A hall in the building of the State Duma. Archive photoMOSCOW, May 23.The leaders in the number of discriminatory actions and repressions against Russian media and journalists abroad are Latvia, Ukraine, France, said Vasily Piskarev, chairman of the State Duma commission to investigate foreign interference in Russia's internal affairs. «The State Duma commission on foreign interference analyzed information for the last 5 years about discriminatory actions and outright repressions against Russian media and journalists abroad.As it turned out, 13 countries behave most aggressively (Latvia, France, Moldova, Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, USA, Great Britain, Georgia, Germany, Canada, Estonia, Romania ). The leaders in the number of incidents are Latvia, Ukraine and France,» Piskarev wrote in his Telegram channel.Where will calls to eradicate the Russian world lead Europe? to the Russian media. «This is how Kirill Vyshinsky, the editor-in-chief of the RIA Novosti-Ukraine portal, spent a year and a half behind bars in Ukraine on a far-fetched charge, and Elena Cherysheva, head of the Sputnik Meedia information portal, was placed under house arrest,» he recalled. , The West, fearing the word of truth, not only bans Russian media in their countries today, but also imposes its own censorship on the Russian information space, blocking Russian citizens from accessing domestic media on social networks and the YouTube video service.
RKN supported the project on a mirror response to discrimination against Russian media Piskarev noted that the bill developed by the commission on mirror measures in response to discrimination against Russian media abroad would be «an adequate response to hostile actions against our journalists», but they look much more humane and civilized than that information war, which is deployed today against Russia. The State Duma may consider this bill at a plenary session on May 24. In early March, the Estonian information Internet portal Sputnik Meedia announced the cessation of work due to pressure and restrictions from Estonian banks and authorities, as well as because of threats against their employees. As editor-in-chief Elena Cherysheva stated at the time, for a year banks in Estonia froze employees' salaries and closed Sputnik Meedia accounts on the basis of suspicions of «money laundering, terrorist financing, illegal sale of alcohol.» In addition, recently many newsmakers have refused to cooperate with the portal, and the editor-in-chief and employees have been receiving «blatant threats from obscure personalities.» Sputnik Meedia was created by former employees of Sputnik Estonia, which, after four years of work, was closed two years ago because of Estonian police threats.
A Latin American journalist revealed fakes about Russia's special operation in Ukraine. 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 Russia's special operation to demilitarize Ukraine. Von der Leyen said the ban will include RT, Sputnik and their subsidiaries. The accounts of these Russian media on TikTok and Instagram* have already stopped working in the EU, Meta* will generally restrict access to them in the EU. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier that Moscow did not expect the West to impose sanctions on journalists and athletes representatives of culture. 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. The situation with the Russian media in the West in recent years has become everything is more difficult. 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. media blocking for fake news
