{"id":9054,"date":"2022-06-24T22:01:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T19:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zdg.md\/en\/?p=9054"},"modified":"2022-06-24T22:01:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T19:01:54","slug":"president-maia-sandu-promulgated-the-law-banning-russian-news-broadcasts-in-moldova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zdg.md\/en\/president-maia-sandu-promulgated-the-law-banning-russian-news-broadcasts-in-moldova\/","title":{"rendered":"President Maia Sandu promulgated the law banning Russian news broadcasts in Moldova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Head of State promulgated on Sunday a law on information security, that will ban the broadcasting of Russian news and political analysis, the Kremlin regime&#8217;s main way of spreading its propaganda in Moldova. The law stipulates that the ban will also apply after the state of emergency in Moldova after Russia invaded Ukraine expires.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The law bans news and analytical broadcasts from countries that have not ratified the Convention on Transfrontier Television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Next week the law should enter into force and propaganda will be punished much more severely. 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