Moldova’s government revoked the media licenses of six Russian-language TV channels on Friday
Moldova’s government is sticking to a policy of “eliminating any forms of dissent,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a damning statement on Saturday. Moscow’s anger was provoked by Chisinau’s decision to terminate the media licenses of six Russian-language TV channels.
Chisinau is resorting to “totalitarian censorship methods to clear the national information space of all the last alternative viewpoint centers,” Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, adding that the Moldovan government is “deliberately” depriving millions of Russian-speakers living in Moldova of the last remaining news sources in their preferred language. The decision would also leave “hundreds of journalists” without a job, she said.
Moscow “views this ban as an unprecedented act of political censorship, a violation of the principle of media pluralism and…
