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The Justice Department directed CGTN America and Xinhua News Agency to register as foreign agents under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA). CGTN America registered under FARA on 1 February 2019, but said that it disagreed with the Justice Department's decision, but nevertheless registered as a foreign agent. [ 10 ]
Foreign agents may be citizens of the host country. In contemporary English, the term has a generally pejorative connotation, reinforced by its use in the US laws aimed to curb the foreign influence. [1] A covert foreign agent, also known as a secret agent of a foreign government, may in some countries be presumed to be engaging in espionage.
It, alongside 8 other American public broadcasters, was the first mass media outlet to be included to the so-called list of "foreign agents". [ 10 ] Current Time is available on cable , satellite and digital platforms in Russia, the Baltics , Belarus , Bulgaria , Ukraine , the Caucasus and central Asia . [ 9 ]
In response to the request of the United States Department of Justice that RT register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, Russia's Justice Ministry Konovalov labeled Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty as foreign agents in December 2017. [213] [214]
In Russia, the government designated radio's website as a "foreign agent" on May 14, 2021. RL's bank accounts were frozen. [123] By that time, Roskomnadzor, the Russian mass media regulator, had initiated 520 cases against the broadcaster, with total fines for the RL's refusal to mark its content with the "foreign agent" label estimated at $2 ...
C-span.org features further live programming such as committee hearings and speeches that are broadcast later in the day, after the House and Senate have left. [ 28 ] On January 12, 2017, the online feed for C-SPAN1 was interrupted and replaced by a feed from the Russian television network RT America for approximately 10 minutes. [ 29 ]
CGTN is the English-language news channel of state-run China Global Television Network, based in Beijing, China.It is one of several channels provided by China Global Television Network, the international division of Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV), under the control of the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
On November 13, 2017, RT America officially registered as a foreign agent and will be required to disclose financial information. [58] The U.S. Justice Department in 2018 ordered the Chinese state-run Xinhua News Agency and China Global Television Network to register as a foreign agent. [59]