Russia must “respond appropriately” to restrictions on its media imposed by the West, the TASS news agency cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Friday.
This week the US justice department filed money-laundering charges against two employees of Russian state broadcaster RT over what it called a scheme to hire a US company to produce online content to influence the November presidential election.
“We criticise the West for pursuing the path of destroying our media abroad, they obstruct the dissemination of information, they obstruct the work of our journalists,” Peskov said.
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“And, of course, in this situation of heated confrontation there needs to be reciprocity. Therefore we must respond appropriately.” He gave no examples of what steps Moscow might take in response to the RT case, however.
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