US pressure on RT will get proper response: Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday slammed Washington's demands for state channel RT to register as a foreign agent in the US as "an attack" on its media, while vowing a "tit-for-tat" response, reports AFP.

The Kremlin-backed broadcaster, formerly known as Russia Today, said earlier this week the US Department of Justice had given it until Monday to register its US operations as a foreign agent or see its head arrested and its accounts frozen.

"An attack on our media is an attack on freedom of speech," Putin told journalists at the APEC summit in Vietnam. "They went the route of de-facto closure (of RT)," Putin said. "There will be a proper tit-for-tat response."

RT and state-owned news agency Sputnik have been accused by US intelligence of spreading misinformation during the 2016 presidential campaign and election which may have influenced the vote's outcome.

 

US pressure on RT will get proper response: Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday slammed Washingtons demands for state channel RT to register as a foreign agent in the US as an attack on its media, while vowing a tit-for-tat response, reports AFP. The Kremlin-backed broadcaster, formerly known as Russia Today, said earlier this week the US Department of Justice had given it until Monday to register its US operations as a foreign agent or see its head arrested and its accounts frozen. An attack on our media is an attack on freedom of speech, Putin told journalists at the APEC summit in Vietnam. They went the route of de-facto closure (of RT), Putin said. There will be a proper tit-for-tat response. RT and state-owned news agency Sputnik have been accused by US intelligence of spreading misinformation during the 2016 presidential campaign and election which may have influenced the votes outcome.