Communications watchdog of Russia has constricted access to BBC Russian language service as well as the Meduza media outlet and Radio Liberty on Friday.
On Thursday, the foreign ministry of Russia said that the BBC was being used to undermine the internal political situation and security in Russia. The ministry also claimed BBC cast false information about the ongoing conflict of Russia with Ukraine.
According to an official notice received on March 3, the communications watchdog of Russia said the Russian service of Radio liberty had spread “obviously fake socially significant information about the alleged Russian attack on Ukrainian territory”.
Radio Liberty in an official notice denied all allegations, siting the information to be wrong. Describing the situation in Ukraine has become a sensitive issue in Moscow.
Russia has several times complained that Western media organisations often portray anti-Russian and a partial view of the world while failing to hold their own leaders to account for devastating foreign wars such as Iraq and corruption.
Western leaders have raised concerns about the dominance of state media in Russia for years and remarks that the freedoms won in the 1991 post-Soviet Union Collapse have been rolled back under the leadership of President Vladimir Putin.
President Putin said the to ensure Russian security after the United States enlarged the NATO military alliance around Russia’s borders and supported pro-Western leaders in Kyiv, such military operations were essential.
Published By: Jaspreet Singh
Edited By: Kritika Kashyap
