Moldova has joined the US "media sanctions" against Russia.
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The country joined the restrictions against RT, the Rossiya Segodnya news agency, and its HEAD, Dmitry Kiselev, "in order to ensure the security" of the republic. The US imposed sanctions against them in September. Dmitry Kiselev
Moldova has joined US sanctions against journalist Dmitry Kiselev, the Rossiya Segodnya news agency he heads, and the RT media group, according to the Official Monitor, which publishes the country's regulations.
She also supported sanctions against the ANO "Eurasia" and its DIRECTOR, Nelly Parutenko. This organization is dedicated to "promoting the interests of citizens in the post-Soviet space."
The restrictions were introduced "with the aim of ensuring the security of the Republic of Moldova and combating acts of corruption, taking into account attempts to undermine the rule of law and attempts to jeopardize the conditions for holding democratic, free and fair elections by individuals and legal entities," the document states.
The United States imposed sanctions against the Rossiya Segodnya media group, RIA Novosti, RT, Sputnik, and Ruptly in September. Washington claimed they were involved in "foreign malign influence campaigns and illegal cyber-activity designed to undermine the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and its allies and partners around the world." On September 13, the United States also called on its allies to restrict the activities of the RT television channel and imposed sanctions against Dmitry Kiselev, head of the Rossiya Segodnya international news agency, RT's legal entity, ANO TV Novosti, the Rossiya Segodnya agency, and ANO Eurasia.
RT America was suspended from broadcasting in the United States after the start of Russia's special operation in Ukraine .APPLE andGOOGLE removed RT and Sputnik apps from their stores, and YouTube blocked their channels. Against this backdrop, the channel's management decided to cease content production in the US and lay off most of its staff.
In February 2022, the EU also decided to ban broadcastingRUSSIA Today, Sputnik and their subsidiaries, including RT France and RT DE ( Germany ).
"Great job, team!" RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan commented on the US sanctions on her TELEGRAM channel.
Head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign AffairsSergei Lavrov , assessing the US move, stated that Washington has outdone the British writer George Orwell, author of "1984," in its ideas about totalitarianism.
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