The West has cut out Russian media from its information field, but Russia needs to continue to compete with Western media, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.
"We need to compete with them. We started competing very diffidently, but quite successfully. They absolutely did not hesitate to just cut out all our media from their information field," Peskov said during an open dialogue session "Elements of social engineering" at the Senezh management workshop.
The one-sided presentation of information, which is filled with Russophobia and hatred toward Russia, gradually begins to bore the Western audience, the spokesman added.
In November 2016, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the countering of Russian media, with Sputnik and RT named as the main threats in the document.
In last March, the EU imposed a ban on broadcasting and distribution of Sputnik and RT content within the sanctions against Russia, extending the restrictions to all means of content transmission and distribution, such as cable, satellite, IPTV, platforms, websites and apps.
Speaking of Sputnik, Mansur Liman, the head of the Nigerian Federal Radio Corporation, urged Russian media agencies such as Sputnik Africa to further present a more accurate image of Russia to the world.
"I think agencies like yours [Sputnik Africa] should continue to project this image of Russia so that the world will know that is not the Russia that we hear from the Western media," Liman stated in an interview.