Countries

Restrictions currently in effect

Australia

Suspended RT broadcasts (February 26 2022)

Banned RT broadcasting in Australia with reference to its coverage of Russia’s special operation in Ukraine (March 24 2022)

Radio 3ZZZ dismissed Oleg Bydanov, author and presenter of a Russian-language news panorama (March 30 2022)

Added Rossiya Segodnya Director General Dmitry Kiselev, RT Managing Director Alexey Nikolov, journalist Sergey Brilyov, Gazprom Media CEO Alexander Zharov, TV presenter Mikhail Leontyev, and military correspondents Yevgeny Poddubny, Alexander Kots, and Dmitry Steshin to the sanction lists (May 18 2022)

Sanctions introduced against Channel One CEO Konstantin Ernst and Sputnik news agency (February 24 2023)

Sanctions introduced against the head of VGTRK O.Dobrodeev, T.Kandelaki, A.Malkevich, TV presenters A.Sheinin and A.Pimanov (February 24 2024)

Sanctions introduced against ANO "TV-Novosti" and “Rossiyskaya gazeta” (February 24 2025)

Austria

Introduced a law on a €50,000 fine for reposting RT or Sputnik stories (April 19 2022)

Authorities withdrew the permanent accreditation of TASS reporter I.Popov and informed him about the termination of his registration with an injunction to leave the country within two weeks. No reasons for such actions were given (April 30 2024)

The head of TASS correspondent office A.Davidyan received a notification on non-extension of her resident permit in Austria as well as an injunction to leave the country within two weeks (June 24 2024)

Bulgaria

Restricted broadcasting of TV shows for RT, Sputnik and related projects; Bulsatcom, a major cable TV operator, dropped all Russian TV channels from its services (March 1 2022)

In compliance with EU sanctions the broadcasting of Channel One, Rossiya 1, NTV and REN TV was suspended (February 1 2023)

“Rossiyskaya gazeta” correspondent A.Gazak’s accreditation was canceled and he was also informed about his extradition (October 31 2023)

UK

Launched 15 investigations into RT news programming (February 28 2022)

Officially disconnected RT from UK TV (March 3 2022)

Ofcom, a UK media regulator, launched another 12 investigations against RT (March 3 2022)

Ofcom terminated RT’s broadcasting license (March 18 2022)

Introduced sanctions against Rossiya Segodnya and Editor-in-Chief of Sputnik International Anton Anisimov (March 31 2022)

The Foreign Office declared that social media, internet services and app stores must block RT and Sputnik content (May 4 2022)

Expanded sanctions to VGTRK and a number of Russian journalists for their coverage of events in Ukraine. The blacklist includes Nailya Asker-zade, military correspondents Yevgeny Poddubny, Alexander Kots and Dmitry Steshin, TV presenter Mikhail Leontyev, and St Petersburg TV Director General Alexander Malkevich. The restrictions ban entry to the UK and freeze bank accounts, if any (May 4 2022)

Introduced sanctions against executives of News Front Media Group, including NF Director Yevgeny Glotov and NF co-founder Yury Fedin (July 4 2022)

Blacklisted Yuzhny Front News Agency (July 4 2022)

Blacklisted YF journalists Denis Gafner and Valeria Kalabayeva (July 5 2022)

Ofcom found RT guilty of breaching the principle of impartiality while covering “the conflict in Donbas” (July 18 2022)

Introduced sanctions against the Head of Regnum news agency S.Rudnov and S.Kryvonogykh for being a shareholder in the National Media Group (February 8 2023)

Germany

The federal media regulator fined RT DE €25,000 for continuing its broadcasting (March 5 2022)

In Berlin, there was an attack on a residential building that houses personnel employed by news offices of Russian media in Germany (May 6 2022)

The German government refused residence permits for a correspondent and a cameraman of Channel One (November 22 2024)

Greece

Terminated Sputnik hub operations (May 26 2022)

Foreign Ministry of Greece refused to extend journalist’s accreditation of media group “Rossiya Segodnya” bureau chief correspondent Gennady Melnik (March 2025)

EU (+NATO, the Council of Europe)

On March 1 2022, the EU Council banned the dissemination of any RT and Sputnik content in its territory. The decision was implemented by all EU member countries (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden)

Sanctions were introduced against TASS Director General Sergey Mikhailov, VGTRK Director General Oleg Dobrodeyev, Editor-in-Chief and owner of Moskovsky Komsomolets Pavel Gusev, Editor-in-Chief and Director General of Komsomolskaya Pravda Vladimir Sungorkin, and President of the Krasnaya Zvezda media holding Alexei Pimanov (April 8 2022)

Approved the sixth anti-Russia sanctions package suspending EU broadcasts by three Russian TV channels: Rossiya RTR/RTR Planeta, Rossiya 24/Russia 24, and Mezhdunarodny TV Tsentr (June 3 2022)

The European Parliament approved a resolution urging Serbia’s authorities to introduce restrictions against Russian media (July 6 2022) 

The EU Court of Justice dismissed a suit by RT France on suspending the EU Council’s decision to ban its line broadcasting in EU member countries (July 27 2022)

France’s Arcom watchdog made Eutelsat, Europe’s largest satellite communications operator, switch off NTV-Mir broadcasting (August 3 2022)

American platform Odysee stopped broadcasting the signal of Sputnik France and RT France on the EU territory by the order of French Minister of digital transition and telecommunications Jean-Noël Barrot (October 20 2022)

Council of the European Union terminated the broadcasting license of Russian TV-channels: NTV/NTV-Mir, Rossiya 1, REN-TV and Channel One. Sanctions were also introduced against TV-presenters B.Korchevnikov and M.Kim (December 16 2022)

Approved the tenth anti-Russia sanctions package which included: the executive director of MIA Rossiya Segodnya K.Vyshynskiy, deputy director of Channel One K.Kleymenov, deputy director of National Media Group A.Akopov, chief editor of Rossiya 24 E.Bekasov, Regnum chief editor M.Akhmedova, chief editor M.Zamshev, A.Kotz, Patriot media group, MIA Rossiya Segodnya, «Sputnik Arabic», «RT Arabic» (February 25 2023)

Russian “Federal News Agency” added to the blacklist (April 13 2023)

According to the eleventh anti-Russia sanctions package the broadcasting license of five Russian media sources was suspended: RT Balkan, Oriental Review, Tsargrad, Katehon and New Eastern Outlook. Sanctions were also introduced against: military correspondents S.Pegov, E.Poddubniy, A.Sladkov and M.Zvinchuk; journalists M.Leontyev and V.Sineok; First deputy director of NTV A.Kosterina, First deputy director of VGTRK A.Kondrashov and the head of regional department of VGTRK R.Sabitov (June 23 2023)

RIA “Novosti” reporter was denied accreditation for NATO summit in Vilnius by NATO press office (July 10 2023)

Sanctions introduced against information agency “Inforos” (July 28 2023)

The twelfth anti-Russia sanctions package included two Russian TV-channels: “Spas” and “Tsargrad” as well as TV-presenter A.Shafran (December 18 2023)

EU Council published a decision to ban the broadcasting activity of three Russian media: RIA “Novosti”, “Izvestiya” and “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” (May 17 2024)

“News Media” general director A.Gabrelyanov added to the blacklist as part of the 14th sanctions package (June 24 2024)

“Izvestiya” journalists were denied accreditation for NATO summit (July 1 2024)

All journalists of RIA “Novosti” and Sputnik were denied accreditation for NATO summit (July 9 2024)

RIA “Novosti” correspondent was denied accreditation for the statement Wikileaks founder and journalist Julian Assange at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (October 1 2024)

Approved the fifteenth anti-Russia sanctions package which included deputy general director of Gazprom Media Holding T.Kandelaki and news agency African Initiative (December 16 2024)

The Telegram channels of RIA Novosti, Rossiya 1, Channel One, NTV, Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta were blocked for EU-based users (December 28 2024)

Under the 16th package, the prohibition to broadcast content was extended to 8 Russian media outlets (EADaily, Fondsk, Lenta, NewsFront, RuBaltic, SouthFront, Strategic Culture Foundation and Krasnaya Zvezda)  (February 24 2025)

Italy

UniCredit Bank blocked the current account of the VGTRK news office in connection with sanctions introduced against VGTRK Director General Oleg Dobrodeyev (May 6 2022)

Canada

Banned RT and RT France (March 16 2022)

The July 9 2022 anti-Russia stop list included Russian media representatives and journalists, such as Alexey Pimanov (Krasnaya Zvezda), Andrey Ilyashenko (Inforos News Agency), Armen Gasparyan (Rossiya Segodnya), TV presenter Artyom Sheinin, Dmitry Kulikov (Rossiya Segodnya), Vadimir Sungorkin (Komsomolskaya Pravda), Oleg Dobrodeyev (VGTRK Director General), Sergey Mikhailov (TASS Director General), TV journalist Tigran Keosayan, TV journalist Olga Skabeyeva, Modest Kolerov (Editor-in-Chief of Regnum), TV journalist Anton Krasovsky, TV journalist Arkady Mamontov, Alexey Nikolov (Managing Director of TV-Novosti), Anton Anisimov (Director General of Sputnik International), Pyotr Akopov (observer, Rossiya Segodnya) and TV presenter Yekaterina Andreyeva.

Sanctions were introduced against 15 media outlets: Channel One, Rossiya 1, NTV TV Company, TASS, VGTRK, Gazprom Media, National Media Group, Rossiya 24, Smotrim, Vesti.ru, RT, Sputnik and Regnum. This category also includes the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) and the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor).

Sanctions were introduced against the following media representatives and journalists: P.Gusev (Moskovskiy Komsomolets), N.Asker-zade, M.Sittel, A.Kuzichev, O.Loseva, M.Leontyev, A.Dobrov, A.Kazakov, I.Losik, A.Kondrashov (VGTRK), K.Kleymenov (Pervy Kanal), A.Kots, A.Gamov, T.Kandelaki, V.Kornilov, T.Sergeytsev, V.Nikiforova, A.Mamakova and D.Gubernyev (October 17 2022)

Sanctions were introduced which included: MIA Rossiya Segodnya, RIA Novosti, Inforos and South Front news agencies; S.Brilyov, E.Poddybniy, D.Gornostayev, T.Mitkova, A.Kolesnikov, A.Norkin, A.Bystrickiy, V.Kalabayeva and A.Chuguleva (3 February 2023)

Head of news agency “News Front” K.Knyrik and journalist Y.Podolyaka were added to the stop list (June 10 2023)

Sanctions introduced against media holding “Readovka” and its chief editor A.Kostylev (July 20 2023)

Sanctions introduced against “Komsomolskaya pravda” and “Vzglyad” (September 22 2023)

*Sanctions introduced against 6 media in Moldova including “First Channel in Moldova”, “RTR Moldova” and “NTV Moldova” which rebroadcasted programs of similar Russian channels (October 17 2023)

Sanctions introduced against REN TV, “Parlamentskaya gazeta” and “Izvesia” (November 10 2023)

“News Media” general director A.Gabrelyanov, A.Malkevich, “Rossiyskaya gazeta” as well as “Sankt-Peterburg”, “Tavriya” and “Mariupol-24” TV-channels added to the extended sanctions list (June 13 2024)

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce blocked the personal accounts of the head of the TASS representative office D.Studnev (November 18 2024)

Cyprus

“Rossiyskaya gazeta” reporter A.Gasyuk was beaten up, detained and later deported despite the valid journalist accreditation (October 5 2023)

Costa Rica

A series of state and private telecommunications companies stopped the retransmission of RT (March 3 2022)

Latvia

The broadcasting of the following television channels was banned: Rossiya RTR for 5 years, Rossiya 24 for 4 years, TV Tsentr for 3 years (February 24 2022)

Permit for retransmitting the television channels PBK Estonia and PBK Lithuania withdrawn (February 25 2022)

Access banned to the lenta.ru, ria.ru, vz.ru websites (February 25 2022)

The retransmission of the following channels stopped: RBC Estonia, MirTV, TNT, Paytnitsa International, TNT4 International, CTC Baltics, RTVI, THT Music, KHL, Avto Plus, Nauka, Perets!, RBC, 1+2, Moya Planeta, Domashny (February 26 2022)

The retransmission of the following television channels banned: Mir 24 for five years, RTVI for one year (February 28 2022)

The broadcasting of the Baltnews television channel blocked (March 3 2022)

The retransmission of 18 television channels of the Gazprom Media holding banned (March 7 2022)

The IMHOclub.lv interactive portal blocked (March 8 2022)

Watching prohibited content, including Russian channels, becomes an administrative offence and is punished by a fine of up to €700 (March 10 2022)

The retransmission of the following Russian television channels banned: NTV Serial, NTV Stil, NTV Pravo (March 14 2022)

The broadcasting of the other 80 television channels registered in Russia stopped (June 6 2022)

State Security Service arrested the chief-editor of Sputnik Lithuania M.Kasem (January 5 2023)

Journalists Y.Vityazeva and M.Shakhnazarov as well as TV-presenters V.Kudryavtseva, Y.Baranovskaya and R.Ostashko added to the blacklist (March 17 2023)

Access banned to a range of Russian web-sites: mk-pskov.ru, life.ru, pnp.ru, council.gov.ru and others (March 18 2024)

Access banned to two more Russian web-sites: mirtesen.ru и 5vlast.com (April 10 2024)

Access banned to Russian web-sites: vsluh.ru, trk7.ru, informpskov.ru, russiancouncil.ru, tatar-inform.ru, globalaffairs.ru, wyffest.com, duma.gov.ru, aftershock.news (March 17 2025)

Lithuania

The retransmission of all Russian television channels stopped (February 27 2022)

The broadcasting of the RBC and Mir-24 television channels banned for 5 years (February 28 2022)

Over 50 websites streaming Russian television series blocked (March 9 2022)

The retransmission of 32 Gazprom Media television programmes suspended (April 20 2022)

Seimas adopted the amendments to the law on Provision of Information to the Public as a result of which Russian and Belarusian radio and TV-channels were blocked for 2 years. The broadcasting and dissemination on the Internet of any programs of companies directly or indirectly controlled, managed and/or funded by Russia and Belarus will be banned up to 16 October 2024 (22 September 2022)

Vilnius District Administrative Court dismissed the complaint of VGTRK on the ban of rebroadcasting and dissemination of the programs of Planeta RTR and Rossiya 24 on the Internet (22 September 2022)

Internet-providers were obliged to delete access to IP-addresses of the following TV-channels: Rossiya 1, Rossiya 24, RTR Planeta, NTV and Channel One (March 9 2023)

Luxembourg

The broadcasting of RT and Sputnik stopped (February 28 2022)

Moldova

The Sputnik Moldova’s website (February 26 2022) and radio broadcasting (March 7 2022) banned

President Maia Sandu signed a law banning the retransmission of Russian news and analytical programmes, as well as war films from Russia (June 19 2022)

The Information and Security Service blocked access to the Russian Svobodnaya Pressa website (August 1 2022)

The Audiovisual Council fined four Russian-language channels, NTV Moldova, Ekskluziv TV, Pervy v Moldove and Akchent TV for a “departure” from the rules (August 5 2022)

The authorities revoked the license of 6 Russian-speaking TV-channels: Orhei TV, NV6, NTV Moldova, Accent TV, RTR Moldova and Primul in Moldova (December 17 2022)

Internet portals “EADaily” and “Bloknot” got blocked (January 19 2023)

Access to popular Russian analytical portal «Rubaltic.ru» was banned (February 6 2023)

5 web-sites related to Sputnik information agency («sputniknews.com», «md.sputniknews.com», «ro.sputniknews.com», «sputniknews.ru» и «md.sputniknews.ru») were blocked (March 22 2023)

Internet portals “politnavigator.net”, “politnavigator.news” и “news-front.info” were blocked (April 20 2023)

Federal authorities fined two Gagauzia channels (“Oguzatlink” and “Ilk Halk Televizionu”) for rebroadcasting Russian analytical TV-programs (July 6 2023)

The migration forces broke into the house of the head of the Moldova division of “Sputnik”, detained and deported him for allegedly interfering into the domestic policy of Moldova (September 13 2023)

Access to 22 Russian-language news portals including 1tv.ru, ntv.ru, rt.com, vesti.ru was blocked (October 24 2023)

Access to 31 Russian media websites including TASS, Sputnik, “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, “Interfax” was blocked (October 30 2023)

The Information and Security Service blocked access to websites of RIA “Novosti”, RIA “Novosti Crimea”, “Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, “TV and Radio Company Crimea”, “Krymskaya Gazeta”, and the “State Council of the Republic of Crimea” (September 26 2024)

RIA “Novosti” journalist was denied accreditation for covering the upcoming presidential elections (October 1 2024)

Joined the US sanctions against MIA “Rossiya Segodnya” and ANO "TV-Novosti" (November 22 2024)

The Telegram channel of Sputnik Moldova blocked (February 21 2025)

The Netherlands

Internet service providers began blocking the websites of Russian media (March 8 2022)

New Zealand

Sanctions imposed against President of the Krasnaya Zvezda media holding Alexey Pimanov, co-founder of the News Front Crimean news agency Mikhail Sinelin, and VGTRK Director General Oleg Dobrodeyev (May 11 2022) 

Sanctions imposed against Inforos and News Front news agencies (October 31 2022)

Sanctions imposed against the Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Maxut Shadaev and 23 Russian media representatives, including Channel One CEO Konstantin Ernst and key workers of Inforos and South Front news agencies as well as web-portal Strategic culture fund (December 12 2022)

Poland

The following TV channels banned: RT, RT Documentary, RTR Planeta, Soyuz TV and Rossiya 24 (February 25 2022)

RIA “Novosti” journalist was denied accreditation for OSCE Ministerial Council which took place in Lodz (November 29 2022)

Romania

All Romanian operators blocked the Sputnik agency’s websites and RT broadcasting (February 28 2022)

RT journalist Chay Bowes who flew to Romania to cover the presidential election was detained at the airport in Bucharest shortly after landing and deported (May 1, 2025)

North Macedonia

Retransmission of RT banned (March 18 2022)

Slovakia

The Law on Certain Measures Related to the Situation in Ukraine was fast-tracked to passage. Under the pretext of counteracting disinformation, it allows blocking any online resources by decision of the National Security Administration (March 6 2022)

The Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission sent a letter to the association of hotels and restaurants demanding they promptly inform members of the need to adhere to a EU Council resolution that includes a ban on the broadcasting of “sanctioned” Russian television channels (August 24 2022)

US

Activities of the RT America television channel suspended (March 4 2022)

Sanctions imposed on the Russian television channels Rossiya 1, Channel One and NTV. American companies are prohibited from providing them with equipment, software or advertising. American individuals and legal entities were instructed to terminate their relationships with Russian channels before June 7 (May 8 2022)

Dollar payments for RT stringers in the US stopped working due to banks’ concern about secondary sanctions (May 2022)

Sanctions imposed on the Stop-Imperialism information agency (July 29 2022)

Press services of government bodies do not allow their questions at news conference

Russian journalists receive 1-year visas (other media outlets receive 3-year visas)

Local services draw out the documentation process for driver’s licenses, insurance and other documents

A branch of the European radio and broadcasting network Eurovision terminated rental agreements with VGTRK prematurely

Local banks stopped servicing the news offices of VGTRK and Channel One due to the sanctions

Special services visit the channels on a regular basis

The Congress adopted a bill on new sanctions against 200 Russians, including the editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya and RT M.Simonyan and also VGTRK TV-host V.Solovyev (21 September 2022)

TV-presenter O.Skabeeva added to the sanctions list (February 24 2023)

Sanctions introduced against MIA “Rossiya Segodnya” (RIA Novosti and Sputnik), TV-Novosti (RT and Ruptly). M.Simonyan, E.Brodskaya, A.Anisimov, A.Kiyashko, K.Kalashnikov, E.Afanasyeva, A.Garashenko, A.Ermoshkina and A.Nezhentsev were also added to the sanctions list (September 4 2024)

Blocking financial sanctions were imposed on the MIA “Rossiya Segodnya” and ANO "TV-Novosti", which freeze the assets in the US dollar jurisdiction. General Director of MIA “Rossiya Segodnya” D. Kiselev was added to the US sanctions list (September 13 2024).

NHL declines accreditation to TASS journalists who ask to cover Washington Capitals' games (April 3 2025)

Uruguay

RT excluded from Vera TV streaming service (March 2 2022)

Local banks stopped servicing the news office of the MIA “Rossiya Segodnya”

Finland

Broadcast of RT stopped (February 25 2022)

Journalists of sports-related site “Чемпионат.com” were denied accreditation for cross-country skiing World Cup in Ruka (November 24 2022)

France

Sputnik accounts on French social media sites suspended (March 1 2022)

Personal payroll accounts of RT France employees blocked (March 30 2022)

Russian television channels Rossiya RTR/RTR Planeta, Rossiya 24/Russia 24 and Mezhdunarodny TV Tsentr closed prematurely and in violation of EU procedure (June 7 2022)

At the request of “Reporters without borders” and under the pressure of French Council of State Arcom media regulator made Eutelsat stop the broadcasting of 3 Russian TV-channels: Channel One, Rossiya 1 and NTV (December 14 2022)

RT France bank account was blocked (January 19 2023)

The chief editor of federal news portal Russia News E.Nadolskaya was denied access in a rude manner to the press-conference of French president E.Macron during G20 in New-Delhi (September 10 2023)

“TASS” French-speaking Telegram channel blocked on the territory of France (February 16 2024)

The Olympic Games organizing committee denied accreditation to a number of Russian journalists of “RIA Novosti Sport” and “Izvestiya” (July 22 2024)

The Olympic Games organizing committee removed accreditations of TASS journalist issued earlier (July 28 2024)

The Paralympic Games organizing committee denied accreditation to 4 TASS journalists (August 20 2024)

The Paralympic Games organizing committee denied accreditation to RIA “Novosti” journalist (August 22 2024)

“Izvestiya” and Komsomolskaya Pravda journalists were refused visas to visit France (February 7 2025)

French media regulator Arcom ordered Eutelsat to stop broadcasting Russian channels STS and Channel 5 (March 21 2025)

Switzerland

Channel One CEO Konstantin Ernst added to the list of sanctioned individuals and legal entities, which includes a ban on entering the country, including by transit, and an asset freeze (March 16 2022)

Joined the tenth anti-Russia sanctions package with exclusions concerning MIA “Rossiya segodnya” (sanctions around media agency include only ban on advertisements) (March 29 2023)

Joined the eleventh anti-Russia sanctions package (June 28 2023)

A ban on advertising of RIA “Novosti”, “Izvestiya” and “Rossiyskaya gazeta” was introduced as a follow-up to the 14th EU sanctions package (July 9 2024)

Switzerland joined the EU's sixteenth package of sanctions against Russia, which includes Eurasia Daily, News Front, SouthFront, RuBaltic, Lenta.ru, Zvezda TV, Fondsk and the Strategic Culture Foundation (April 22, 2025)

Estonia

Broadcasting of the channels RTR Planeta, NTV Mir and Rossiya 24 suspended for one year (February 25 2022)

Due to the systematic obstruction of the Sputnik Media information portal by various agencies and threats to its journalists, the media outlet suspended operations (March 8 2022)

The Telia Eesti mobile operator voluntarily suspended broadcasting of the Russian RBC channel (March 8 2022)

Access to the Russian news websites ntv.ru, ren.tv, 5-tv.ru, 78.ru, 1tv.com, lenta.ru, tass.ru blocked (March 15 2022)

Sputnik Lithuania editorial director Marat Kasem and Baltnews editor-in-chief Andrei Starikov banned from entering the country for the next five years (July 11 and 12 2022)

Izvestia employees Ksenia Soldatova and Dmitry Timofeyev were temporarily detained and had their visas cancelled, were blacklisted and banned from entering the EU for the next three years (August 12 2022)

The authorities revoked the residency permit and banned the chief editor of «Baltija.eu» portal A.Kornilov from entering the Schengen area for five years (December 7 2022)

Access to 53 domains allowing to watch Russian TV-channels was blocked (April 5 2023)

Security forces arrested journalist S.Burtseva who wrote articles and took photos for a Russian-speaking web-source Baltnews.com (March 27 2024)

Estonian prosecutor’s office accused journalist S.Burtseva who worked with some Russian media of violating the EU sanctions regime and treason (August 6 2024)

South Africa

The Multichoice satellite television company that operates in Africa, stopped retransmission of RT (March 3 2022)

Japan

The list of anti-Russia sanctions now includes the news agencies Yuzhny Front, News Front and Inforos (July 5 2022)

Rossiya Segodnya and RT editor-in-chief M.Simonyan was added to the sanctions list (7 October 2022)

Japanese Foreign ministry introduced restrictive measures against A.Malkevich (January 27 2023)

X

(formerly Twitter)

Access limited to Russian media associated with the state (February 28 2022)

Accounts of Sputnik employees marked as “Russia state-affiliated media” (March 1 2022)

RT account features limited for 12 hours for exposing fake news about the Mariupol maternity hospital (March 11 2022)

Post by the Russian Embassy in the United Kingdom deleted for containing information that the Mariupol maternity hospital attacked on March 9 was used as a base of the Azov battalion (March 10 2022)

New restrictions announced on accounts affiliated with Russian state bodies (April 5 2022)

RIA Novosti account blocked in the United Kingdom and the EU (August 4 2022)

Instagram

Posts with links to Russian state-affiliated media marked and demoted (March 8 2022)

YouTube

Sputnik Russian-language channel blocked in Ukraine (February 28 2022)

Television channels NTV and Rossiya 24 blocked in Ukraine (February 28 2022)

Channels affiliated with RT and Sputnik blocked in Europe (March 1 2022)

NTV channels blocked in over 70 countries (March 2 2022)

All Russian channels associated with the state blocked all over the world (March 11 2022)

Ruptly channel blocked (March 11 2022)

Channels of the State Fund of Television and Radio Programmes – Soviet Television: Gosteleradiofond and Soviet Radio: Gosteleradiofond – blocked (March 13 2022)

Account of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Spas television channel blocked (March 16 2022)

Channels of the Avrora news agency – Radio Avrora and Radio Yunost – blocked (March 21 2022)

Account of the Duma TV television channel of the State Duma blocked (April 9 2022)

Rossiya.Kuban channel blocked (April 16 2022)

Channel of VGTRK’s affiliate, the Bashkortostan state television and radio broadcasting company, blocked. Later on, the channels of the regional branches were blocked in Krasnodar, Kemerovo, Ufa, Novosibirsk, Grozny, Blagoveshchensk and Irkutsk (April 16 2022)

Channels Vesti Altaya and Yamal state television and radio broadcasting company blocked (April 29 2022)

Broadcasting of Radonezh radio blocked (May 5 2022)

Account of the LenTV24 television channel blocked for airing events to mark Victory Day (May 12 2022)

Page of the Red Square company, which makes programmes for Channel One and other Russian channels, blocked (June 19 2022)

By request of the Ukrainian Security Service, almost 500 allegedly pro-Russian channels with an audience of over 15 million, were blocked (June 25 2022)

Journalist Tigran Keosayan’s account blocked with no explanation (July 11 2022)

Blogger Dmitry Puchkov’s account was terminated for violations of “YouTube's policy prohibiting hate speech” (August 4 2022)

The Federation Council account blocked (October 18 2022)

RT Balkan account blocked (December 6 2022)

“Komsomolskaya Pravda” radio account blocked (May 16 2023)

“Ura.ru” agency account blocked (May 27 2023)

The newspaper Vzglyad can no longer post any new videos on its channel (August 28 2023)

“Krim 24” TV-channel’s account was banned from live broadcasting for a week for “violating the community principles” (November 22 2023)

“Besogon TV” account blocked (January 18 2024)

Additional account of “Soyuznoe Veche” blocked (January 23 2024)

Accounts of around 40 regional divisions of VGTRK blocked (February 6 2024)

AfterShock.News account blocked as well as the personal channel of its editor S.Brekotin (April 10 2024)

A range of Russian accounts blocked including ones of “Telega ONLINE” (April 29 2024)

The official account of “Krim 24” once again blocked for allegedly “violating the rules of the platform” (May 2 2024)

«Argumenty I Fakty» channel was blocked (January 19 2025)

Meta (Facebook)

Official accounts of four Russian media restricted, the Zvezda television channel, the RIA Novosti information agency, and the online platforms Lenta.ru and Gazeta.ru (February 24 2022)

Advertising by Russian media affiliated with the state banned (February 27 2022)

Access limited to the accounts of the RT television channel and Sputnik news agency in the EU (February 28 2022)

Post by the Russian Embassy in the United Kingdom deleted for containing information that the Mariupol maternity hospital attacked on March 9 was used as a base of the Azov battalion (March 10 2022)

Users in “certain countries” were allowed to urge violence against Russian nationals (March 11 2022)

Exceptions that allowed Ukrainians to call for violence against Russians were extended. Users were also allowed to make dehumanising statements about Russian military personnel (April 11 2022)

Accounts of RT and MIA “Rossiya Segodnya” blocked (September 17 2024)

Google

Russian media publications were demoted and lost from 90 percent to 95 percent of their traffic. Opposition Russian media are treated preferentially (March 13 2022)

Google Play deleted all apps of the NTV television channel (May 27 2022)

Google removed 201 Russian websites from its search service that were placed on the EU sanctions list.

TikTok

Accounts of RT and Sputnik blocked in the EU (March 1 2022)

RT DE account blocked, all videos and followers deleted. The network said that the account was allegedly violating the community policy (May 31 2022) – restored on June 1 2022

Account of Sputnik Kyrgyzstan deleted with no explanation (June 1 2022) – restored on the same day by request of Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media

AppStore

All apps of the NTV television channel removed (May 27 2022)

VKontakte, VK Music, VK Clips, VK Messenger, VK Play, VK Admin and Mail.ru apps were removed (26 September 2022)

Spotify

Content of state-affiliated media hidden (February 28 2022)