Washington’s extreme reaction is due to panic at the fact that it’s losing its monopoly on global media
In late 1986 Yegor Ligachev, the secretary of the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee, and Viktor Chebrikov, then-head of the KGB, proposed that the country end the practice of jamming foreign radio stations. ‘Enemy voices’ was the popular term used at the time to describe these broadcasts from abroad.
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The lack of lobbyism is precisely the problem Russia has today in its relationship with the United States
Twenty-seven years ago, Russia embarked upon a journey of blockbuster proportions. The maelstrom that was the collapse of the Soviet Union gestured in a new era of economic and political realities — realities that mirror no historical analogy. In the same time it takes to binge-watch a Netflix Original Series, the world we ...
Even if we consider the fact that Russia-US relations keep deteriorating, such an attack on the particular media may be a dangerous precedent which can likely lead to the global practice of limiting of the foreign media activity
In November 2017, RT America
was registered
as an agent of the foreign government in the US. The decision seems to be ...