Teh One Who Knocks
01-18-2023, 11:39 AM
By WILL STEWART FOR THE MAILONLINE
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Vladimir Putin's notorious 'Iron Doll' TV host has claimed train strikes in Britain are putting brothels out of business in a bizarre propaganda rant against the UK.
In her latest outlandish swipe at Britain, Olga Skabeyeva - known for her vitriolic backing of the war in Ukraine - claimed the recent industrial action has deprived prostitutes of clients.
'So every English brothel has already lost between £30,000 and £70,000 since January 3,' she informed Russian viewers in her prime time show.
State controlled TV in Moscow likes nothing better than disparaging stories about Britain.
'In Britain, rail strikes have resulted in, among other things, the first time that British prostitutes cannot receive their clients,' said propaganda show presenter Skabeyeva, 38.
Skabeyeva said punters are 'simply are unable to get to the ladies of love'.
'Electric trains are not running,' she said.
Sex workers were now 'the poor' as a result of the industrial action, she explained.
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Her report was seized on by Ukrainian official Anton Geraschenko, with a sharp riposte.
'According to Skabeyeva, ordinary customers are now unable to get to the brothels by train because of the railway workers' strike,' he posted.
'Putin's faithful mouthpiece even calculated the amount of damage for each brothel.'
Even before the war began Putin's 'Iron Doll' Olga Skabeyeva was regularly spouting wild pro-Kremlin rants which have only intensified since Russian troops crossed into Ukraine on February 24 last year.
Along with her husband Yevgeny Popov, she has spread baseless conspiracy theories, overstated Moscow's war successes, parroted Kremlin lies about 'Nazis' in Ukraine, and issued dire warnings of World War Three and threats against the West.
Born in 1984 under the Soviet Union, Skabeyeva went on to study journalism at the Faculty of Journalism at Saint Petersburg State University from which she graduated with honours in 2008.
Her career began at a local newspaper, and she made a name for herself in 2012 and 2013 for her coverage of the Pussy Riot trials, the parallel anti-government rallies and subsequent criminal investigation into Russian opposition supporters.
Skabeyeva's damning reports into the anti-government rallies got her noticed by TV critics, with one describing her as Russian state TV's 'special operation forces'. A blogger known only as 'Interviewer' christened her the 'Iron doll of Putin's TV'.
The blogger described her as having 'metal in her eyes and iron in her voice' and said she 'exposes all the wretchedness of the March against scoundrels and the vile self-interest of its organizers'.
Later, in 2018, Skabeyeva was involved in efforts to discredit the British investigation into the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal by Novichok nerve agent in the English city of Salisbury.
Sergei Skripal was a former Russian military officer and double agent for the British intelligence agencies, and it is widely accepted that Russian agents were commanded to assassinate him on British soul.
British authorities identifying two Russian suspects as being behind the poisoning which also resulted in the death of British woman Dawn Sturgess.
Despite this, Skabeyeva's television programme maintained that the case was 'an elaborate British plot to smear Russia'.
In one bizarre and homophobic report about gay marriage in the UK and France, Skabeyeva falsely told viewers that 40 percent of children in the country raised by same-sex parents 'have venereal diseases'.
Her TV show 60 Minutes, which she has hosted with her husband Popov since 2016, has made other similarly outlandish claims.
The programme has alleged that Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 - widely understood to have been shot down by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory in Ukraine - was actually destroyed by a Ukrainian jet.
It has also claimed that genocide has been carried out in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region against Russian speakers - a lie that the Kremlin has more recently pushed in order to justify Putin's brutal and illegal invasion.
Their 60 Minutes show has also called Ukraine's pro-Western government, which came to power in 2014 after a revolution, as being 'fascist'.
It is unclear when exactly Skabeyeva met and married husband Popov, but they now rank among Russia's richest propagandists with a combined fortune of more than 300 million roubles ($4 million).
Their fortune was unveiled in an investigation carried out the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) - founded by Russian jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
According to Russian investigative outlet The Insider, she is said to earn 12.8 million roubles per year, while Popov earns 12.9 million. Their only reported source of income is from a state-owned Russian media company and its Russia1 subsidiary.
Therefore, their vast wealth is otherwise unexplained. The couple reacted angrily to the report, denying that they were paid as much as was reported.
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Vladimir Putin's notorious 'Iron Doll' TV host has claimed train strikes in Britain are putting brothels out of business in a bizarre propaganda rant against the UK.
In her latest outlandish swipe at Britain, Olga Skabeyeva - known for her vitriolic backing of the war in Ukraine - claimed the recent industrial action has deprived prostitutes of clients.
'So every English brothel has already lost between £30,000 and £70,000 since January 3,' she informed Russian viewers in her prime time show.
State controlled TV in Moscow likes nothing better than disparaging stories about Britain.
'In Britain, rail strikes have resulted in, among other things, the first time that British prostitutes cannot receive their clients,' said propaganda show presenter Skabeyeva, 38.
Skabeyeva said punters are 'simply are unable to get to the ladies of love'.
'Electric trains are not running,' she said.
Sex workers were now 'the poor' as a result of the industrial action, she explained.
https://i.imgur.com/CCjUYxu.png
https://i.imgur.com/3h3SmRf.png
https://i.imgur.com/jqLC41H.png
Her report was seized on by Ukrainian official Anton Geraschenko, with a sharp riposte.
'According to Skabeyeva, ordinary customers are now unable to get to the brothels by train because of the railway workers' strike,' he posted.
'Putin's faithful mouthpiece even calculated the amount of damage for each brothel.'
Even before the war began Putin's 'Iron Doll' Olga Skabeyeva was regularly spouting wild pro-Kremlin rants which have only intensified since Russian troops crossed into Ukraine on February 24 last year.
Along with her husband Yevgeny Popov, she has spread baseless conspiracy theories, overstated Moscow's war successes, parroted Kremlin lies about 'Nazis' in Ukraine, and issued dire warnings of World War Three and threats against the West.
Born in 1984 under the Soviet Union, Skabeyeva went on to study journalism at the Faculty of Journalism at Saint Petersburg State University from which she graduated with honours in 2008.
Her career began at a local newspaper, and she made a name for herself in 2012 and 2013 for her coverage of the Pussy Riot trials, the parallel anti-government rallies and subsequent criminal investigation into Russian opposition supporters.
Skabeyeva's damning reports into the anti-government rallies got her noticed by TV critics, with one describing her as Russian state TV's 'special operation forces'. A blogger known only as 'Interviewer' christened her the 'Iron doll of Putin's TV'.
The blogger described her as having 'metal in her eyes and iron in her voice' and said she 'exposes all the wretchedness of the March against scoundrels and the vile self-interest of its organizers'.
Later, in 2018, Skabeyeva was involved in efforts to discredit the British investigation into the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal by Novichok nerve agent in the English city of Salisbury.
Sergei Skripal was a former Russian military officer and double agent for the British intelligence agencies, and it is widely accepted that Russian agents were commanded to assassinate him on British soul.
British authorities identifying two Russian suspects as being behind the poisoning which also resulted in the death of British woman Dawn Sturgess.
Despite this, Skabeyeva's television programme maintained that the case was 'an elaborate British plot to smear Russia'.
In one bizarre and homophobic report about gay marriage in the UK and France, Skabeyeva falsely told viewers that 40 percent of children in the country raised by same-sex parents 'have venereal diseases'.
Her TV show 60 Minutes, which she has hosted with her husband Popov since 2016, has made other similarly outlandish claims.
The programme has alleged that Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 - widely understood to have been shot down by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory in Ukraine - was actually destroyed by a Ukrainian jet.
It has also claimed that genocide has been carried out in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region against Russian speakers - a lie that the Kremlin has more recently pushed in order to justify Putin's brutal and illegal invasion.
Their 60 Minutes show has also called Ukraine's pro-Western government, which came to power in 2014 after a revolution, as being 'fascist'.
It is unclear when exactly Skabeyeva met and married husband Popov, but they now rank among Russia's richest propagandists with a combined fortune of more than 300 million roubles ($4 million).
Their fortune was unveiled in an investigation carried out the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) - founded by Russian jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
According to Russian investigative outlet The Insider, she is said to earn 12.8 million roubles per year, while Popov earns 12.9 million. Their only reported source of income is from a state-owned Russian media company and its Russia1 subsidiary.
Therefore, their vast wealth is otherwise unexplained. The couple reacted angrily to the report, denying that they were paid as much as was reported.