Resentment without an account

In France and Belgium, the accounts of representative offices of the MIA Russia Today were arrested, RIA Novosti reports . Nevertheless, journalists work as usual.

“The accounts of the Russian MIA Today representative office in Paris and Brussels were arrested. However, contrary to media reports, the Russian MIA today in France and Belgium were not arrested - the agency has no property, they are rented by state procurement. The agency’s journalists in France and Belgium work as usual. Nobody blocked access to the building,” the one said in the building, ”the said in the building. message.

The arrests of the assets of Russian representative offices abroad also affected the TASS news agency. "Due to the fact that the property of TASS belongs to the Russian Federation, the current circumstances also affected it. We are working in the framework of the general state policy on this issue. We do not disclose details," RIA Novosti said in the agency. First Deputy General Director of TASS, Mikhail Gusman, told the RSN that in France the agency has no assets.

Earlier on Thursday, Forbes announced with reference to Tim Osborne, a director representing the interests of former shareholders of the GML Yukos company, which was also arrested in Paris, which housed the RT channel.

The editor -in -chief of MIA "Russia Today" Margarita Simonyan denied this information. She emphasized that neither the RT representative office nor his building in Paris was not. Simonyan also noted that after the incident in France, Mia made sure that the work of the agency in other countries was not interrupted.

On Thursday, the Belgian ambassador Alex van Mewven was called to the Russian Foreign Ministry. He was declared a decisive protest in connection with the arrest of the accounts of Russian organizations in Belgium.

"The Russian side considers such actions of the competent authorities of the Kingdom of Belgium as an openly unfriendly act, a gross violation of universally recognized norms of international law and requires in this regard to the Belgian side of the adoption of immediate measures to restore the sovereign rights of the Russian Federation and ensure the normal functioning of Russian institutions and legal entities. Otherwise, the Russian side will be forced to consider the issue of adopting adequate The response measures regarding the property of the kingdom of Belgium in the Russian Federation, including the property of the Belgian Embassy in Moscow, as well as its legal entities, ”the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said .

The night before, it became known that the property of all Russian institutions was arrested in Belgium, with the exception of diplomatic murals. The arrest was made on the basis of the decision of the arbitration court in the Hague of July 18, 2014 at the suit of one of the shareholders of the Yukos - the company Yukos Universal Limited. In his decision, announced 10 days later, on July 28, the arbitration ordered Russia to pay yukos $ 50 billion to shareholders, including the Yukos Universal Limited - 1.6 billion euros.

On Thursday, the chairman of the Board of VTB Andrei Kostin said that in France the bills of Russian companies in the local "daughter" of VTB were arrested on the eve . Initially, Kostin said, accounts of Russian diplomatic missions were also arrested. In the morning, however, they were thawed. Meanwhile, the accounts of commercial enterprises remain under arrest. “We solve this problem with lawyers,” the banker concluded.

The head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Alexei Ulyukaev, said that Russia completely excludes the possibility of paying for the claim of former shareholders of the Yukos. At the same time, the minister recognized the “very unpleasant” fact of the arrest of Russian assets in France and Belgium. He noted that the arrests of assets can occur in other countries of the European Union and the United States.

Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, in turn, noted that claims to Russian assets in Belgium should not cause political scandals. He emphasized that "the state and business always have risks." According to Dvorkovich, lawyers are working on this case now.