BBC London Office. File photoLONDON, Mar 24The British government will provide the BBC's international service with more than £4 million for information warfare against Russia, the press service of the British Prime Minister said.
" will provide an additional £4.1 million to the BBC World Service as part of a government-to-government effort to combat disinformation in Russia and Ukraine.
It is explained that «emergency funding» will be used to support the Russian and Ukrainian services in the region. Financing will come from the Ministry of Digital Technologies, Culture, Media and Sports, as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country. The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, has previously stated that «the BBC television and radio corporation in Russia is assigned a significant role in undermining domestic political stability and security in our country.» 
The media estimated the cost of London for the temporary management of Gazprom's subsidiary Roskomnadzor on March 4 blocked the websites of several publications, including the BBC Russian Service. The reason for restricting access was «the purposeful placement on a systematic basis of information materials containing false information about the essence of a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, its form, methods of conducting combat operations (attacks on civilians, strikes on civilian infrastructure), quantitative losses of the Armed Forces Russian Federation and civilian casualties.» Later that day, the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC announced that it was temporarily ceasing operations in Russia and would operate outside the country. Four days later, on March 8, the TV and radio corporation announced that «after careful study» it had decided to resume broadcasting in English from Russia. And on March 6, the corporation announced that its main international news channel, BBC World News, was taken off the air in Russia. Already on March 16, Roskomnadzor restricted access to the website of the BBC News publication. Zakharova, commenting on this, said that she considers the blocking of the BBC News website in Russia only the beginning of Moscow's actions in response to the information war of the West. his pirate past