Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the imposition of sanctions by the United States against Russian media is an “attack on freedom of speech.”
“The situation today is extraordinary. Yesterday, Russian journalists in the United States were subjected to aggression. They were subjected to a real terrorist information attack. As corporations and in their personal capacity,” Maria Zakharova said at the BRICS Media Summit.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasised that the new restrictions on the Russian media are “an attack on freedom of speech, an attack on the profession of journalist, an attack on human dignity”.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the Western ideas of the new world order hypocrisy. According to him, they are aimed solely at preserving the neo-colonial system, showing their essence in the form of “hypocrisy, double standards and claims”.