“We too will inevitably withdraw the envoy from Russia. The rules are so punitive that nothing can be done”. Thus the director of TG5, Clemente Mimun, announces to Adnkronos the withdrawal of the correspondent of the newspaper in Russia after the approval by the Duma, the parliament of Moscow, of a law that provides for prison for those who disseminate news on the war deemed “false” from the Russian government. A decision that was made yesterday by the BBC and today also by Rai, which suspended journalistic services from Russia. “To work in Russia, journalists must have a permit. I have no correspondents but a correspondent who is still without a permit. Now, however, forced by these new rules, we will send him back”.
“Russia is losing on several fronts – adds the director of Tg5 – because on the ground in Ukraine it is encountering more difficulties than he imagined, on the economic level it has already lost 300 billion euros, and on that of the media Putin, who is not one naive, he knows how important information is and therefore places limitations. I believe that at the end of this war the Tribunal of Human Rights will have a lot to work with and I also believe that not all Russians know what their government is up to. even in Ukraine things are not different for journalists: Ukrainians – he explains – are suspicious because they fear Russian spies, and Russian soldiers don’t go too far with reporters. After the years of Mani Pulite in which notoriety was linked to the amount of minutes that were received from the Prosecutor’s Office, and after the Covid that was told through press conferences and vaccination policy, now – concludes Mimun – with the war the attention is focused on the r account of the envoys, which however becomes more and more difficult, if not impossible, with the Russian limitations “.
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