Camera at RT conference filmingHAVANA, Mar 16Banning Sputnik and RT from broadcasting in the European Union is a manifestation of «shamelessness», but this recipe is already known, says Rosa Miriam Elizalde, first vice president of the Union of Journalists of Cuba. «What is happening now with these Russian media is shamelessness, but it is we were not surprised, because the same recipe, the same censorship textbook — closing websites, blocking search engines, hushing up one point of view, an attempt to impose thinking on only one side — Cuba has already experienced, «she told RIA Novosti.» All this was applied in relation to us and is used against the governments of the region that challenged the authorities of Washington,» she added. Earlier, the permanent representatives of the EU countries approved a ban on broadcasting Sputnik and RT in the EU. This decision was condemned in many foreign media.Western media have lowered the standards of journalism to unprecedented depths Earlier, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced the blocking of the work of a number of Russian media in the EU as one of the sanctions measures in connection with the special operation carried out by Russia 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. Later it became known that Sputnik and RT's TikTok accounts were also blocked in the EU countries. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said earlier that Moscow did not expect the West to impose sanctions on journalists, athletes, and 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.
Meta declared war on the Russians. It will have to be denazifiedRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. The situation with the Russian media in the West has become more and more difficult in recent years. In November 2016, the European Parliament adopted a resolution stating the need to counter the Russian media, with Sputnik and RT named as the main threats in the document. A number of Western politicians, including US senators and congressmen, as well as the President of France, accused Sputnik and RT of interfering in the elections in the US and France, but did not provide any evidence. Official Russian representatives called such statements unsubstantiated.
