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Russia Today, the Russian state-backed international news broadcaster, could be banned from broadcasting in Britain after regulator Ofcom found that it had broken impartiality rules around the reporting of the poisoning of former-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. The media regulator said that it was…

Russian broadcaster RT is being taken off the air in Washington, D.C., as of midnight on Sunday. The English-language channel, formerly known as Russia Today, has been described by US intelligence agencies as “state-run propaganda.” RT counters that it is a news operation that provides alternative information…

That 400-pound guy sitting in his bed has struck again. The state-run international TV station Russia Today overtook the online feed of C-SPAN, the public affairs network that broadcasts proceedings of both houses of Congress, for about 10 minutes today. The takeover interrupted coverage of political blather about the…

The UK bank accounts of state-run multilingual broadcaster Russia Today have been frozen, according to its editor-in-chief- Margarita Simonyan. She took to Twitter to announce the news on Monday saying: "They've closed our accounts in Britain. All our accounts. 'The decision is not subject to review.' Praise be to the…

Update: 5:30 AM: RT has released a statement  about Liz Wahl's resignation: "When a journalist disagrees with the editorial position of his or her organization, the usual course of action is to address those grievances with the editor, and, if they cannot be resolved, to quit like a professional. But when someone…