Thus, the deputies responded to a proposal to test a broadcaster RT in the United States.
The state Duma instructed the Duma Committee for information policy to check the activities of the Russian American media – “Radio Liberty”, si-EN-EN and “voice of America”.
Thus, the deputies responded to the bill Jeanne Shaheen, a member of the democratic minority in the U.S. Senate, according to which the Ministry of justice to be given additional powers to check Russian broadcaster RT in compliance with the American legislation on foreign agents.
According to Politico, the chances that the bill will be passed, is small, but it can be seen as a new attempt of the Democrats to check the version of Russian interference in presidential elections in the United States
“Given that persecution on the basis of specially adopted a repressive legal act may cause damage not only to the business reputation of Russian television and the Russian Federation as a whole, I consider it necessary to take proactive counter measures,” – said the author of the instructions supported by the deputies, first Deputy Chairman of the Committee on CIS Affairs Konstantin Zatulin.
RT critics abroad say that under the lighting “lighting is insufficient in the mainstream” of facts and questions the channel actively promotes conspiracy theories and fringe views.
The head of RT, Margarita Simonyan earlier complained that Russian journalists working in the West under “enormous pressure” from local authorities.
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