in paris. it turns out blocking russian back channels is not as simple as the eu hoped for. why not? it was not very easy because it was a political decision. it was unprecedented, so the first question that needed to be answered was what legal grounds do you use to forbid media organisations from broad casting from broadcasting in europe? and of course these are not your normal media organisations, but they use journalists with actual press cards and press credentials. so what happened is european leaders realise that the legal framework was not going to cut it. and so they went the economic sanctions route. but that is being challenged in front of eu courts to mac and we