Audiovisual – The National Audiovisual Council (CNA) in Bucharest requested, on Saturday, the protection of the Romanian journalist Mircea Barbu, a correspondent of the online publication HotNews. CNA also condemned the decision of the Russian Federal Security Service to open a criminal file against him and two other foreign journalists, who did their job in areas of conflict between Ukrainian and Russian forces. The Romanian Foreign Ministry also emphasized, on Friday, that media representatives must be protected, not silenced. Moscow claims that the three journalists illegally crossed the Russian border from Ukraine to make reports in the occupied part of the Kursk region, where the Ukrainian army launched a surprise offensive on August 6, the first by a foreign army in Russia since World War II.
