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Media regulator in Russia to check legality of BBC operations Russian media regulator to investigate BBC's operations
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Russia’s media regulator is to carry out checks to determine whether the BBC World news channel and BBC websites are in compliance with Russian law.Russia’s media regulator is to carry out checks to determine whether the BBC World news channel and BBC websites are in compliance with Russian law.
The watchdog said it was acting in response to a decision by the British media regulator, Ofcom, which on Thursday said the Russian broadcaster RT had broken impartiality rules in some of its news and current affairs programmes.The watchdog said it was acting in response to a decision by the British media regulator, Ofcom, which on Thursday said the Russian broadcaster RT had broken impartiality rules in some of its news and current affairs programmes.
Russia has regularly threatened retaliatory actions against British media if the operations of its state news agencies such as RT are impeded in the UK.
Remarks from officials made it clear that the decision by the Russian regulator, Roskomnadzor, on Friday was a retaliatory action.
Margarita Simonyan, the head of RT, tweeted: “One must assume they’ll search for an alternative point of view on the BBC. With a microscope.”
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