“Despite the fact that ritual statements about the need to respect freedom of speech, human rights and other pleasant things are heard in the West regularly, in the practice of Western politics, and after that, in the media, which are not independent, double standards appeared. Now we see a vivid example of this, ”said the deputy.
According to Novikov, in order to form and strengthen the image of the enemy for Europe in the person of Russia, “such unscrupulous methods” are used.
“The policies of the Baltic countries are not very different from the policies of the EU as a whole, although sometimes they even try to run ahead of the locomotive. To consider this episode as something separate is impossible. This is all - the pro-Western and pro-Washington course of the European Union, ”he said.
Earlier, the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court approved the decision of the Lithuanian Commission on Television and Radio Broadcasting to block access to the website of the agency Sputnik Lithuania.
It is noted that this decision is explained by the desire to protect the "copyright on the Internet."