Last Updated on 06/09/2024 by Arun jain
Russia is to impose domestic sanctions on United States media in response to Washington’s sanctions on Russian state-funded outlet RT, the Kremlin said Friday.
Washington indicted two RT employees and slapped its top editors with sanctions on Wednesday, accusing them of
“A symmetric response is not possible. There is no state news agency in the US, and there is no state TV channel in the US,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the RIA Novosti news agency. will be banned.”
Russia vehemently denies influence, but wants to convey its ‘perspective’
Peskov maintains that Russia does not want to interfere, adding that Washington is trying to block Moscow’s perspective on world affairs.
A Kremlin spokesman added, “Washington continues to try to put pressure on Russia, on Russian citizens and even on the Russian media, which works to inform both citizens inside our country and public opinion around the world about what is happening from our perspective. ” .
“Washington doesn’t even acknowledge that there should be alternatives for anyone to get news from our perspective. This is nothing but obvious pressure. We strongly condemn this attitude as unacceptable.”
Most US media outlets cut or pulled their staff from Russia as the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Western countries have separately restricted access to RT, formerly known as Russia Today, and other Russian-owned news outlets, accusing them of spreading pro-Kremlin propaganda.
RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan and her deputy Elizaveta Brodskaya are among the 10 individuals and two organizations sanctioned by the United States.
The US accused Simonyan of being “central” to Russia’s efforts to spread its influence and accused Brodskaya of reporting directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
jsi/jcg (AFP, Reuters)
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