Moscow will retaliate for the Russian media discrimination in France, RIA Novosti reports. According to the deputy of the head of State Duma Petr Tolstoy Russian media rights must not be curtailed.
The day before the RT Channel representative was not allowed to a French president press-secratary's briefing. This situation has happened in a week after the previous incident when French authorities refused to ma accreditation for the Russian TV Channel.
А symmetrical answer is going to be prepared, the upper house of the Russian parliament has underlined. Senator Andrey Klimov has commented that this case has to be studied first. If these restrictive policies against Russian journalists are conducted by Paris purposefully, the answer stipulated by Russian law to be issued immediately.
Union of Russian Journalists is very concerned about this unfriendly action of the French authorities. It breaks the right of free speech, freedoms of expression and access to information. In all, it contradicts all those basic principles if European democracy.
RF Civic Chamber Commission on Public Diplomacy and Support for Compatriots Abroad Elena Sutormina is going to call OSCE and UN to express their opinion on the restrictive policies against Russian journalists. She has called aforementioned situation "an open censorship. "
Let us remember, several French public figures have demanded to revoke RT TV Channel France licence. Russian new channel started broadcasting from France at the end of 2017.
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