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In the United States, for example, any news favorable to Russia is hounded and boxed in as heresy, under the opaque argument that this presupposes a pro-government stance of President Vladimir Putin.

Initially, the political issue was demonized only in the case of Russia, but now it has reached all areas: economic above all, but also cultural and sports.

The desire to position the Russian media as mere propaganda makers began long before the military operation that Putin ordered to begin in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 to protect the population of the rebellious Donbass region.

Now, in the tenth package of unilateral punitive measures against Russia, the European Union in Europe has banned the transmission of the Russia Today series and the publication of the Sputnik agency in its Arabic-language services.

Observers believe that, in its attempt to close down any possibility of an alternative opinion, the West, far from recognizing the full restrictions on freedom of the press, prefers to denounce the alleged propaganda.

Those who speak in these terms seem to forget the crucial role of accompaniment or progression in accommodating public opinion in the United States and abroad that Hollywood studios play with many of their films.

Nor does anyone want to talk about artillery preparation with fake news carried out by the United States Agency for International Development against Russia and other governments such as Syria, Cuba or Venezuela, for example.

On the other hand, Europe is attacking the Russian media service in Arabic, which seems outwardly far from the conflict in Ukraine, but is close to the consequences of Western sanctions against Moscow for its role in the confrontation.

More than 11,000 punitive measures were applied by countries such as the United States, Canada, Japan and Australia, as well as the European Union, long before the start of the operation in Ukraine.

This included a phased boycott of Russian oil and gas purchases, from which pipeline supplies remain excluded.

Russia at that time exported 27 percent of the crude oil and about 40 percent of the gas consumed by Europe, the latter sent through gas pipelines.

In order to increase the volume of Russian gas supplies to Europe, the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines were built, outside the Soyuz pipeline system that passes through Ukraine.

Moscow is highlighting allegations that the US dynamited both pipelines last year, thus leaving Europe without much of the gas that Russia trades.

This led the Europeans to look for alternative routes, as well as US shale oil companies, with their high prices and constant defaults on gas deliveries.

One of the serious alternatives in the energy field is represented by countries such as Saudi Arabia or Qatar, where, contrary to the hopes of the West, there is a significant improvement in relations with Russia.

What Russia and Sputnik broadcast in Arabic about the Syrian government’s fight against terrorism, or Russia’s good economic relations with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, or Qatar, does not help to consolidate these relations at all, as the West desires.

But it seems that those who organize the investigation of the “preachers” do so only because they feel that their own effects have diminished, in a world where not only the alleged political hegemony of the West, but also the media hegemony, serious problems prevail.

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