Bloomberg News announces it is suspending the work of its journalists in Russia and CNN says it will stop broadcasting in the country.
The moves by Bloomberg and CNN come after Russian lawmakers passed legislation that criminalizes independent reporting.
“We have with great regret decided to temporarily suspend our news gathering inside Russia,” Bloomberg quotes the news agency’s editor-in-chief John Micklethwait as saying.
“The change to the criminal code, which seems designed to turn any independent reporter into a criminal purely by association, makes it impossible to continue any semblance of normal journalism inside the country,” Micklethwait says.
CNN says the 24-hour US cable television news network “will stop broadcasting in Russia while we continue to evaluate the situation and our next steps moving forward.”
The moves came Russian lawmakers threatened to impose jail terms for publishing “fake news” about the Russian army, part of an effort to stifle dissent over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
CNN reporting on the invasion of Ukraine, March 4, 2022 (screenshot)
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