CNN and Bloomberg will temporarily interrupt their broadcast in Russia

The CNN news channel and the Bloomberg agency will temporarily interrupt their broadcast in Russia, after the approval of a new law in Russia that provides for penalties of up to 15 years in prison for disseminating “false information”.

CNN journalist Oliver Darcy said on his Twitter account: “A CNN spokesperson has said that the network will ‘stop broadcasting in Russia while we continue to assess the situation and our next steps'”, although he did not offer more details.

Also, in a statement, Bloomberg justified this measure by the new law signed this Friday by Russian President Vladimir Putin, “which criminalizes independent information in the country.”

“It is with a heavy heart that we have decided to temporarily suspend our intelligence gathering inside Russia,” Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait was quoted as saying.

CNN and Bloomberg thus join other media such as the British public broadcaster BBC, which today announced the temporary suspension of all its journalists’ work in Russia, in response to the new law that in their opinion criminalizes “independent journalism.”

The approval of this rule, which provides for prison sentences of up to 15 years for disseminating “false information”, has led the director general of the BBC, Tim Davie, to paralyze the work of his employees in Russia until he has analyzed in depth ” all implications” of that legislation.

“The safety of our workers is paramount and we are not prepared to expose them to the risk of criminal prosecution simply for doing their jobs,” Davie said in a note released by the chain.