Go to the media bank RT France office in Paris. File photoVIENNA, Sep 15The decision of the EU court on the complaint of RT France will be studied in the Russian Federation for possible countermeasures, Russian Deputy Representative Maxim Buyakevich said Thursday at a meeting of the Permanent Council of the OSCE. media, including RT. The TV channel has already announced its intention to file an appeal. «The consequences of the verdict, including legal ones, will be studied by the competent Russian authorities, including with a view to taking possible counter measures,» Buyakevich said, adding that «the story with RT France requires a clear and public reaction Representative (OSCE — ed.) on Freedom of the Media Teresa Ribeiro.» According to Buyakevich, by the decision on the appeal of RT France, «the court of the European Union, that is,» collective Brussels «, once again showed its bias and anti-Russian charge.» The Russian diplomatic mission to the UN in Geneva earlier officially appealed to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet with a request to respond to the violation of freedom of speech in connection with the blocking of RT France. The European Union on March 2 banned the distribution of the signal and content of RT and Sputnik against the backdrop of the Russian operation to demilitarize Ukraine, the decision was made public in the official journal of the EU. In particular, the following organizations are listed in the appendix 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 specifying details. Also the EU suspended broadcasting on its territory of three state-owned Russian TV channels: Russia RTR/RTR Planet, Russia 24 and TV Center — International. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow did not expect the West to impose sanctions on journalists, 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 regarding 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 US and French elections, but did not provide any evidence. Official Russian representatives called such statements unfounded.
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