Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Russian media gets outlawed in the EU

We’ve repeatedly made it clear that our country is coming under information attacks from NATO and its individual member states. The collective institutions within the bloc are working against our nation in the information sphere.

Citing the Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency, Věra Jourová, Bloomberg reported that the European Union, which has effectively become NATO’s commercial appendage, is planning to ban broadcasting by several more Russian media outlets. We are clear-eyed about the fact that this agency spreads disinformation, and is also used to leak information by dedicated entities. Bloomberg is essentially being used as a gutter to spread such information. I’m not sure whether this will happen now or later, or whether there are specific decisions on the table waiting to be implemented, or if it is still a work in progress. I do not have that information.

I would like to remind the hotheads in Brussels that dozens of journalists from EU countries live comfortably and work in Russia.

I will let you in on a “secret:” each time we try to send them home in response to restrictions imposed on Russian journalists, they are reluctant to go. They may hate Russia in the articles they are paid for, but they enjoy life here. If such measures are taken against Russian journalists by the EU, collective Brussels, or individual countries, Western correspondents will have to feel the pinch of our response. Previously, they felt our love; now, they will have to face the consequences of our response. Just like we responded swiftly and severely to the harassment of Russian journalists in the past, we will do so again.

If even one Russian media outlet faces unwarranted restrictions, it will have repercussions for their colleagues (Western journalists) in Russia. This is not a threat or a warning, but a description of an inevitable scenario under certain circumstances that may be orchestrated by the West. So, we just wanted to make things clear in advance.