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The Prosecutor General’s Office, together with the competent authorities, is studying the possibility of recognizing the activities of a number of American media undesirable in Russia. This is reported by Interfax with reference to informed sources.

"After the on the eve of the Federation Council, a meeting of the working group on issues of increasing pressure on the Russian media in the United States, the Prosecutor General’s Office, together with the competent authorities, studies the possibility of recognizing the activities of a number of American media in Russia," one of the sources of the agency said.

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said he did not know about the initiative of the Prosecutor General, but does not exclude the adoption of response to foreign media in case of continuing the oppression of the Russian media in the United States. “A number of our media are subjected to unprecedented pressure, and a pressure that already significantly complicates the activities of our media in a number of Western countries, primarily in this case in the United States. Of course, in the case of further oppression, further violation of our media rights to unhindered activities, actions that will be carried out on the basis of the principles of reciprocity,” Peskov said.

The Kremlin expects that the actions of the American authorities in relation to the Russian media will be convicted by the international community, the presidential press secretary noted. "We hope that such an oppression of our media, in this case, I am talking about" RT "and" satellite "in America, will not go unnoticed by the relevant international instances, whose duties include monitoring the situation with freedom of speech and freedom of the media," Peskov said. However, he believes that the fact of media belonging to the state in this case does not matter. “The statehood or non -state media should not play any role in terms of ensuring the freedom of the media,” the press secretary said.

Last December, the former US Ambassador to Moscow, Michael McFaol, in his column at The Washington Post, wrote that Russian Today and Sputnik agencies should recognize foreign agents . Controlled by the Russian government RT and Sputnik, McFol explained, during the last presidential campaign in the United States openly campaigned for Donald Trump. “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?”

On September 11, the media reported that the FBI is suspected by the Russian Sputnik agency ofviolating the US Law on Foreign Agents , namely, in the work of a foreign propaganda means without appropriate registration. A number of American politicians, including members of Congress, require the Ministry of Justice to tighten the application of the law on foreign agents. At the same time, they are primarily worried about Sputnik and RT.