In the state Duma introduced a draft of a ban on entrance for the journalists of the American mass media is registered as a foreign agent

In the state Duma introduced a draft resolution, which prohibits a visit to the lower house of Parliament representatives of the American media recognized as foreign agents. This follows from the database of the state Duma.

before the Duma profile Committee considered a draft resolution that would ban American correspondents to visit the lower house. It have plans to Express support in the Federation Council. In addition to the prohibition in the document also included provisions where regional legislative councils are encouraged to introduce similar measures against media-registered as foreign agents.

This bill was a response to the deprivation of RT accreditation in the U.S. Congress because of Its status invagent. Limits have the opportunity to enter in the middle of December. First it was claimed that RT correspondent was deprived of accreditation after the fact, how the TV channel registered in the form of noagent.

The U.S. justice Department has made RT America in a list of foreign agents legally about foreign agents of 1938, while most other foreign state-run media such as the BBC, Chinese CCTV, the French television channel France 24, the German radio station Deutsche Welle is not registered in that capacity. In may 2017 Sputnik Agency refused to prolong accreditation to the U.S. Congress, at the repeated request on the extension until now no response received.

in response to the introduction of RT in the list of registered as foreign agents in Russia adopted the law according to which foreign media have the ability to recognize registered as foreign agents if their funding from abroad.


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