Russian TV channel RT confirms release of its stringer
Source: ITAR-TASS
MOSCOW, July 26. /ITAR-TASS/.
Stringer of Russian TV channel RT Graham Phillips who was detained in Ukraine several days ago was released and is staying in Poland, RT website reported.
Phillips went on the line for the first time since his disappearance on July 22.
Ukrainian media have earlier reported about the release of the journalist with the reference to the Ukrainian Security Service. They also said that Ukrainian law enforcement agencies had expelled Phillips from the country and banned him from entering Ukraine for three years, explaining this “by interests of state security, sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
The RT stringer confirmed this information in his Twitter account. He also added that he had not been beaten up after detention, but Ukrainian military forces had taken his car, money and bullet-proof vest. “I'm free, ok, deported from Ukraine, banned for 3 years, because 'I work for RT',” the RT stringer wrote down.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/british-journalist-graham-phillips-detained-east-ukraine
I'm free, ok, deported from Ukraine, banned for 3 years, because 'I work for RT'. My car, money, bullet-proof vest taken by Ukrainian army.
GrahamWPhillips @GrahamWP_UK
My accounts on Facebook and Vkontakte hacked, the Ukrainian SBU deleted every single file on my computer. Working to recover them now.
GrahamWPhillips @GrahamWP_UK
1/2 I wasn't beaten, Vadim was severely beaten, but had a difficult day of detention by the Ukrainian army at Donetsk Airport. They asked me
GrahamWPhillips @GrahamWP_UK
2/2 lots of questions about the Donetsk Republic. I refused to answer, they put me in a room next to artillery position, being fired at.
GrahamWPhillips @GrahamWP_UK
Going to Donetsk airport at night to film was entirely my own decision, @RT_com told me in strong terms not to go, but I went anyway.
https://twitter.com/GrahamWP_UK
Graham Phillips had been previously detained in May and released after two days in Mariupol:
Graham Phillips, a blogger hired on a freelance basis by the Kremlin-funded channel, gained notoriety during the conflict in the east for his gonzo-style subjective reports and his sharp online criticism of the Maidan protests and the new Ukrainian government, declaring several times that he believes the country "does not exist" any more.
Phillips, 35, tweeted to his nearly 11,000 followers that he had been released from custody, and revealed he was not facing any criminal charges or deportation threat following his arrest. He was arrested at a checkpoint near the flashpoint city of Mariupol on Tuesday and was transferred to Zaporozhye where he spent the night in detention ...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/british-journalist-graham-phillips-detained-east-ukraine
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got the boot. Boo Hoo! 
Guess what nationality these dead journalists are. Go on, guess!
a difference. 
rebels release the CNN journalist unharmed.
Armed men from the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic seized Anton Skiba outside a hotel in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk after he had worked for one day with a CNN television crew.
Graham Phillips should have been kicked out for what he was doing. Journalists are supposed to report unbiased and he was not and was actively on the rebel side. He also now seemed to have been in the country illegally and was deported. I wonder if Russia would be so nice?
So I'm gonna vote NO.
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[edit]"The creation of Russia Today was a part of a larger PR effort by the Russian government intended to improve the image of Russia abroad.[8] RT was conceived by former media minister Mikhail Lesin,[9] and Vladimir Putin's press spokesperson Aleksei Gromov.[10] At the time of RT's founding, RIA Novosti director Svetlana Mironyuk stated: "Unfortunately, at the level of mass consciousness in the West, Russia is associated with three words: communism, snow and poverty," and added "We would like to present a more complete picture of life in our country."[9] It is registered as an autonomous nonprofit organization[11][12] funded by the federal budget of Russia through the Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)
but, according to Wikipedia, a number of other American-based cable channels have Russian subsidiaries.
State-sponsored US propaganda is still broadcasted on Radio, nowadays they also have websites, of course.
They were founded as an anti-communist news source in 1949 by the National Committee for a Free Europe, as part of a large-scale Psychological Operation during the Cold War. RFE/RL received funds from the Central Intelligence Agency until 1972.[5] During the earliest years of Radio Free Europe's existence, the CIA and the U.S. Department of State issued broad policy directives, and a system evolved where broadcast policy was determined through negotiation among the CIA, the U.S. State Department, and RFE staff.[6]
RFE/RL was headquartered at Englischer Garten in Munich, Germany, from 1949 to 1995. In 1995, the headquarters were moved to Prague in the Czech Republic. European operations have been significantly reduced since the end of the Cold War. In addition to the headquarters, the service maintains 20 local bureaus in countries throughout their broadcast region, as well as a corporate office in Washington, D.C. RFE/RL broadcasts in 28 languages[7] to 21 countries[8] including Armenia, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.[9]
RFE/RL Broadcast Region 2009
