MOSCOW, January 13. /TASS/. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko praised the important role of Russian media amid the large-scale information war being waged against the country.

"Over the past two years of a major information war on Russia by unfriendly countries, the role of the media has become especially important. For it is journalists, reporters and editors of television channels, the press and news agencies who cover the situation in the country and the world in a prompt and reliable manner," the senior Russian official said in his message of greetings on Russian Press Day.

He also lauded the media for providing the right guidance to the audience while protecting it from what he said was a flow of bogus stories.

Russia celebrates the professional holiday of reporters of periodicals and media workers on January 13.