U.S. media outlets might face new retaliatory restrictions in Russia as a punishment for the U.S. audit over Russian state-funded outlet RT, the spokesperson for the Russian foreign ministry told Russian broadcaster NTV on Sunday, Politico informs.
The U.S.’s inspection and pressure on the RT allow Russia to retaliate in kind, Maria Zakharova Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman insisted, citing a Russian law dating back to 1991.
“Everything that Russian journalists and the RT station are subject to on U.S. soil after we qualified it as restriction of their activities, we can apply similar measures to American journalists, American media here, on Russian territory,” Zakharova said.
According to a report published in January, the U.S. intelligence officials blamed the RT media outlet of using propaganda that would ease the Kremlin influence on U.S. politics. The report was part of a probe into the Russian interference in last November’s U.S. presidential election campaign.
Zakharova also stated that the funding of the media outlets or whether they were private or public didn’t matter, and she did not clarify which U.S. news organizations would be affected.
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