RIA Novosti: Kremlin: We will not hinder Ukrainian media despite “uncivilized” Kiev behaviour

(RIA Novosti – Moscow, April 7, 2015)

Moscow has no intention of hindering the work of Ukrainian media outlets in response to Kiev’s actions against Russian journalists, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitriy Peskov has said.

“Responding in an uncivilized manner to uncivilized behaviour is not something we are in the habit of doing in Moscow. You know that foreign media work in Moscow without restrictions, according to the law on mass media, they have the same rights as Russian media outlets; that is, the rights of foreign media outlets is guaranteed by our legislation,” Peskov told journalists.

“You know that representatives of the Ukrainian media also work here, they work freely, and I hope they will continue to work here as long as the media are interested in what is happening in our country,” he added.

Commenting on reports that the Ukrainian authorities had refused to allow the deputy director-general of TASS news agency to enter the country, Peskov said that Moscow regrets this and believes it to be “inconsistent with common sense”.

“This once again underlines Ukraine’s absolutely uncivilized approach to everything to do with the media and information, the provision of information about what is going on in Ukraine itself, as well as what is going on in the world, for Ukrainian citizens. And, of course, this is one more attempt to block off Ukraine’s population from truthful information,” Peskov said.

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