The chief editor of the Russian cable news channel, RT, has stated the channel is being forced off the air in Washington, DC, because of its ‘foreign agent’ status. “We were thrown out of the broadcast network in Washington. This is dedicated to everyone who ardently and sincerely reassured us…
Image by Kremlin.ru In November 2015, the Free Thought Project reported that Mikhail Lesin, the former head of media affairs for the Russian government, and the founder of Russia Today (RT), was found dead in the hotel room that he was staying at in Washington DC. Russia Threatens American Media…
Russia Says It Will Retaliate Against U.S. Media Next Week.
Russia Threatens American Media With Crackdown In Response To US Pressure On RT.
Image by Aleksandr Zykov Today Russia summoned representatives from CNN in Moscow to accuse them of violating Russia’s international media law. The move seems to be a response to the US pressure on the Russian media channel RT, and Sputnik who operate globally, but Washington sees as a ‘foreign agent’…
Alexander Rubinstein and Evan Engel, who were on assignment for Russia’s RT channel and US broadcaster Vocativ, were detained during the riots in Washington, D.C. after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. The United States should guarantee that constitutional rights and international norms are respected in the case initiated against two reporters,…
The Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies, and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) threatened today to take measures against American media companies operating in Russia if pressure on the Russian television channel, RT, continued. Director Alexander Zharov said ways would be found to retaliate for the…