The European News Agency Alliance (EANA) expelled the Russian news agency TASS from its membership following a secret vote of the General Assembly. As Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes, 20 of the 33 members of the alliance participated in the procedure, 19 of them supported the decision initiated by representatives of Ukraine. According to TASS CEO Andrey Kondershov, the European structure did not inform the agency of the reasons for the exclusion and did not provide examples of misinformation on its part.