Russian government presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov, in an interview published on Friday (11) by the magazine Expertadmitted that Kremlin promotes media censorship in the country.
“Now we are in times of war censorship, something unprecedented in our country, but the war is also locked in the informative field,” Peskov said.
According to Peskov, censorship is justifiable against means that “discredit” the country.
“It would be incorrect to close my eyes to the means whose goal is to discredit Russia, so I believe this regime (of censorship) is justified now,” he said.
The spokesman also promised that the situation will relax in the future, although it has ensured that “it will not turn to the time of ‘meduses’, who only have bad words about Russia”, alluding to the independent portal Meduzawhich has denounced political deterioration in Russia for years and now has its headquarters in Latvia.
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In addition, Russian dictator secretary Vladimir Putin has positively evaluated “materials with content or patriotic tone” that are increasingly present in the Russian media panorama.
Control on the media in Russia has grown gradually since Putin’s arrival to power and the formal and informal acquisition of the first means of information, as was the case with the private television network TNT – Purchased by state -owned Gazprom, in 2001 – besides the nationalization of the channel NTVin the same year.
Since the beginning of the Ukraine War in 2022, the Kremlin has hardened its tools of repression and censorship, which caused a wave of opponents’ exile to the current Russian regime and the beginning of lawsuits against war or government critics.
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