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Al Jazeera
Politics
John T Psaropoulos

‘Pragmatic manipulation’: Is Russia playing with European voters’ minds?

People walk near signs for the upcoming EU elections, at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium [File: Johanna Geron/Reuters]

Last month, the European Commission shut down broadcasts from four news outlets it said “spread and support the Russian propaganda and war of aggression against Ukraine”.

A week later, it froze the assets of one of those outlets, Voice of Europe, and sanctioned its owner, Viktor Medvedchuk, a former Ukrainian lawmaker who now resides in Russia.

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