Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova and Sputnik, RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan are discussing the US attacks on Russian media.

Axarşaz reports citing Sputnik.

Russia’s Federation Council are examining actions taken by the US government toward Russian media and American media on the territory of the Russian Federation, in order to protect Russian sovereignty and prevent outside interference in the internal affairs of the nation. Maria Zakharova and Margarita Simonyan are participating in the discussion.

Sputnik and RT Editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said that the US has labeled RT a foreign agent.

She claimed that the label violates freedom of press considerations, eliminating journalists' access to information.

"If the US orders the closure of RT, we can stop it," Simonyan said.

FBI is investigating Sputnik's work. That means that the FBI may get access to employees' personal info, which may leak to the mass media, Simonyan added.

The US actions against Sputnik and RT make our work impossible, Simonyan emphasized.People are leaving the company and it makes it difficult for RT to hire part-time correspondents, Simonyan noted.

"People are afraid to work with us, because the US labels RT and Sputnik as criminals. But we do our job, nothing else. We didn't interfere in the US 2016 Presidential election, we just wrote about it as normal journalists."

"People and experts stopped talking to us because the US government labeled us a Kremlin tool, as Russian propaganda," she concluded.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has expressed its position on the issue last week, Maria Zakharova said during the discussio. But of the standpoint of the Russian MFA, the activites of the US govermant against Russian media is violations of its own domestic policy regarding the freedom of speech guarantees.