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Russian Foreign Ministry Calls US Sanctions Against Russian Media Extraordinary Situation

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The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in Moscow. - Sputnik International, 1920, 14.09.2024
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - New sanctions imposed by the US against Russian media constitute an extraordinary situation, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday.
"Today the situation is extraordinary. Yesterday, Russian journalists in the US were subjected to aggression. They were subjected to a real terrorist information attack, both as corporations and in their personal capacity," Zakharova told a BRICS media summit.
Zakharova also characterized the US sanctions as "an attack on freedom of speech."
"In addition to the monstrous, completely unjustified political statements made yesterday by Washington regarding the media, parallel to this, there is also physical aggression against journalists," the spokeswoman said.
Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of RT and Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group, at the plenary session Fighting for digital sovereignty. How to Preserve a Common Information Space? at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2021 at the Expoforum Exhibition and Convention Centre. - Sputnik International, 1920, 08.09.2024
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