Earlier, Times published photos of eight employees of the British Sputnik bureau with a signature with the name of the posts. The material also appeals to Scottish Parliament deputy Alex Cole Hamilton for the British government to take the assets of the agency’s journalists.
According to the press secretary of the Russian embassy, the publication in the Times, as well as the call from Cole Hamilton, "testify to the exertion of pressure on the Russian media through all possible channels."
“We believe that the publication of the personal data of journalists, in the“ best traditions ”of the odious Kiev Peacemaker website, calls for confiscation of media property should also attract the attention of the OSCE,” the embassy said.
Earlier, as reported by RIA Novosti, the chairman of the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko, stated that the publication of these Sputnik UK journalists in the British Times threatens their lives and interferes with their personal lives.