LONDON, March 31 (Reuters) – Russia’s state-funded RT television channel said on Thursday that British sanctions on Russian state media organisations showed the imminent end of media freedom and the blinkered nature of officials who thought anything Russian was wrong.
Britain on Thursday announced sanctions on 14 more Russian entities and people, including on state media organisations behind RT and Sputnik and some of their senior figures, saying it was targetting those who push out President Vladimir Putin’s “fake news and narratives”.
“With this action the UK government has sounded the death knell for media freedom in Britain,” Anna Belkina, RT’s deputy editor in chief, told Reuters. (Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Kate Holton)
