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The editor of BBC News Russian explains the impact of being labelled “foreign agents”
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The editor of BBC News Russian explains the impact of being labelled “foreign agents”
www.bbc.comThe BBC strongly rejects the decision by the Russian authorities to designate Ilya Abishev and Elizaveta Fokht as 'foreign agents'. BBC News Russian journalists have been singled out, following earlier designations of Ilya Barabanov, Anastasia Lotareva, Andrey Kozenko, and Olga Ivshina. BBC News Global Director and Deputy CEO, Jonathan Munro, says: 'It has now become a routine exercise for the Russian authorities to add BBC News Russian journalists to their list of 'foreign agents'.
www.bbc.co.ukFor half a century, BBC Russian had to fend off jammers. Now its website is blocked, but millions still read it.
www.bbc.comGlobal news media said they were suspending reporting in Russia to protect their journalists after a new law that threatened jail terms of up to 15 years for spreading "fake news".
www.reuters.com#LeaveRussia: BBC is Temporarily Pausing Operations in Russia
leave-russia.orgRussia's media regulator is said to have blocked Western news sources such as the BBC and German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
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