RT, Russia’s state-run international news network formerly known as Russia Today, has lost a legal battle in the European Union courts where it sought to overturn an EU decision to ban its operations in the “27” territory after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. The General Court of the EU, the Union’s […]
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Britain: The television license of the RT channel is revoked
LAST UPDATE: 10:31 Britain’s media regulator Ofcom said today it had revoked the Russian-backed RT (formerly Russia Today) television license, Reuters reported. “We do not consider RT eligible to be licensed in the UK and we are not convinced that it could be a responsible broadcaster,” Ofcom said on Twitter. Russia’s state-sponsored RT television channel […]
France: Request for suspension of the television station and the website Russia Today
The chairman of the Culture Committee of the French Senate, Laurent Lafon, has written a letter to the chairman of the French audiovisual regulatory authority, Ross-Olivier Mestre, requesting the suspension of the television station and the website Russia Today in France. According to the newspaper Le Figaro, in his letter he stressed that the two […]