Lenta.ru, RTVI, Gazeta.ru, Public News Service and other publications apologized to RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan for publishing her words that “somewhere over Siberia” it is possible to conduct a nuclear explosion. The Insider drew attention to this.
The same type of refutation states that “Margarita Simonovna Simonyan did not propose to detonate a nuclear bomb, test nuclear weapons over Siberia, or arrange a nuclear explosion.” According to Meduza, the editor-in-chief of Rosbalt, who also published such a text, received it directly from a representative of the propagandist.
At the beginning of October, Simonyan in his program “Ch.T.D.” said that “if you create a thermonuclear explosion, a nuclear explosion, hundreds of kilometers on our territory, somewhere over Siberia,” then “there will be nothing on earth—nothing so terrible: neither a nuclear winter, which everyone is afraid of, nor monstrous radiation «, but «all radio electronics will be disabled.»
The propagandist’s words were criticized by the mayor of Novosibirsk Anatoly Lokot, State Duma deputy from the Altai Territory Maria Prusakova, associate professor of the Novosibirsk State Technical University Valery Khristoforov, as well as scientists and some pro-war telegram channels. At the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, NGS was told that a thermonuclear explosion would have catastrophic consequences for Siberia.
As a result, Simonyan threatened “some commentators” with a statement of false denunciation (Article 306 of the Criminal Code), although “God knows not orders to do so.» She later reported on her Telegram channel that she had filed a statement under the article of libel (Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code) against “an assistant to some deputy”, who previously wrote a statement against her because of her words.