MOSCOW, May 23. /TASS/. Latvia, Ukraine and France top the list of countries that exhibit the worst biased behavior against Russian mass media and journalists over the past five years, head of the State Duma Security and Anti-Corruption Committee Vasily Piskarev said on Monday.

"Russia’s State Duma commission on affairs of foreign meddling have analyzed data over the past years on discriminatory actions and obvious repressions in regard to Russian media and journalists working abroad," the lawmaker said.

"It turned out that there were 13 most aggressive states pursuing this issue (Latvia, France, Moldova, Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, the United States, Great Britain, Georgia, Germany, Canada, Estonia and Romania)," Piskarev continued.

"The countries that top the list as far as the number of incidents are concerned are Latvia, Ukraine and France," Russia’s senior lawmaker said on his Telegram channel.

Piskarev noted that the West had embarked a massive crusade to tarnish Russian media over the course of the past several years "creating unbearable conditions for their work."

"It’s not only about rejected accreditations to attend official events and obstacles to banking services and broadcasting, but also about detentions and, even arrests [of Russian journalists], at state border lines because of their professional activities and national identity," Piskarev continued.

"… shaking in fear of the truth being exposed, the West is not only banning our media in their countries, but it also imposing its censorship on our media space, blocking Russian users from access to their national media outlets along social web networks and on the YouTube video host[ing site]," the lawmaker highlighted.

Piskarev added that in regard to all above-mentioned facts, a proposed bill by Russia’s parliamentary commission on counter-sanctions against Western measures to discriminate or ban Russian media, is adequate and straight to the point.

"It [the draft law] is more humane and civilized than the media war currently waged [against Russia] today," Piskarev said, emphasizing that the State Duma was most likely to debate this bill at its plenary session on May 24.