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Russian intelligence claims to foil assassination of RT chief

Russian intelligence claims to foil assassination of RT chief

Russia’s intelligence company claimed to have foiled an assassination try on Margarita Simonyan, the chief editor of broadcaster RT, on Saturday.

The Federal Security Service (FSB) mentioned the Kyiv secret service (SBU) paid a Russian neo-Nazi to kill Simonyan, a fervent supporter of Moscow’s battle on Ukraine, and a number one tv presenter, Ksenia Sobchak.

RT printed a video exhibiting a younger man sporting a T-shirt saying Waffen SS, claiming Ukrainians had informed him to hold out the killing.

The man, 18, gave his title and date of start earlier than describing the deliberate crime. He mentioned safety officers arrested him as he ready handy over some weapons.

The Russian secret service incessantly studies on alleged assaults supposedly deliberate by Ukrainian intelligence providers. These claims can’t be independently verified.

However, different backers of the Kremlin’s battle have been killed previously, comparable to well-known navy blogger Vladlen Tatarsky who died in an explosion in a St Petersburg café in April.

Last August, Darya Dugina – daughter of the right-wing nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin – was killed in a automotive bombing close to Moscow.

In May, distinguished Russian author Zakhar Prilepin was critically injured in one other automotive bombing.

Simonyan, who can also be editor-in-chief on the news company Rossiya Segodnya, thanked the key service for saving her life.

According to the FSB, “members of the neo-Nazi group Paragraph-88” have been arrested in Moscow and the Ryazan space after searches at their houses and workplaces.

A Kalashnikov machine gun plus 90 cartridges, knives, truncheons, computer systems and Nazi flags and literature have been seized from the suspects, the FSB mentioned.

The occasion who allegedly ordered the assault was mentioned to have been keen to pay 1.5 million roubles ($16,600 million) for every homicide.

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