‘White House sanctioning own children now?’ Moscow blasts CNN’s ‘false’ US school closure report — RT News
The CNN is spreading ‘false data’ by reporting that Russia closed the Anglo-American School of Moscow in retaliation to a brand new set of US sanctions, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova mentioned.
“It’s a lie. It seems the White House has fully misplaced its thoughts and is now developing with sanctions towards their very own youngsters,” Zakharova commented on the report on her Facebook web page.
“The CNN broadcaster and different Western media have once more distributed false data citing official US sources,” the spokeswoman added.
The Anglo-American School of Moscow has additionally denied media hypothesis, with director Ian Forster writing on Facebook that the “faculty is planning to open as scheduled following the New Year’s break.”
Earlier, CNN cited an unnamed US official who claimed that the Russian authorities ordered the closure of the Anglo-American School of Moscow, attended by youngsters from the US, UK, and Canadian embassy staffs, and a US Embassy trip home in Serebryany Bor.
The report was shortly picked up by different Western media shops, which got here up with juicy, Star Wars-style headlines for his or her tales, together with “Russia Strikes Back: Moscow Closes US School in Response to Obama Sanctions,” from ABC, and “Putin fires again by closing American faculty and embassy trip dwelling in Moscow…” from the Daily Mail.
The CNN supply referred to as the transfer a direct retaliation to the closure of two Russian diplomatic compounds in Maryland and New York, which US President Barack Obama introduced on Thursday as a part of a set of recent sanctions towards Russian.
According to Obama, the countermeasures had been launched in response to what he referred to as “the Russian authorities’s aggressive harassment of US officers and cyber operations aimed on the US election.”
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Thirty-five Russian diplomats have been expelled from the US, and 9 Russian entities, together with the GRU (Russian Military Intelligence) and the FSB (Federal Security Service), added to Washington’s blacklist.
The amenities in Maryland and New York, positioned within the coastal space, had been utilized by Russian Embassy employees for leisure functions. Many diplomats and their households who went there to rejoice New Year’s had been pressured to go away after the announcement of the sanctions.
Putin’s very good response, CNN disgraced once more with “closed faculty” fakenews & noone discovered on a sanctioned entity deal with in Moscow. Yum!
— Alexey Yaroshevsky (@Yaro_RT) December 30, 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned that Moscow won’t reply in form to the US restrictions.
“We will not trigger issues for American diplomats. We’re not going to expel anyone. We received’t forbid their households and youngsters from utilizing acquainted trip spots in the course of the New Year holidays,” he mentioned.
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“Moreover, I invite the kids of all American diplomats with accreditation in Russia to New Year’s and Christmas festivities within the Kremlin,” Putin added.
Though the Russian chief expressed remorse that President Obama is concluding his time period “in such a manner,” he added: “I nonetheless want him and his household a Happy New Year.
“I additionally want President-elect Donald Trump and your entire American folks a Happy New Year!”
According to Putin, Russia will “take additional strikes on restoring Russian-American relations primarily based on the insurance policies that the administration of President-elect Donald Trump adopts.”
