“Sanctions are no longer sanctions, but a full-scale war of annihilation.

This is not about our military defeat, as some people think.

We are talking about removing our state from the political map of the world,” the parliamentarian believes.

According to him, in this situation it is impossible "to do without an attack on the media."

Earlier, the EU Council initiated the process of suspension of broadcasting licenses for Russian TV channels NTV, REN TV, Rossiya 1 and Channel One.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called the EU's ban on the broadcasting of four Russian media outlets authoritarian measures.