured out how to use Trump’s vulnerabilities against him.

Alexander Zemlianichenko, File, AP

Russian President Vladimir Putin is not happy about the new sanctions imposed by the U.S. this week, and his cronies are using one of the Kremlin’s most popular state-run media programs to get the message across to Trump.

Investigative reporter and Russian media analyst Julia Davis reported Friday that Russian state TV devoted an entire panel on a news program this week to a discussion about how Russia should retaliate against the U.S. for the new sanctions, which were imposed in response to the Kremlin’s involvement in the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter earlier this year in Salisbury, U.K.

The assassination attempt on Skripal was carried out using the nerve gas Novichok, which violated the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act, and as a result, triggered the mandatory enforcement of new sanctions.

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Russian state TV touts Trump on Crimea: ‘Crimea is ours! Trump is ours!’

The following article by Caroline Orr was posted on the ShareBlue.com website June 16, 2018:

Russian state media is celebrating after Trump told G7 leaders that Crimea belongs to Russia because everyone who lives there speaks Russian.

Credit: J. Scott Applewhite, AP

Russian state TV is celebrating after seeing the recent report that Trump told G7 leaders that Crimea belongs to Russia because the people there speak Russian.

Trump’s statement, which parrots the Kremlin’s talking points on Crimea, was widely interpreted in Russia as an official declaration by the U.S. that Russia was justified when they illegally invaded Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine. Continue reading “Russian state TV touts Trump on Crimea: ‘Crimea is ours! Trump is ours!’”

Russian TV Editor Says Kremlin Ordered Clinton Takedown

The following article by Graham Lanktree of Newsweek was posted on the National Memo website November 25, 2017:

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton arrives at Burke Lakefront airport in Cleveland, Ohio U.S., October 21, 2016. Credit:  REUTERS/Carlos Barria

A former television news editor for Russian state media outlet Rossiya says that the Kremlin used to call and give instructions about how to cover Hillary Clinton during the 2016 U.S. election.

“Sometimes it was a phone call. Sometimes it was a conversation,” Dimitri Skorobutov told The New Yorker Thursday. “If Donald Trump has a successful press conference, we broadcast it for sure. And if something goes wrong with Clinton, we underline it.”

“Me and my colleagues, we were given a clear instruction: to show Donald Trump in a positive way, and his opponent, Hillary Clinton, in a negative way,” Skorobutov said at a recent speech at a journalism conference in Maastricht in the Netherlands. Continue reading “Russian TV Editor Says Kremlin Ordered Clinton Takedown”