{"id":25842,"date":"2017-12-05T02:12:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T02:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/russian-lawmakers-mull-tit-for-tat-ban-against-foreign-funded-journalists-at-parliament-sessions\/"},"modified":"2017-12-05T02:12:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T02:12:33","slug":"russian-lawmakers-mull-tit-for-tat-ban-against-foreign-funded-journalists-at-parliament-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/russian-lawmakers-mull-tit-for-tat-ban-against-foreign-funded-journalists-at-parliament-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian lawmakers mull tit-for-tat ban against foreign-funded journalists at parliament sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><time>Published time: 5 Dec, 2017 00:10 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>          A media regulating committee in the Russian lower house, the State Duma, has supported a proposal to adopt tit-for-tat measures against certain foreign-funded journalists working in the country by banning them from attending Duma sessions.       <\/p>\n<p>During a meeting Monday, the committee on control and regulation of media issues agreed to go forward with a draft bill that could see some reporters working for US media in Russia deprived of accreditation with the state body. The lawmakers are set to discuss the bill on Tuesday and vote on it later in the week.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/410042-foreign-media-warning-russian-ministry\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the head of the upper house commission for information policies, Senator Aleksey Pushkov, told reporters that the commission plans to look into the similar proposal in regard to US mass media outlets\u2019 accreditation with the Federation Council. According to the senator, the upper house might by mid-December make a decision to ban accreditation for American media that the Russian Justice Ministry recognizes as foreign agents.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters from nine media outlets, including Voice of America and Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty might be banned from attending the sessions, Pushkov told TASS, explaining that the Justice Ministry has previously sent letters to these outlets informing them of possible registration as foreign agents. The senator added he is <em>\u201cnot aware of any other media that might be included in the list.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Duma committee meeting, Russia&#039;s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova pointed out that the measures considered by the lawmakers are <em>\u201clogical\u201d<\/em> and only come as a response to Washington\u2019s actions against Russian media. Saying that it wasn\u2019t Moscow that began this <em>\u201ctheater of the absurd,\u201d<\/em> Zakharova noted that Russia had been <em>\u201cforced to react.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ministry <em>\u201cinsists that the measures should be only reciprocal, and should not affect all [foreign] media,\u201d<\/em> she added, while saying that should Washington lift its ban on the Russian media, a <em>\u201cmirror response\u201d<\/em> would also follow. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/411697-lavrov-response-rt-credentials\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>READ MORE: Lavrov doesn&#039;t want &#039;race of bans&#039; with US after RT&#039;s Congress accreditation revoked<\/strong><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Ministry would not deprive American journalists of accreditation to work in Russia, the official stressed. <em>\u201cThey can continue their journalistic activity on the territory of the Russian Federation unhampered,\u201d<\/em> she said. Moscow has long abandoned practices of <em>\u201ccensorship and pressure\u201d<\/em> toward any media, Zakharova added, saying that Washington&#039;s recent moves \u2013 which she called<em> \u201csilly and dangerous\u201d<\/em> \u2013 only demonstrate the US&#039;s <em>\u201cweakness.\u201d<\/em><br \/><em>\u201cA terrible precedent of open pressure on the media is being created. Today it\u2019s the Russian media, tomorrow it will be journalists of another state,<\/em>\u201d the spokeswoman warned.<\/p>\n<p>In late November, RT America\u2019s accreditation on Capitol Hill was revoked by the body responsible for accrediting Congressional media correspondents, citing its <em>\u201cforeign agent\u201d<\/em> status. Earlier, the US Justice Department ordered the channel to register as such, having threatened it with legal action. In response, a bill requiring media outlets operating in Russia but funded from abroad to register as <em>\u201cforeign agents\u201d<\/em> was signed into law by President Putin.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/politics\/411934-reciprocal-media-accreditation-ban\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p> [contf] [contfnew]          <\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">RT<\/a><\/h5>\n<p> [contfnewc] [contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 5 Dec, 2017 00:10<br \/>\n A media regulating commi..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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