The vice president of the Russian Security Council, Dimitri Medvedev, has questioned this Friday that the Western media will be able to return to work in Russia due to their “mediocre decisions” in the framework of the war unleashed in Ukraine on 24 February after the invasion order given by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
“The Western media, with their mediocre decisions, have significantly reduced their audience in our country. Now, to return, they will have to demonstrate in practice their independence and good attitude towards Russia and its citizens,” he said in a message on your account on Telegram.
“However, it is not a fact that they will be able to bathe twice in the same water,” warned Medvedev, who currently leads the ruling United Russia party. In addition, he was president between 2008 and 2012 – the stage in which Putin was prime minister – and later prime minister between 2012 and 2020.
Various Western media, including The New York Times, the BBC and the Bloomberg agency, announced in March the end of their activities in Russia in response to the law approved by Putin against “fake news” in relation to the invasion of Ukraine.
After that, Russia’s communications regulatory agency, Roskomnadzor, also limited access to the websites of media such as the British BBC radio television, Germany’s Deutsche Welle and other independent media such as Meduza.
Medvedev has also charged against Western social networks and, although he has praised their work as a communication and information tool, he has criticized that “it has recently turned out that the leaders of these Internet resources, including the Meta universe, live in their own reality and follow only their own subjective standards.
“The taste of the imaginary unlimited power in the digital space is sweet. They built an empire that involves billions of people and manage it outside of state laws and regulations, only through user agreements. If they want, they close the access to any person, community or country,” he argued.
Active anti-Russian stance
In this sense, he has stated that these social networks “help the right candidate to win the ‘democratic’ elections in the EEA”, before adding that, for these companies “and their mentors in Washington”, “Russia is another testing ground” . “Because of his active anti-Russian stance, this training camp was full of falsehoods about our country and its actions in Ukraine,” he said.
The former Russian president has denounced the blocking of Russian channels on YouTube and has stressed that these same companies “do not care about the requirements of Russian legislation.” “We have contacted them more than once to ask them to remove false information or to unblock legal and reliable sources. In response, silence or unintelligible babble,” he lamented.
“Anyone who has critical thinking that is not dulled by Western falsehoods understands that this cannot continue to be possible,” he said, while recalling that “there are not only social networks in the Anglo-Saxon world, but also in Russia and China”. “Our country has the necessary tools and experience for its development. We will continue to support them,” she concluded.
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