The renewed attack on Russian media is from the same playbook as the one employed by the Third Reich, Maria Zakharova has said
The latest attack on Russian media is part of a broader, deeply Russophobic, and supremacist campaign against the country, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said, drawing parallels between the present-day US and Nazi Germany.
The spokeswoman made the remarks on Saturday while hosted by Russian broadcaster TVC. The discussion primarily revolved around the announcement made by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken the previous day of new sanctions targeting Russian media outlets, including RT. He accused the network of being “engaged in covert influence activities… and functioning as a de facto arm of [Russian] intelligence.”
RT has been trying to somehow undermine democracy in the US and elsewhere, and erode global support for Ukraine, Blinken claimed.
The new measures are an open declaration of an…