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 ...
....org/wiki/Alien_and_sedition_acts. From 1947–1975, the House of Representatives had a Committee on Unamerican Activities (HUAC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee. Since 1938, the U.S. has had legislation that is very similar to the new Russian legislation--the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). President Putin has even been saying that the Russians copied their legislation from FARA.
This U.S. legislation requires that "agents representing the interests of foreign powers in a "political or ...