UK Sanctions Russian TV Figures in Bid to Crack Down on ‘Kremlin Disinformation’

UK Sanctions Russian TV Figures in Bid to Crack Down on ‘Kremlin Disinformation’
Vehicles of Russian state-controlled broadcaster Russia Today (RT) are seen near the Red Square in central Moscow on June 15, 2018. Gleb Garanich/Reuters
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The UK has imposed new sanctions on a number of Russian “propagandists” and media organisations for spreading “lies and deceit” about the war in Ukraine.

The Kremlin-backed TV-Novosti, which controls the RT news channel, and the state-owned Rossiya Segodnya, which is responsible for the Sputnik news agency, were among 14 new entries added to the UK’s sanctions list on March 31.