The EU foreign policy service called sanctions against RT restrictions against the Kremlin's tool

This is written by Euractiv.

According to Gulner, the "opponents" of the European Union "work extremely effectively, they have a very developed network of connections," which in the West is called the "ecosystem of disinformation."

"We have to create something like that on our part," he said.

At the same time, a European official claims that the blocking of RT is "not censorship, not sanctions against the media, not the suppression of undesirable opinions."

"These sanctions are imposed for a very simple reason: RT is the kremlin's hand, an instrument of the Russian power system that is used to support illegal actions in Ukraine. It's not the media in the sense that RT doesn't meet the criteria we have for the media," Gulner said.

In early March 2022, the European Union banned the broadcasting of the RT television channel and the work of the Sputnik agency in the community. Subsequently, it was reported that the European Union cuts off the broadcasting of the TV channels "Russia 24", "RTR-Planeta" and "TV Center" on its territory as part of the sixth package of sanctions.

In winter, as part of the ninth package of restrictions, the EU imposed sanctions against THE ANO TV-Novosti.

In Russia, such a policy is associated with the complete intolerance of the West to pluralism of opinions.