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A January 2017 report by The Swedish Institute of International Affairs found that a Swedish-language version of Sputnik News website was one of the main tools used by the Russian government to spread false information in Sweden including publicizing documents posted on little-known Swedish and Russian websites which were found to be forgeries.
Russian president Boris Yeltsin issued a decree on 22 December 1993 which reorganised Radio Moscow under a new name: Voice of Russia. [2]On 9 December 2013, Russian president Vladimir Putin issued a presidential decree dissolving the Voice of Russia as an agency, and merging it with RIA Novosti to form the Rossiya Segodnya international news agency.
Rossiya Segodnya incorporates the former RIA Novosti news service and the international radio service Voice of Russia (formerly Radio Moscow).According to the Decree of the President of Russia on 9 December 2013, [8] [9] [10] the mandate of the new agency is to "provide information on Russian state policy and Russian life and society for audiences abroad."
TikTok said Monday it had removed accounts belonging to the Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik for engaging in what it called “covert influence operations.”
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The YouTube channel of Alexander Mercouris focuses on Ukraine in an international context. Living in an environment where false information on international affairs appears in our media on a daily basis, it is very difficult to create a good understanding of the conflict in Ukraine.
Sputnik: Orbiting the world with George Galloway was a weekly television programme on RT UK presented by broadcaster George Galloway and his wife Gayatri. It was produced by Global Media Services, a subsidiary of the American news agency Associated Press . [ 1 ]
Putin responded by calling the work of the Russian news agencies RT and Sputnik effective. [328] On 1 March 2022, YouTube blocked across Europe channels connected to RT and Sputnik, [197] then worldwide on 11 March, due to the channels' insistence that Russia was not waging war in Ukraine. [329] Roku and DirectTV also dropped RT. [330]