statement on press freedom:the kremlin and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

 
The FPA deplores the Russian government’s attempts to stifle RFE / Radio Liberty’s operations by requiring registration as “foreign agents” in the same way we condemned the US administration’s insistence that RTS and Al-Jazeera register as foreign agents. In this Tweedledum and Tweedledee battle the only sure casualty is an open media, stifling public access to outside views. We call upon the Kremlin and the White House to declare ceasefire in this media squabble.