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"News", international media have suspended interviews in Russia.The social media platform Facebook and Twitter are also blocked or restricted by the Russian authorities.
Russia passed a bill on Friday. If anyone was found to deliberately spread the "fake news", it might face the highest penalty of 15 years in imprisonment.
Russian officials have accused the United States and its Western EU friends spread false information, trying to provoke separation among the Russian people.
The Russian National Duma (House of Commons of the Parliament) issued a statement saying that the bill can also be fined or imprisoned by those who have called for sanctions to be imposed on Russia.
After the Russian President Putin signed a bill, many international media including BBC, Bloomberg, CNN (CNN) and Canada Broadcasting Corporation announced the suspension of interviews in Russia.
BBC president David issued a statement saying that Russia obviously regards independent news operation as criminal crimes."This makes us have no choice but to temporarily suspend the work of all BBC journalists and supporters in Russia. We will evaluate the overall impact of the development of this situation." He said that BBC Russian news services will continue to operate abroad.
Russian media received instructions, stipulating that only the official information provided by the official.The country's NovenaGazeta and the commercial news website Thebell announced that it would stop reporting news about Russia's invasion of Ukraine to protect its reporters.
At the same time, Roskomnadzor, a Russian communications supervision agency, also blocked the social media platform bookmark, saying that it "discriminated against" Russian state -owned news agencies.Although Twitter is not blocked, it is limited to some users.
