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October 18, 2016

British Bank Cuts Services to Russian-Backed RT Network
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In media news, a British state-owned bank has reportedly cut services to
the Russian-backed broadcaster RT. The station, which relies on state
funds from Moscow, decried the move as a form of a political censorship.
Margarita Simonyan is RT's editor-in-chief.

Margarita Simonyan: "For us, it is absolutely obvious that it's all
politically motivated. And it is yet another step-now a serious one-by
Britain to shut us up so that we stop broadcasting, stop telling what we
are telling, so that the orchestrated choir of mainstream media, which
pushes for a single narrative, would not be interrupted, and viewers
won't get distracted and won't listen to another point of view."

Topics:Russia

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