Duma Includes Georgia in the list of Countries Hostile to Russian Media
By The Messenger Staff
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
According to the head of the special commission of the Russian Duma Vasily Piskariov, Georgia is among the leading countries in terms of discrimination against the Russian media.
Piskariov is the head of the State Duma Commission investigating foreign interference in Russia's internal affairs. According to him, the analysis of the last 5 years has shown that the most aggressive are the Russian media: Latvia, Ukraine, and France, but the list also includes Moldova, Poland, Lithuania, USA, UK, Georgia, Germany, Canada, Estonia, Romania.
According to Piskariov, there has been a mass campaign in the West for years to discriminate against the Russian media.
"We are talking about refusing accreditations, as well as creating banking problems and stopping broadcasting. In addition, Russian media representatives are stopped at the border, as well as detained for performing their professional activities and because they represent Russian media. “In their own countries, but also impose censorship on our information field,” said the Russian MP.
He notes that a bill has been drafted under which they will take mirror measures.
“The measures we are proposing include the possibility of revoking registrations and licenses to international media if the information they disseminate is correct. That would be an adequate response,” Piskarov said.