The editor-in-chief of RT called the European Parliament’s resolution on Russian and Islamist propaganda “a cloud of reason”

The editor-in-chief of Russia Today TV channel Margarita Simonyan commented at a press conference in Moscow on the adoption by the European Parliament of a resolution on countering Russian propaganda.

Simonyan wonders how Russia Today and the Sputnik news agency can be compared to the Islamic State (a terrorist organization banned in Russia - ed.).

“I don’t understand for whom this is more terrible - for us or the European establishment, which so easily betrays its own principles. The principle of freedom of speech is for sure,” Simonyan said.

Simonyan reproaches the European authorities that "as soon as a different opinion was heard, as soon as we had an audience," they decided to find legislative ways "so that this different opinion will never be heard again."

Earlier on Wednesday, the European Parliament adopted resolutions on countering propaganda coming from the Russian authorities and Islamist organizations.

The document states that Russia is using foreign-language media like Russia Today and Sputnik, as well as social networks, "Internet trolls" and think tanks working for foreign audiences, to question European democratic values, gather supporters in European countries and divide the people.