Moscow announced on Tuesday that it was blocking access to the broadcasting of 81 European media on its territory.
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France responds. Paris denounced, Thursday June 27, “the policy of violation of press freedom and intimidation of journalists working in the service of independent information”, two days after Moscow decided to block the broadcasting of 81 European media on its territory. Among these media are the sites of LCI, Radio France, AFP, The world, Release, The cross, The ExpressCNews and Arte TV. “France condemns the decision taken by Russia to ban the broadcast of several dozen European media in Russia”assures a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“This unjustified decision will not hide the reality of Russia’s illegal war of aggression in Ukraine.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairsin a press release
This Russian decision comes in “reprisals” to the EU’s decision in May to ban four Russian state media. The Twenty-Seven agreed in mid-May to sanction Voice of Europe, Ria Novosti, Izvestia and Rossiïskaïa Gazeta, accused by Brussels of spreading pro-Kremlin propaganda. In its statement, Paris refutes any “equivalence between organs disseminating disinformation and state propaganda, independent media”.
