Russia has said it will take retaliatory measures after the U.S. announced sanctions against its state-funded media network, RT, threatening that they will make “everyone shudder.” (Al Jazeera)
Russia’s foreign ministry said the U.S. moves were part of a plan to purge any dissenting voices from the global media landscape and to stoke fears among U.S. voters about Russia as a mythical external enemy. “There will be a response,” Maria Zakharova, foreign ministry spokeswoman, said. (Reuters)
Dimitri Simes, former president of the Center for the National Interest, who was repeatedly named in the Mueller report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, was charged with working for a sanctioned Russian television station and laundering funds.
