Russia orders check of American media in the country in retaliation for U.S. bill
Source: ABC News
By PATRICK REEVELL
Mar 18, 2017, 5:26 PM ET
The Russian parliament has ordered a check of U.S. media outlets operating in the country, in retaliation for what it said was an attack on Russian media in the United States.
The parliament's lower house, the State Duma, called for its information and telecoms committee to examine whether the activity of CNN, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other U.S. outlets is "in accordance with Russian legislation," a press release published on the body's website read.
The announcement didn't specify which other outlets could be targeted. Voice of America is a federal government broadcaster, while Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a private non-profit, funded by a Congressional grant. Both were set up to combat Soviet propaganda during the Cold War.
The lawmaker who instigated the order, Konstantin Zatulin, from the country's ruling party, United Russia, said the check was a response to calls from American politicians for a probe into Russian state outlets accused of interfering in the U.S. presidential elections, in particular the Kremlin-funded broadcaster, RT.
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That's 14 years of "not a word about it."
After 6 years of needling we had an "overload" button. Oops. Make that a "reload" button (aka "reset"
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Many cheered it until 2009, and then sort of ignored it for the most part (unless it was openly racist) until last summer. Suddenly everybody got religion. Their ox was gored.
Hard for me to blame the bad guy for not doing anything when the good guy did nothing about it for nearly 8 years, and only decided to say something because of a domestic political loss that could be blamed on Russia.
