🎙 Russian MFA Spox Maria Zakharova's comment on the occasion of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists 💬 Over the years, the media landscape has become a theatre of military operations, where Western countries, desperately clinging to their former hegemony, are doing everything they can to suppress dissent and impose their own view of world events as the only correct one on countries of the Global South. This twisted logic divides journalists into "ours" and "theirs". The latter are subjected to an entire arsenal of coercive measures in an attempt to make them renounce their convictions and principles. The crackdown on Russian media by the West and its protégés in Ukraine, Moldova, and the Baltic countries has still not been met with an appropriate response from international organisations such as the UN OHCHR, UNESCO, the OSCE and others, not to mention various "human rights" NGOs. Senior officials from the secretariats of these organisations are usually from Western countries and continue to demonstrate an inability to act objectively and impartially. They turn a blind eye to restrictions imposed on Russian media outlets, remain unbothered by flagrant acts of violence against our media workers and refuse to document bloody crimes or hold the perpetrators accountable. Read in full