Authorities in Moscow vowed Sunday to retaliate after the channels of numerous state media outlets were blocked for EU-based users of the messaging app Telegram.The Telegram channels of RIA Novosti, Rossiya 1, Channel One, NTV, Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta stopped being accessible within the EU earlier on Sunday, according to media reports.Neither Telegram nor European authorities have actually talked about the disruption, which Moscow was quick to call an act of censorship.
The methodical cleansing of all undesirable sources of information from the information space continues, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.Zakharova denounced what she called a consistent project of repression against Russian media in almost all European Union nations, including that these attacks and similar ones against our media will not go unanswered.
We book the right to respond in the same manner, she said.Earlier, the EUbanned Russian state media outlets like RIA Novosti, Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta from being dispersed in the bloc, charging them with sharing propaganda.