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Access to European media, including AFP, blocked in Russia

by AI | 26.Jun 2024 | Europe in brief AI

Moscow plans to block the broadcast in Russia of 81 European media outlets, in response to Brussels’ decision to ban four Russian media outlets.

This photo taken on March 13, 2023, shows the conference room of the editorial staff of the daily newspaper Le Monde in Paris. (Photo: JOEL SAGET / AFP)

Moscow – Russia announced on Tuesday that it will block access to 81 European media outlets, including the AFP site, in “retaliation” for the EU’s decision in May to ban four Russian state media outlets.

This decision comes amidst increasingly heightened tensions between Moscow and the Europeans after more than two and a half years of Russian offensive in Ukraine. Russia accuses the Europeans of their support for Kiev and the EU accuses Moscow of destabilizing actions and interference on the continent.

The list published on Tuesday by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs includes German media Der Spiegel, Spanish media El Mundo and El Pais, Italian television RAI, and French media such as the dailies Le Monde, Libération, and La Croix, the news channels LCI and CNews, as well as Radio France and Arte.

The Twenty-Seven sanctioned four Russian media outlets in May – Voice of Europe, Ria Novosti, Izvestia, and Rossiyskaya Gazeta – accused of pro-Kremlin propaganda. (25.06.2024)