Speaking to the audience on Russia’s number-one TV show (by viewership) on its Rossiya TV channel last night, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that “American internet monopolies” had finally forced Russia to impose regulations on them. Zakharova made the statements in an interview on the Voskresny Vecher (“Sunday Evening”) show hosted by Vladimir Solovyov last night – for years.
Zakharova told Solovyov, “It was they [the U.S.] who precipitated what we have been stopping short of doing for quite a long time. We felt embarrassed about the necessity to impose regulatory measures in cyberspace. In what concerns American internet monopolies; we kept on thinking how it might be taken; whether we would violate any principles. No, we will not because they were violated long ago by the collective West,” she stressed.
