(Politics) Venezuelan government repudiates blockade of RT and Sputnik media in the EU

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The Minister of Communication and Information, Freddy Ñáñez, rejected the blockade of the European Union (EU) against the Russian media Sputnik and Russia Today (RT), a measure that he described as "predictable" given the "totalitarian regime" of the European bloc.

“Without a doubt it is a sign of arrogance and desperation at the same time. The truth is that this measure, typical of a totalitarian regime, was predictable," said Ñáñez in an interview with Sputnik.

In his opinion, the censorship that the EU "has been imposing on Russia in general, and on the conflict in Ukraine in particular, is not a new thing", but - he said - it increases in times of crisis.

“It just intensifies at these critical moments when media (strategy) plays a determining role: that of (influencing) the perception of reality,” he added.

This same Monday, the European Commission (EC) indicated that RT and Sputnik are not "media", but part of "Russia's war machine", which justifies its veto.

“They propagate the Kremlin vision, basically. And in that context, we are not taking action against the media, but against propaganda channels, that is the difference," said the EC's chief spokesman, Eric Mamer.

Náñez recalled that in 2014, when the coup d'état took place in Ukraine, a campaign of stigmatization began against Russia and its president Vladimir Putin, in order to "divert attention from the crimes against humanity that the Ukrainian troops committed in the Donbas region in the east of the country.

"They go from the stigmatization campaign to the cancellation of two information channels that they cannot control," he asserted, while stressing that in eight years they created "the subjective conditions" for this new phase of "mani[CENSORED]tion and misrepresentation" of the paper. of Russia in the face of NATO provocations.

The EU, he said, does not realize something, and that is that "today the dominant model of cultural and informative consumption is the social networks, where we are all content producers."

“And no matter how hard they try to mani[CENSORED]te the algorithms, it will be very difficult for the true facts not to come to light,” he said.
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