Posted on 02/05/2016 11:12:26 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Horst Seehofer, the premier of the state of Bavaria, a nominal partner in Angela Merkel's coalition, and a persistent thorn in her side, has called for a sea change in diplomatic dealings with Russia, following his trip to Moscow.
"Extending anti-Russia sanctions was a mistake," said Seehofer, referring to the EU's decision to prolong travel restrictions and economic embargoes against Russian individuals and companies over Ukraine late last year. "We need to consider the reality -- they cannot be removed straight away. But we can deploy political means to repeal them... I think that they can be revoked in the foreseeable future."
Journalists returned to the subject of sanctions repeatedly as Seehofer spent an hour answering questions at the final press conference, following the two-day visit during which he met Russian President Vladimir Putin, and signed bilateral trade deals on behalf of his home state.
Seehofer tried to steer clear of incendiary soundbites that could annoy his partners in Berlin, insisting that he "wouldn't remove sanctions this month," and insisting any rapprochement was "conditional on Ukraine and Russia following the terms of the Minsk agreements."
But for all his careful phrases, the trip, unapproved by Merkel, had already conjured up a storm in Germany, with its Russia policy chief Gernot Erler, accusing him of "breaking the EU consensus" and "letting himself be exploited for publicity." Newspaper editorials accused him of "disloyalty" to Merkel, and "meddling" with his unsanctioned overtures.
(Excerpt) Read more at rt.com ...
"RT [Russia Today] has been called a propaganda outlet for the Russian government[10][11][12] and its foreign policy[10][11][13][14] by former Russian officials[15] and by news reporters,[16] including former RT reporters.[17][18][19]
It has also been accused of spreading disinformation.[20][21][22]
The United Kingdom media regulator Ofcom has threatened RT with sanctions because of repeated violations of its rules on impartiality.[23]
The network states that it offers a 'Russian perspective' on global events.[24]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_%28TV_network%29
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Nov 2015...
Vladimir Putin's media Svengali who was found dead in DC hotel was 'murdered for being an FBI informant'
"Nicknamed the 'Bulldozer', Lesin was one of the key props of the Putin presidency, personally masterminding a wide-ranging media crackdown which has left the vast majority of Russian TV stations and newspapers obedient to the Kremlin."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3315994/Vladimir-Putin-s-media-mastermind-dead-DC-hotel-murdered-FBI-informant-alive-claim-Russians.html#ixzz3rOUopg7Q
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The following article is from last December (2014)
"Mikhail Lesin has stepped down as head of major state-controlled media holding Gazprom-Media, the company said late last week.
Gazprom-Media, whose holdings include independent radio station Ekho Moskvy, said Lesin's resignation was due to family reasons, Russian media reports said Friday.
The holding's board of directors will finalize his resignation at an upcoming meeting, Gazprom-Media was cited by Ekho Moskvy as saying. No replacement has been named.
Earlier, a flurry of reports of Lesin's imminent resignation appeared on Russian news wires, all based on undisclosed sources and giving divergent accounts of the motive.
Forbes Russia cited sources in the media and government as confirming the resignation, with one of the individuals claiming that the decision was made personally by President Vladimir Putin."
Predictable reaction.
Sometimes RT prints the truth.
More than our media.
That's how the devil operates. Mixing lies with the truth.
Russia has stepped up its military maneuvers to a level unseen since the height of the Cold War, according to a new report released by NATO Thursday.
Jens Stoltenberg, the alliance's secretary general and author of the report, noted that Moscow has conducted at least 18 large-scale exercises over the past three years, "some of which have involved more than 100,000 troops."
Those exercises included several simulated nuclear attacks against NATO allies and partner nations ..."
I really don’t see the self-loathing, proto-fascist, social-engineering progressives Merkel and the EU in Brussels as our allies.
If Russia is such a huge threat, let them defend themselves. It might wake them up from their multi-culti stupor.
“breaking the EU consensus”
Breaking a consensus is something principled folks do.
Seehofer fur Bundeskanzler 2016!
Taking lessons from the US media. Give them the Walter Cronkite award.
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