Russia vows retaliation to "censorship" as Telegram blocks media outlets

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : In Poland, the Polish Internal Security Agency (ABW) launched an investigation into a Russian propaganda network in the spring, after the Czech Republic discovered a network spreading anti-EU and anti-Ukraine information.
51% : Russia had previously said that it would be open to lifting the bans on European outlets if the EU responded in kind.
44% : "Russia has previously responded to European bans on state media outlets by imposing its own bans on 81 media outlets from 25 countries in the EU, with the majority of bans targeting French media, according to Al Jazeera.
43% : "This is not the first time Russian state media has been blocked on the continent, as the EU previously suspended the broadcasting activity of four outlets including the Voice of Europe, RIA Novosti, Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta in May.
43% : Telegram may have blocked Russian state media channels in the EU in order to stem increasing amounts of pro-Kremlin propaganda being spread in some nations, including Poland, the Czech Republic, and Italy.
38% : While it is not clear if Telegram's blocking of Russian state media channels is spread across the entirety of the EU, the channels are inaccessible in at least seven countries.

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