The Duran reported over the weekend on Joe Biden’s warning to Russia that the US would begin a retaliation against Russia over Hillary Clinton’s fictional “Russian Hacker” election narrative.

It appears that moments ago we got the first major shot fired by America towards Russia…delivered by its always loyal vassal state of the United Kingdom.

Russia’s RT television network and media group has seen its bank accounts blocked by the UK, according to a tweet posted moments ago by editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan.

Simonyan said in a Twitter post, “Our accounts in the UK have been closed. All Accounts. ‘The decision is not subject to revision’. Long live freedom of speech!”

Нам закрыли счета в Британии. Все счета. ‘Решение пересмотру не подлежит’. Да здравствует свобода слова! — Маргарита Симоньян (@M_Simonyan) October 17, 2016

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said it indicated that “Britain on its way out of the EU abandoned all its commitments to protect the freedom of speech.”

RT reports on the developing situation, at what can only be described as a major escalation from the UK towards Russia. Freedom of press has now fallen victim to the neocon/neo-liberal full spectrum war against the Russian Federation.

The National Westminster Bank has informed RT UK that it will no longer have the broadcaster among its clients. The bank provided no explanation for the decision. “We have recently undertaken a review of your banking arrangements with us and reached the conclusion that we will no longer provide these facilities,” NatWest said in a letter to RT’s London office. The bank said that the entire Royal Bank of Scotland Group, of which NatWest is part, would refuse to service RT. The letter said the decision was final and that it is “not prepared to enter into any discussion in relation to it.”

RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan told RBK business news website…

“We have no idea why it happened, because neither yesterday nor the day before yesterday, nor a month ago, nothing special happened to us, nobody threatened us in any way. Hypothetically, this may have something to do with new British and American sanctions against Russia, which may be announced soon. It may not. Our legal department is dealing with the issue now.”

John Wight told RT…

“It seems more than a coincidence that this has taken place at a time when the anti-Russian propaganda has been ramped up to unprecedented levels.” “This reflects the extent to which the West is losing the information war. RT plays a key role in challenging the narrative of the West and Western media when it comes to events in Ukraine, Syria and the Middle East.”

Via: https://www.rt.com/news/363013-rt-uk-accounts-blocked/

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