The French arm of the Russian state-owned RT tv community stated on Saturday it was shutting down after authorities used European Union sanctions to freeze its financial institution accounts.
Late final February, shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, the European Union stated it could ban Russia Today on the grounds it had been spreading disinformation in regards to the conflict. RT (Russia Today) France appealed the ban however misplaced.
Xenia Fedorova, the top of RT France, tweeted that French authorities had cited a ninth EU bundle of sanctions agreed final December.
“The funds of RT France are frozen at the request of the general directorate of the Treasury … our channel can no longer continue its activity,” she stated.
In March, the European Union’s Court of Justice on Wednesday rejected a RT France bid for a short lived reprieve.
In a separate assertion, RT France stated 133 workers’ jobs have been in danger and referred to as itself “a breath of fresh air” that had coated the conflict in a balanced manner.
It accused the French authorities of censorship and stated RT France had by no means been condemned or sanctioned for any cause.
