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U.S. officials want another Russian media outlet to register as a foreign agent

Source: RIA Novosti

The U.S. Justice Department has reportedly ordered the company RIA Global LLC to register as a foreign agent working for the Russian government. The company employs American journalists who supply materials to the Sputnik news agency and radio station. U.S. officials say they believe RIA Global LLC is controlled by the Russian state-run news organization Rossiya Segodnya. RIA Global has also been identified as the foreign trustee of the Reston company, which broadcasts Sputnik’s signal in the United States. At the time of this writing, RIA Global LLC had not yet appeared on the Justice Department’s online registry of foreign agents.

In 2017, the U.S. government ordered RT to register as a foreign agent. The Russian state-run network did register, but it refused to reveal the source of its funding.

The Russian government has retaliated against the U.S. by enacting new legislation on foreign-agent mass media outlets, which it is enforcing against the independent U.S.-government-funded media outlets Voice of America and Radio Liberty.

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