Putin vows to retaliate for US actions against Russian media

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President Vladimir Putin is promising that Russia will retaliate for what he calls attacks on Russian media in the United States.

Putin's comments at a news conference Saturday in Vietnam follow complaints by the Kremlin-funded RT satellite TV channel that the U.S. Justice Department has ordered it to register as a foreign agent by Monday.

Putin says "attacking our media in the United States is an attack on freedom of speech, without any doubt," and promised to retaliate.

RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said the station would register, since otherwise its American director could be arrested and its accounts frozen. She says "we categorically disagree with this requirement" and vowed to sue. She says "this requirement is discriminatory, it contradicts both the principles of democracy and freedom of speech."
 
Russia threatens retaliation against U.S. media after RT network told to register as a foreign agent
http://www.latimes.com/politics/was...retaliation-against-1510257644-htmlstory.html
Russia said Thursday it could begin next week to take measures against U.S. media outlets working in Russia in retaliation for a decision by the U.S. Department of Justice to make the Kremlin-funded RT news agency register as a foreign agent.

The Justice Department set a deadline of Nov. 13 for RT to register as a foreign agency based on accusations that the Russian government-funded cable news network and website was a Kremlin propaganda outlet. The decision came in the wake of investigations into Kremlin attempts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

RT’s chief editor, Margarita Simonyan, said the outlet would register by the deadline but planned to challenge the decision in a U.S. court. Failure to register could result in the seizure of RT’s U.S. bank accounts and the arrest of the senior editor, Simonyan told Russian news outlets.

Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a news briefing that Russia was now considering retaliatory measures against U.S. media outlets.
Blatant pressure on the Russian mass media confirms that the United States pursues the course of deliberately hurting our relations,” the statement said. “We consider its demand as a wish to eliminate an alternative source of information, which is an unacceptable violation of the international norms of free press.”
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The threat of retaliation against U.S. media from the Kremlin is the latest in a diplomatic standoff that has resulted in both Moscow and Washington being forced to reduce embassy staff and give up diplomatic compounds.

“I think that our patience that is nearly run out will take some legal shape. I don’t rule out it will be done next week,” Zakharova told the Rossiya 24 television channel in an interview, the Russian news agency Tass reported.
 
It's like we are purposely trying to destroy every possible shred of diplomacy left with Russia.

If it isn't Congress it's the DoJ
 
Hahahaha -- Russia being all butthurt about "freedom of speech."
Only applies to U.S. citizens, Tovarishch Vlad. And Comrade Noise, as well.
 
And that being said I will continue to occasionally read RT news articles because they do have a different slant on world events than our home grown media do.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Hahahaha -- Russia being all butthurt about "freedom of speech."
Only applies to U.S. citizens, Tovarishch Vlad. And Comrade Noise, as well.
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it has nothing to do with "freedom of speech" -it's about forcing RT to register as a foreign agents.

I mean this is right on the c/p i posted???
 
noise said:
it has nothing to do with "freedom of speech" -it's about forcing RT to register as a foreign agents.

I mean this is right on the c/p i posted???
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I'm not really sure why forcing a foreign propaganda media outlet to register as a foreign agent is going to do anything to our freedom to access global media and use our critical thinking skills when reading the stories we select.... even if they are RT. BBC. Al Jazeera. India Today.


Of course, if Trump and his fellow Nazis are truly serious, they will do whatever they can to throttle our access to the Internet and non-US media sources.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
I'm not really sure why forcing a foreign propaganda media outlet to register as a foreign agent is going to do anything to our freedom to access global media and use our critical thinking skills when reading the stories we select.... even if they are RT. BBC. Al Jazeera. India Today.


Of course, if Trump and his fellow Nazis are truly serious, they will do whatever they can to throttle our access to the Internet and non-US media sources.
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I'm not sure of all the ramifications -but i do know it will restrict things like the VOA being available in Russia
 
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