A judicial liquidation was pronounced on May 4 against the media Sputnik News, banned from the European Union after the beginning of the Russian offensive against Ukraine.
The Sputnik News news agency has entered into a judicial liquidation procedure in France following the ban on Russian state media decided by the European Union after the start of the offensive against Ukraine, the head of the French entity told AFP on Wednesday. The judicial liquidation was pronounced on May 4 and can be extended until 2024, its president Vladimir Morozov told AFP, confirming a report in Le Monde.
The company’s 27 employees in France, whose salaries had been covered by the wage guarantee scheme, were dismissed shortly after the ruling.
The business model of Sputnik News, an online media outlet launched in 2014, relied entirely on a single Kremlin-affiliated Russian client, the Rossia Segodnia organization, which commissioned stories and reports, the company’s court-appointed liquidator Christophe Basse told AFP.
Accused of being instruments of “disinformation” of Moscow, the Russian state media RT and Sputnik have been banned from the European Union after the beginning of the Russian offensive against Ukraine. A ban on television and internet broadcasts went into effect on March 2. Rossia Segodnia terminated its contract in April and Sputnik briefly went into receivership, which was later converted into liquidation.
The company left behind about 500,000 euros in liabilities, including social and tax debts. “There is about half of this amount in Russia,” Basse said, but attempts to recover it have so far been unsuccessful.
RT France still in operation
The news channel RT France continues to broadcast in French and to publish articles on its website, which is still accessible via a virtual private network (VPN), a service that allows you to browse the web while circumventing the blockage.
In March, the head of RT France accused the French bank Société Générale of blocking the bank accounts of some Russian employees in France. The bank had stressed that it did not block “the accounts of its clients on the sole criterion of nationality” but had to carry out checks on some of them because of the sanctions.
in general, Russia is itself a bright informational autocracy, hundreds of broadcast resources and bots with propaganda for the world, and in the interior of the country it’s just censorship of opinion (there is criminal liability for commenting on the Internet) and the Kremlin bots (several thousand people who spam on social networks and arrange regular srach they are paid something like 0.1 cents for each comment).
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A judicial liquidation was pronounced on May 4 against the media Sputnik News, banned from the European Union after the beginning of the Russian offensive against Ukraine.
The Sputnik News news agency has entered into a judicial liquidation procedure in France following the ban on Russian state media decided by the European Union after the start of the offensive against Ukraine, the head of the French entity told AFP on Wednesday. The judicial liquidation was pronounced on May 4 and can be extended until 2024, its president Vladimir Morozov told AFP, confirming a report in Le Monde.
The company’s 27 employees in France, whose salaries had been covered by the wage guarantee scheme, were dismissed shortly after the ruling.
The business model of Sputnik News, an online media outlet launched in 2014, relied entirely on a single Kremlin-affiliated Russian client, the Rossia Segodnia organization, which commissioned stories and reports, the company’s court-appointed liquidator Christophe Basse told AFP.
Accused of being instruments of “disinformation” of Moscow, the Russian state media RT and Sputnik have been banned from the European Union after the beginning of the Russian offensive against Ukraine. A ban on television and internet broadcasts went into effect on March 2. Rossia Segodnia terminated its contract in April and Sputnik briefly went into receivership, which was later converted into liquidation.
The company left behind about 500,000 euros in liabilities, including social and tax debts. “There is about half of this amount in Russia,” Basse said, but attempts to recover it have so far been unsuccessful.
RT France still in operation
The news channel RT France continues to broadcast in French and to publish articles on its website, which is still accessible via a virtual private network (VPN), a service that allows you to browse the web while circumventing the blockage.
In March, the head of RT France accused the French bank Société Générale of blocking the bank accounts of some Russian employees in France. The bank had stressed that it did not block “the accounts of its clients on the sole criterion of nationality” but had to carry out checks on some of them because of the sanctions.
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beautiful
in general, Russia is itself a bright informational autocracy, hundreds of broadcast resources and bots with propaganda for the world, and in the interior of the country it’s just censorship of opinion (there is criminal liability for commenting on the Internet) and the Kremlin bots (several thousand people who spam on social networks and arrange regular srach they are paid something like 0.1 cents for each comment).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2158hiNYTeg
Why did France allow Sputnik to continue there.