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Russian media regulator to investigate BBC's operations
Source: The Guardian
Russian media regulator to investigate BBC's operations
Retaliatory move comes after UK watchdog found network RT broke impartiality rules
Andrew Roth in Moscow and Jim Waterson in London
Fri 21 Dec 2018 12.13 GMT
Russia’s media regulator has said it will carry out checks to determine whether the BBC World News channel and BBC websites are in compliance with Russian law.
The Kremlin said the investigation was a direct response to a decision by the British media regulator, Ofcom, which on Thursday said the Russian broadcaster RT had broken impartiality rules in some of its news and current affairs programmes.
The Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said the BBC was being targeted for its “biased” coverage of events in Russia and Syria, and said the review could “certainly” be seen as a response to the Ofcom decision.
It “isn’t in the spirit of the media, but programmed and unfair coverage”, Peskov said in a daily telephone briefing with journalists.
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Retaliatory move comes after UK watchdog found network RT broke impartiality rules
Andrew Roth in Moscow and Jim Waterson in London
Fri 21 Dec 2018 12.13 GMT
Russia’s media regulator has said it will carry out checks to determine whether the BBC World News channel and BBC websites are in compliance with Russian law.
The Kremlin said the investigation was a direct response to a decision by the British media regulator, Ofcom, which on Thursday said the Russian broadcaster RT had broken impartiality rules in some of its news and current affairs programmes.
The Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said the BBC was being targeted for its “biased” coverage of events in Russia and Syria, and said the review could “certainly” be seen as a response to the Ofcom decision.
It “isn’t in the spirit of the media, but programmed and unfair coverage”, Peskov said in a daily telephone briefing with journalists.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/dec/21/media-regulator-in-russia-to-check-legality-of-bbc-operations