The foreign Ministry responded to the accusations in the transmission of media data of journalists of Bi-bi-si
. The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation called absurd the accusations of a private address in the transmission data of the correspondents of the Metropolitan edition of TV and radio bi-Bi-si media. Proper letter posted on the Internet representation offices.
The Ministry recalled that on December 17, hackers broke into the Internet resources of the Russian Embassy in London that the Russian side without delay announced. The Ministry did not rule out that the attackers could gain access to and also among them to information about the representatives of the British media working in Russia.
this week some Russian Internet resources published the names and photographs of employees of the Moscow Bureau Bi-bi-si. So, a link to a list of them posted on pikabu. EN, posted by the TV channel " Rain ".
the text of the names of employees of Bi-bi-si has noticed the print edition of the guardian, stating that the "leak" of the data happened after the fact, as the print edition of the Times published the names of correspondents, " working in the Moscow-backed Bureau of Sputnik in the UK."
Twenty-ninth day of December, bi-Bi-si stated that it had lodged a formal complaint with the foreign Ministry concerning the publication of data of their correspondents.
However, According to the official envoy of the foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, Firm bi-Bi-si has turned to the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation with the complaint to the leak of data about its employees, " even though all the phones they are well-known." She said that the Ministry received a call from a journalist bi-Bi-si, the questions that immediately said Commissioners of the Department of printing.
on the first day of the week, the British print edition of the Times has accused eight employees of the British Bureau of Sputnik in the "information war" against London and published their photos with showing posts. In addition, the article urged the government to take the assets of reporters.
Practice of publishing lists of correspondents, as if to pose a danger to the country, has launched a Ukrainian site "Peacemaker" who is posting personal data of workers of Ukrainian, Russian and Western media, including their addresses.
Action "Peacemaker" recognize as unlawful in the capital of Russia, and abroad.