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NatWest, a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, will refuse service to RT:
NatWest bank has frozen the accounts of Russia's state-run broadcaster RT, its editor-in-chief says. Margarita Simonyan tweeted: "They've closed our accounts in Britain. All our accounts. 'The decision is not subject to review.' Praise be to freedom of speech!"
An MP from Russia's ruling party has said the country's Parliament will "demand an explanation" from the UK. RT says the bank gave no explanation for its decision. It said the entire Royal Bank of Scotland Group, of which NatWest is part, was refusing to service RT.
[...] A letter posted online by the channel appears to show that the freeze is not in effect yet. It warns that banking facilities will be "cancelled and closed" on 12 December. MP Sergei Zheleznyak, from the ruling "United Russia" party, told the privately-owned Interfax news agency: "We will be demanding an explanation from Britain's official authorities in connection with this situation." [...] A member of the Russian parliament's upper house, Igor Morozov, has called for the BBC's bank accounts in Russia to be "arrested" as a reprisal. RT chief Ms Simonyan said the closure included the personal accounts of some senior staff working in the UK.
Unnamed sources in the British Treasury denied involvement and said the decision was made by NatWest itself. The Prime Minister Theresa May's office told reporters that "It's a matter for the bank and it's for them to decide who they offer services to based on their own risk appetite".
(Score: 5, Insightful) by art guerrilla on Tuesday October 18 2016, @01:55AM
...there will be status quo apologists who insist this is all a private bidness doing their own bidness...
except, it almost certainly is not; it is almost certainly -regardless of public protestations- that a certain Empire (gee, who could it be ! ? ! ?) exhorted their little flying monkeys to the four corners of the known earth in order to monkeywrench russkie interests wherever our skullduggery can reach...
there was no 'private' action at all, it was done at the behest of Empire's puppetmasters and spooks...
*of course*, as a matter of principle, we should abhor this, just as we should have when they used blatantly unfair financial warfare against wikileaks, etc...
however, the outrages just clip by like power poles along a highway roadtrip... before you can point at one disturbing outrage, it has clipped by the news cycle and is in your rear view mirror, *nobody* talks about *that* old news any more...
and another clips by,
and another,
and another,
until it is just a never-ending sequence of horrors that clip by without being able to focus on any one of them, much less all of them...
outrage is impossible to sustain for every horror clipping down the road and disappearing along your periphery...
until you blow a fuse, then it is : 'okay, *EVERYBODY* out of the pool ! ! !'
just 'cause the one retarded kid pooped in it...
(in the preceding morality play, the part of The Retard is played by Empire)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @04:17AM
I guess we should have realized that all those people who fought the cold war wouldn't just let it go... The people were relieved when it ended, the agents were pissed they didn't get to "win" as such and have been shitting on everyone since. Your people, my people, who cares fuck all the peons! We're gonna WIN over those damn commies!
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday October 18 2016, @05:06AM
there are two sides to this. The same applies to Putin and his old Politburo comrades. The Russian people are really just like us,
When life isn't going right, go left.