Sputnik news agency and radio studioATHENA, Mar 11The trade union of employees of the Greek state television and radio ERT said that the European Union is pursuing a policy of McCarthyism and bans RT and Sputnik, freedom of speech and freedom of the press are being suppressed in Greece, and the state channel is biased in covering events in Ukraine. on unhindered access to pluralistic information, the only necessary condition to protect objectivity,» the Panhellenic Federation of Hellenic Radio and Television Associations (POSPERT), a trade union organization for Greek radio and television workers, said in a statement.
The Union of Syrian Journalists condemned the blocking of RT and Sputnik in the European Union, according to POSPERT, this situation in Greece has been developing since 2010, when during the financial crisis they were not allowed to publicly discuss on an equal footing loan agreements and memorandums with a trio of creditors. «This has continued and strengthened during the pandemic era in state-fed private media, when «experts» monopolized information, giving legitimacy to unconstitutionally imposed and divisive government measures (of the fight against coronavirus),» the statement said. information hyper-monopolization, culminating in the European Union's ban in the McCarthy style of the RT and Sputnik agencies, that is, any media that do not like and do not correspond to the mainstream propaganda.In the «democratic» EU, with complete freedom of expression of the will of its members, a kind of racist authoritarianism is applied that can deprive the population of waiting for the opportunity to decide for themselves what their choice is, to judge for themselves who misinforms, when and why they use fake news propaganda,” the trade union believes. say ERT officials. According to them, the ERT signal covers only 70% to 75% of the territory of Greece, which deprives the Greek people of the opportunity to receive uninterrupted information from public television.
RT website under DDoS attack from abroad» The absence of an ERT correspondent in Russia and rumors that (channel managers) wanted the journalist to be somewhere in the (Athens region) Kypseli predetermine the lack of objectivity. Indeed, is there Is the correspondent in Russia or is objectivity still being sacrificed for transatlantic and European political expediency?» — the document says. The trade union considers it wrong to stop shortwave broadcasting of Greek radio, noting the BBC, «in the face of catastrophic events», quickly resumes broadcasting on «short waves», redefining their role and importance. POSPERT stated that as a result such government policy was the collapse of the constitutional role that ERT is designed to fulfill. «ERT staff know well what censorship is, they also know what an attack on work, information, culture, entertainment is. Fresh memories of an attack on democracy when it was turned off ERT in June 2013, and even more so the condemnation of the unemployment of our colleagues in the media, who have been silenced in recent days.POSPERT opposes such a policy, openly stating that it will stand in solidarity with employees and continue to condemn the attack on objective information,» the statement said. .
The American social network Reddit banned links to RT and Sputnik In June 2013, public television ERT was closed by decision of the government of Antonis Samaras. Journalists were accused of extravagance and non-transparent budget policy. Journalists believe that the closure of the channel was due to his independent position in covering cabinet politics and called the incident a political massacre. Journalists' unions argued that the decision to close ERT violated European human rights charters. Employees of state television broadcasted television and radio broadcasts via the Internet for two years without receiving wages. The Greek state radio and television ERT resumed work exactly two years after the closure, in June 2015. Earlier, head of the European Commission Ursula announced the blocking of a number of Russian media in the EU von der Leyen as one of the sanctions measures in connection with the Russian-led special operation to demilitarize Ukraine. Von der Leyen said the ban will include RT, Sputnik and their subsidiaries. In the EU, the TikTok and Instagram accounts of these Russian media have already ceased to work, Meta will generally restrict access to them in the EU. Sputnik previously reported that access to the agency's Instagram accounts is already restricted in almost three dozen European countries. On Monday, it became known that Sputnik and RT's TikTok accounts were also blocked in the EU countries. Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, commenting on the situation, said that Moscow did not expect the West to impose sanctions on journalists, athletes, cultural figures. The head of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, Valery Fadeev, sent an appeal to the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Teresa Ribeiro, and urged her to take measures to comply with the norms relating to freedom of the press, due to the harassment of Russian-language publications.
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