Switzerland’s Federal Department of Economics has acceded to EU restrictions on eight Russian media outlets, the Swiss government said in a statement released on Tuesday.
“Eight organisations have been added to Annex 25 and the existing entries of 158 persons and organisations in Annex 8 have been updated,” the statement said.
The new restrictions will take effect on Wednesday, 23 April.
On 24 February, the Council of the European Union approved the 16th package of sanctions against Russia.
At that time, the EU decided to halt the EU broadcasting licences of eight Russian media outlets” under the permanent control of the Russian leadership “and “that have played an important role in promoting and supporting Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, as well as in destabilising neighbouring countries and the EU and its member states.” According to the report, these are EADaily/Eurasia Daily, Fondsk, Lenta, NewsFront, RuBaltic, SouthFront, Strategic Culture Foundation, Krasnaya Zvezda/TVZvezda.