“They, the Poles, themselves will not broadcast a picture that presents them in an unfavorable light.

In a situation where you do not let women and children in, you use water cannons and tear gas against them ... the picture is ugly, ”he said.

According to him, before these events, the Polish, German, French viewers were told for a long time that people cannot be dispersed with water cannons.

“Their media, it turns out, worked against them.

And all the inertia of the Western machine.

Therefore, we are introducing a state of emergency, we are breaking through the border, we are not letting anyone in, ”Starikov pointed out.

On November 15, it became known that the RT France film crew was detained at the Polish-Belarusian border. 

Later, a police spokesman for the Podlaskie Voivodeship of Poland said that the correspondent and operator of RT France had been taken to the court in the Polish city of Sokolka.

They were subsequently sentenced to a fine.

RT France correspondent David Kalifa told the details of their detention with the operator Jordi Demory on the Polish-Belarusian border.

For nine hours, the journalists were not handcuffed or given food.

On November 15, the head of RT France, Ksenia Fedorova, announced that the journalists of the TV channel would only be able to return their passports after paying a fine for violating the so-called special zone on the border with Belarus after 48 hours, since before that they were forbidden to appear there.

The Secretary General of the European Federation of Journalists Ricardo Guterres said that the detention of the RT France film crew on the Polish-Belarusian border is an act of censorship.