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RT agrees to register as foreign agent under US law enacted to expose Nazi propagandists.

390 views · Published 11 November 2017 · 2:17 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: NewsFromUkraine · 2017 · News & Politics

RT, former Russia Today, a Moscow-headquartered website and television channel that the U.S. government says is a propaganda outlet for the Kremlin, will register with U.S. authorities as a foreign agent, its editor said Thursday, November 9th, 2017.

The registration follows a months-long back-and-forth between RT and the Justice Department over whether it was required by U.S. law to register as an agent of the Russian government.

The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), passed in the run-up to World War II as a means of exposing pro-Nazi propagandists in the United States, requires that Americans working on behalf of foreign governments register as such with the government.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/rt-agrees-to-register-as-an-agent-of-the-russian-government/2017/11/09/bd62f9a2-c558-11e7-aae0-cb18a8c29c65_story.html?utm_term=.fb1de9d41202

RT agrees to register as foreign agent under US law enacted to expose Nazi propagandists.

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