"Over the last decade, the world has been entangled in the tentacles of Western information, which are pretty much overpowering national media. National media exist in Asia and Africa, but look at what the primary source of information for them is. For national media, the source, unfortunately, is largely information provided by Western news agencies or photographs distributed by Western broadcasters," Zakharova said in her address at the fourth forum of Russian-speaking broadcasters.
Russian media worldwide is currently under severe pressure; journalists are not granted accreditation at events, while Russian media as a whole is being portrayed as "propaganda," the spokeswoman underlined.
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A year later, RT America had to register as a "foreign agent" in the United States at the request of the US Justice Department, leading to the loss of its Congress accreditation.
