MOSCOW, May 19It is necessary to carefully study the provision on revocation of a license in the bill, which provides for retaliatory measures for foreign media, said Kirill Vyshinsky, executive director of the Rossiya Segodnya media group. “It is clear that the scale of sanctions is growing against our media, Sputnik. is already quite tough, if, for example, in four countries of the European Union the broadcasting of our radio stations has already been stopped, access to our websites has been closed, then in the Baltic States the prosecution of our colleagues, our journalists simply continues,» Vyshinsky said at a meeting in the State Duma. He supported actions that are mirror-like in relation to those countries that apply sanctions against the Russian media. «I, as a journalist, as a person whose media was again closed out of court, when I hear «out of court» a word, a phrase, it As a journalist, as a head of the media, this always worries me.In this sense, I am also skeptical about to the thesis that the Prosecutor General's Office will receive the authority to extrajudicially initiate the deprivation of a license,» he noted. Vyshinsky addressed the audience and asked to once again carefully study the situation related to the deprivation of a license. The bill on a mirror response to the actions of countries that discriminate against Russian The media, as well as giving the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation and his deputies the authority to invalidate the registration of media outlets if they disseminate false information, was submitted to the State Duma on April 6. The bill may be considered by the deputies of the State Duma on May 18.Yesterday, 18:25 RKN supported a project on a mirror response to discrimination against Russian media The bill proposes to supplement the law on media with a new article, giving the Prosecutor General or his deputies the exclusive right to invalidate the registration of media outlets and to terminate the license for television and radio broadcasting when establishing the facts of distribution of illegal media dangerous, unreliable publicly significant information or information expressing clear disrespect for society, the state, the constitution of the Russian Federation, as well as aimed at discrediting the use of the RF Armed Forces related to the imposition by foreign states of political, economic and (or) other sanctions against Russia, its citizens or legal entities. The corresponding decision is sent to Roskomnadzor. In addition, in accordance with the bill, a foreign journalist may lose his accreditation if it is established that there are manifestations of unfriendly actions, restrictions are imposed on the distribution of Russian media working abroad. Against the background of the Russian operation to demilitarize Ukraine, thousands of restrictive measures were applied against Moscow measures, including blocking the resources of the Sputnik agency and RT TV channels. The pages of these media are not available to European users of the Google search engine, their channels on YouTube and on the Meta* platforms are censored (the activities of Meta* (social networks Facebook* and Instagram*) are banned in Russia as extremist). Many local journalists who work with Russian media have been labeled «media affiliated with the Russian government.» The situation with Russian media in the West has become increasingly 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 unfounded.* The activities of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist operation in Ukraine The RKN revealed 400 sites with fakes about the special operation in Ukraine since February
