Russian state-owned channel RT was named the Foreign Agent by US

American branch of Russian state-owned channel RT has to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) as a “propaganda from Moscow”. Russian Journalists Union called it a “double standards act” and “the political censorship from Washington,” that plays against US population, TASS informs.

Russian journalists plan a major protesting campaign. They are going to write an appeal to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), European federation of journalists, OSCE, US Committee to Protect Journalists and other organizations. Russian Federation Council has called the authorities in charge to develop responding actions from Russia in three weeks.

RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan has commented that "The war the US establishment wages with our journalists is dedicated to all the starry-eyed idealists who still believe in freedom of speech. Those who invented it, have buried it.” Rival American TV channels have a benefit of the pressure that US authorities put over RT which is very popular in US, according to Simonyan.

It would be a felony if RT TV channel would not claim itself the Foreign Agent by October 17. It is worth mentioning that Foreign Agents Registration Act, passed in 1938, requires those who represent the interest of foreign powers to disclose their relationship along with information about related activities and finances.

Russkiy Mir