Russia has blocked online access to several dozen major European news outlets, in what the Russian foreign ministry said was a response to EU measures introduced last month against three Russian state media outlets.
The foreign ministry published a list of 81 European news outlets whose websites would no longer be freely accessible from inside Russia, including Politico, Germany’s Der Spiegel, Spain’s El País, The Irish Times, Italy’s La Repubblica, and France’s Le Monde.
The EU Council last month suspended the broadcasting activities of four Russian state media outlets, saying they “spread and support the Russian propaganda and war of aggression against Ukraine”. The Russian foreign ministry on Tuesday cited three: the Ria state news agency, and the Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspapers.
