Russia’s liberal radio station Echo of Moscow announced today that its board had decided to disband the station in a move to block one of the few remaining liberal media outlets the Kremlin has tolerated to date.
“The majority of Ekho Moskvy’s board of directors (Moscow Echo) has decided to dismantle Ekho Moskvy’s radio station and website,” its head, Alexei Venediktov, wrote in his Telegram account.
The move came shortly after a request was made by the Attorney General’s Office to block access to the Dojd (Internet TV channel) and the (Moscow) Echo radio station due to its coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Dojd Internet network and the Moscow radio station Echo, along with the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, stood out because they did not follow the Kremlin in covering the Moscow invasion of Ukraine, as did the vast majority.
Russian authorities have banned the media from using information other than that provided by the Kremlin, the military and various ministries, which portrays the invasion of Ukraine as a simple “special operation” limited to the east of the country.
Russia is regularly presented by non-governmental organizations as one of the most restrictive countries in the world in terms of press freedom.
The country is thus ranked 150th out of a total of 180 countries based on the latest Press Freedom Index of Reporters Without Borders.
Several media outlets, including the Dojd channel, have been described by authorities as “foreign agents”.
Echo of Moscow, partly owned by the gas giant Gazprom and built in 1990, has always sought to cultivate its independence and is one of the country’s most respected media outlets.
Until this week it was one of the few in the country where oppositionists could express themselves.
Source: AMPE
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