Sputnik international news agency and radio standMOSCOW, 24 MarYouTube video hosting has blocked all Sputnik resources, they are not available in 32 languages, Anna Starkova, head of the press service of the Rossiya Segodnya media group, said. abroad, works successfully. In many countries, it was among the top media, and now all our resources, all Sputnik resources in 32 languages, they are not available, YouTube simply blocked them,» Starkova told reporters on Thursday.
Twitter blocked the account of Russia's Deputy Ambassador to the UNShe noted that Sputnik's slogan is «Say what others are silent about.» Starkova added that no one else on YouTube can see an alternative point of view.» In addition, resources in Russian were also blocked — this is RIA Novosti, first of all, the largest news agency in Russia, and all our other resources in Russian «, — she emphasized. According to her, the agency will find a way to convey the opinion to readers, and will always work to the last reader. «Our state media are facing the fact that we are stigmatized. we are a «state media» and are under the control of the state of Russia, for some reason such marks were not placed on the accounts of either the BBC or Deutsche Welle, which are also state media,» Starkova explained.
Latvia decides to block access to 71 Russian sitesThe European Union on March 2 banned the distribution of the signal and content of Russia Today and Sputnik against the backdrop of the Russian operation to demilitarize Ukraine, the decision was published in the Official Journal of the EU. In particular, the following organizations are listed in the annex to the decision: RT — Russia Today English, RT — Russia Today UK, RT — Russia Today Germany, RT — Russia Today France and RT — Russia Today Spanish, as well as Sputnik without giving details. On the same day, the American company Meta* disabled the applications of all the resources of the Rossiya Segodnya MIA. Earlier, Instagram* blocked all RT accounts in 27 European countries, and Facebook* took similar measures. YouTube and TikTok have also imposed restrictions on access to RT and Sputnik in Europe. Google has decided to immediately block YouTube channels in Europe associated with the RT channel and the Sputnik agency «in connection with the ongoing» Russian special operation to demilitarize Ukraine. In addition, Google announced the blocking of applications related to RT and Sputnik in the Play Store throughout Europe. 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 regarding freedom of the press, due to the harassment of Russian-language publications.* Meta (Facebook and Instagram social networks) is prohibited in Russia as extremist What Russian resources blocked YouTube
