Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov said that the US's accusations against Russian media and 'sanctions imposed' on the Russian broadcaster RT were bordering 'madness', during a press briefing in Moscow on Monday.
"It would be funny if it weren't so sad. The allegations made by these high-ranking employees are bordering on a kind of madness. We believe that attacks on the media, on journalists, on media managers are unacceptable. This is attacking the media, attacking journalists, attacking media executives," he said.
Peskov also claimed that such actions by the US authorities were trying to 'suppress Russia' and 'alternative views'.
These statements come after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the US, UK, and Canada are launching a 'diplomatic campaign' against RT.
Blinken and US State Department official James Rubin accused RT of attempting to interfere in elections and raise funds to support Russian military units in Ukraine. Rubin also suggested RT's influence might be contributing to a lack of support for Ukraine in the Global South.
On Saturday, RT's Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan and the Rossiya Segodnya media group called the accusations against their channel 'nonsense'.
"We are not an intelligence service. Maybe we'd like to be, maybe we could hide better if we were, but we haven't learned that, we're journalists, we continue to do our journalistic work," the editor-in-chief said.
Simonyan added that neither her nor the company had ever hidden support for the Russian Armed Forces, the people of Belgorod and Kursk, or those in Donetsk People's Republic, Lugansk People's Republic, Kherson and Zaporozhye.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova criticised the US measures, describing them as 'harassment', 'bullying' and 'pressure' rather than legitimate sanctions. She also accused the US of attempting to manipulate public opinion and revive election-related controversies.
On September 4, the US Treasury Department published a list of 10 individuals and two legal entities from Russia "as part of a coordinated US government response to Moscow's malign influence efforts targeting the 2024 US elections."
Washington has repeatedly accused Moscow of interfering in the 2016 US presidential election, in which Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation has found no evidence of collusion or coordination between Trump and the Russian government.
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Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov said that the US's accusations against Russian media and 'sanctions imposed' on the Russian broadcaster RT were bordering 'madness', during a press briefing in Moscow on Monday.
"It would be funny if it weren't so sad. The allegations made by these high-ranking employees are bordering on a kind of madness. We believe that attacks on the media, on journalists, on media managers are unacceptable. This is attacking the media, attacking journalists, attacking media executives," he said.
Peskov also claimed that such actions by the US authorities were trying to 'suppress Russia' and 'alternative views'.
These statements come after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the US, UK, and Canada are launching a 'diplomatic campaign' against RT.
Blinken and US State Department official James Rubin accused RT of attempting to interfere in elections and raise funds to support Russian military units in Ukraine. Rubin also suggested RT's influence might be contributing to a lack of support for Ukraine in the Global South.
On Saturday, RT's Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan and the Rossiya Segodnya media group called the accusations against their channel 'nonsense'.
"We are not an intelligence service. Maybe we'd like to be, maybe we could hide better if we were, but we haven't learned that, we're journalists, we continue to do our journalistic work," the editor-in-chief said.
Simonyan added that neither her nor the company had ever hidden support for the Russian Armed Forces, the people of Belgorod and Kursk, or those in Donetsk People's Republic, Lugansk People's Republic, Kherson and Zaporozhye.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova criticised the US measures, describing them as 'harassment', 'bullying' and 'pressure' rather than legitimate sanctions. She also accused the US of attempting to manipulate public opinion and revive election-related controversies.
On September 4, the US Treasury Department published a list of 10 individuals and two legal entities from Russia "as part of a coordinated US government response to Moscow's malign influence efforts targeting the 2024 US elections."
Washington has repeatedly accused Moscow of interfering in the 2016 US presidential election, in which Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation has found no evidence of collusion or coordination between Trump and the Russian government.
Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov said that the US's accusations against Russian media and 'sanctions imposed' on the Russian broadcaster RT were bordering 'madness', during a press briefing in Moscow on Monday.
"It would be funny if it weren't so sad. The allegations made by these high-ranking employees are bordering on a kind of madness. We believe that attacks on the media, on journalists, on media managers are unacceptable. This is attacking the media, attacking journalists, attacking media executives," he said.
Peskov also claimed that such actions by the US authorities were trying to 'suppress Russia' and 'alternative views'.
These statements come after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the US, UK, and Canada are launching a 'diplomatic campaign' against RT.
Blinken and US State Department official James Rubin accused RT of attempting to interfere in elections and raise funds to support Russian military units in Ukraine. Rubin also suggested RT's influence might be contributing to a lack of support for Ukraine in the Global South.
On Saturday, RT's Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan and the Rossiya Segodnya media group called the accusations against their channel 'nonsense'.
"We are not an intelligence service. Maybe we'd like to be, maybe we could hide better if we were, but we haven't learned that, we're journalists, we continue to do our journalistic work," the editor-in-chief said.
Simonyan added that neither her nor the company had ever hidden support for the Russian Armed Forces, the people of Belgorod and Kursk, or those in Donetsk People's Republic, Lugansk People's Republic, Kherson and Zaporozhye.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova criticised the US measures, describing them as 'harassment', 'bullying' and 'pressure' rather than legitimate sanctions. She also accused the US of attempting to manipulate public opinion and revive election-related controversies.
On September 4, the US Treasury Department published a list of 10 individuals and two legal entities from Russia "as part of a coordinated US government response to Moscow's malign influence efforts targeting the 2024 US elections."
Washington has repeatedly accused Moscow of interfering in the 2016 US presidential election, in which Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation has found no evidence of collusion or coordination between Trump and the Russian government.