Roskomnadzor banned the media from calling the special operation in Ukraine a “war”

Roskomnadzor banned the media from calling the special operation in Ukraine a “war”

THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) IS CREATED AND (OR) DISTRIBUTED BY A FOREIGN MASS MEDIA PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT AND (OR) A RUSSIAN LEGAL ENTITY PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT.

Roskomnadzor sent notifications about the need to restrict access to false information to the resources of Ekho Moskvy, InoSMI, Svobodnaya Pressa, Novaya Gazeta, Lenizdat, New Times, as well as the TV channel recognized as foreign agents in the Russian Federation Rain”, publications “Mediazona” and “Krym.Realii”.

“On these resources, under the guise of reliable messages, publicly significant untrue information about the shelling of Ukrainian cities and the death of civilians in Ukraine as a result of the actions of the Russian army, as well as materials in which the ongoing operation is called an attack, invasion, or a declaration of war,” is posted. in a departmental announcement.

Roskomnadzor also launched administrative investigations into the dissemination of unreliable publicly significant information by these media outlets. This offense entails liability under Article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation in the form of an administrative fine in the amount of up to 5 million rubles.

The department stressed that It is the official information sources of the Russian Federation that have reliable and up-to-date information.

Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special operation in the Donbass, the purpose of which President Vladimir Putin called the “demilitarization and denazification” of Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry says it is disabling the country’s military infrastructure with precision-guided strikes.

Read more about today’s events in the chronicle of Rosbalt.

Source: Rosbalt

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