Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov said that with new sanctions against Russian media, US authorities are trying to get rid of an uncomfortable reality in the information sphere and thicken the atmosphere of Russophobia. Telegram channel diplomatic missions.
“The task is clear: to cleanse the information space of inconvenient facts. To thicken the atmosphere of Russophobia by attributing your own failure to an external factor. This time the Rossiya Segodnya media group and its subsidiaries were chosen as targets,” the diplomat said.
Shortly before this, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Russia warned the United States about its reaction to the sanctions imposed by the United States on Russian media the day before.
September 4 US Treasury sanctions imposed Against RT and the channel’s editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan. The ministry said that American officials were accused of violating the Foreign Agents Act.
Putin before accused The West is persecuting Russian journalists.