Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
🎤📰📹 September 8 marks International #JournalistsSolidarityDay. Today, the world commemorates journalists and media specialists who lost their lives in the line of duty. Words of support are also being offered to those who continue to be attacked and repressed for their work as journalists.
Unfortunately, we are marking this date – intended to raise global awareness of the difficult and sometimes dangerous conditions in which journalists have to work and to remind of the importance of mutual support and unity of media professionals – amid a dismal situation with the protection of media rights and freedom of expression.
☝️ Russian media and journalists have long been targets of systematic harassment in the countries of the collective West, but they have come under truly unprecedented pressure in recent months.
❗️ There has been no appropriate reaction from relevant international organisations to the policy of those “advanced democracies’” to cleanse the information landscape from Russian broadcasters and create unbearable conditions for our correspondents; in fact, they prefer to turn a blind eye to these gross violations of media rights and outright censorship.
It is regrettable that UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the OSCE and other international organisations prefer to ignore the situation instead of taking effective measures to ensure the safety of journalists.
👉 We recommend checking out this list of politically motivated repressions against Russian media, which is far from complete, on the Russian Foreign Ministry website
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In spite of everything, on this day we would like to congratulate all correspondents, editors, photographers and other media workers who are faithful to the ideals of journalistic solidarity and who are always ready to help their colleagues, even if their opinions differ.
For our part, we will continue to defend the rights of our journalists and ensure that those who have illegally usurped the power to set rules and punish dissenters are held accountable.
Unfortunately, we are marking this date – intended to raise global awareness of the difficult and sometimes dangerous conditions in which journalists have to work and to remind of the importance of mutual support and unity of media professionals – amid a dismal situation with the protection of media rights and freedom of expression.
☝️ Russian media and journalists have long been targets of systematic harassment in the countries of the collective West, but they have come under truly unprecedented pressure in recent months.
❗️ There has been no appropriate reaction from relevant international organisations to the policy of those “advanced democracies’” to cleanse the information landscape from Russian broadcasters and create unbearable conditions for our correspondents; in fact, they prefer to turn a blind eye to these gross violations of media rights and outright censorship.
It is regrettable that UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the OSCE and other international organisations prefer to ignore the situation instead of taking effective measures to ensure the safety of journalists.
👉 We recommend checking out this list of politically motivated repressions against Russian media, which is far from complete, on the Russian Foreign Ministry website
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In spite of everything, on this day we would like to congratulate all correspondents, editors, photographers and other media workers who are faithful to the ideals of journalistic solidarity and who are always ready to help their colleagues, even if their opinions differ.
For our part, we will continue to defend the rights of our journalists and ensure that those who have illegally usurped the power to set rules and punish dissenters are held accountable.