
The State Duma accused the American media of attempts to interfere with the internal affairs of Russia, TASS reports . The deputies intend to create a special commission to investigate this issue, the head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov was invited to the lower house.
The head of the Voice of America, Radio Liberty, as well as the CNN television company, the head of the Information Policy Committee Leonid Levin, operated with the Russian State Duma -Duma, is a report on the coverage of the 2016 State Duma. "These media, which distribute information on the territory of Russia, are part of the large -scale system of US influence on the domestic political situation to Russia, in particular, in interaction and coordination with various funds and NPOs that are" foreign agents, "Levin said. In addition," his words were noted to coordinate the spread of the content of the American structures that are part of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Defense and the State Department ".
Levin emphasized that we are not talking about limiting the work of foreign media in Russia, and only compliance with Russian laws is discussed.
However, representatives of the LDPR fractions, United Russia and Fair Russia were proposed to be connected to the consideration of the special services. “I propose not to limit myself to today's discussion, but in closed mode to take a discussion again and invite Alexander Vasilyevich Bortnikov, because they have more materials, they know better,” said the LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky. He also called for the creation of the Ministry of Propaganda in Russia.
The head of the Committee on Education, United Russia Vyacheslav Nikonov agreed that the head of the FSB should perform in the State Duma. He also stated that one of the main anti -Russian NGOs is the Internet. "The Internet is a really non -profit organization registered in the United States," Nikonov said. According to Nikonov, in the West, anti -Russian propaganda "has been conducted since the 16th century."
"New technologies are not only penetrated into our consciousness, they are already beginning to change our identity. Therefore, the question of hearing experts that we can’t immediately ignore and not to build our system simply cannot," said the representative of Fair Russia, Nikolai Ryzhak.
The leader of the Communists, Gennady Zyuganov, did not call to turn to the special services. However, he urged to take "emergency measures", comparing the current situation with the Caribbean crisis and the "Bacchanalia of the 90s."
In March, the State Duma supported the protocol order on the verification of the activities of Russian services "Voice of America", "Radio Liberty" and CNN for compliance with Russian law. The first deputy head of the State Duma committee on CIS CIS Constantine Zatulin made such an initiative. He noted that on the eve of the Senator from New Gampshire Gene Shahin introduced a bill to the US Congress, which grants additional powers to the Ministry of Justice to verify the Russian television company Russia Today to comply with American legislation on foreign agents. "
"Given that the persecution on the basis of a specially adopted repressive legislative act can damage not only the business reputation of the Russian television company, but also the Russian Federation as a whole, consider it necessary to take constituent response measures," the instructions said.
In December, the former US Ambassador to Moscow, Michael McFaol, in his column at The Washington Post, wrote that the employees of Russian RT and Sputnik agency may be recognized as foreign agents . These media controlled by the Russian government, Macfol explained, during the last presidential campaign in the United States openly campaigned for candidate Donald Trump, and Sputnik even launched a hashtag #CrooKEDHILLARY (English. CONSIVE HILLARI - about Trump's opponent in the elections). “We have laws that do not allow foreign governments to provide candidates with financial support,” the former ambassador noted. “Do we should adopt laws that block and other support from them?”