The US Ministry of Justice has introduced RT in the register of foreign agents

The US Department of Justice confirmed that the American branch of the Russian RT channel registered as a foreign agent in the United States. TASS writes about this.

The acting assistant to the Prosecutor General Dan Boente said that the Americans have the right to know who acts in the United States in order to influence the government or the public on behalf of the foreign side. "

Earlier, RT editor Margarita Simonyanstated that she chose the latter between the criminal case and the registration as a foreign agent. Simonyan also noted that she intends to go to court to prove the illegality of the demands put up by the US Ministry of Justice.

The Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said that he considers US demand to register RT by a foreign agent unfriendly. The diplomat said that he had already visited the publication’s office and expressed his support to employees.

As a mirror measure in response to the decision of the US Ministry of Justice, the State Duma of the Russian Federation began to develop a bill that allows foreign media to equate foreign agents. Corctic and social networks will not be affected. The alleged foreign agents are called the Radio “Freedom”, the German Deutsche Welle, CNN and the Voice of America.

The representative of the New York Organization Committee for the Protection of Journalists (KZH) Alexander Ellerbek said that the coercion of RT America is a “bad idea”.

“This is a change in the position on how exactly the legislation has been applied over the past decades, so we have little data on how exactly the requirements for the presentation of information can affect individual journalists,” she emphasized and urged Russia not to take response measures in relation to the American media.