Rossiya Sevodnya being Russia's CNN.
[Regnum] The United States of America has imposed sanctions against the RT TV channel and its editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan, the Rossiya Segodnya media group, RIA Novosti, and Sputnik. This was stated in a statement by the US Treasury Department on September 4.
“Today’s sanctions complement the law enforcement actions taken by the Justice Department and the State Department’s designation of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and five of its subsidiaries — RIA Novosti, RT, TV Novosti, Ruptly, and Sputnik,” the document says.
It is noted that the American authorities are adding these media outlets to the list of foreign missions and will take steps to introduce visa restrictions. In addition, a reward of up to $10 million is announced for information regarding foreign interference in the US elections.
In addition to Simonyan, the new sanctions also affected several top managers of RT, in particular, deputy editors-in-chief Elena Brodskaya and Anton Anisimov. Also blacklisted were deputy head of RT's information broadcasting service Andrei Kiyashko, head of the digital media projects department Konstantin Kalashnikov, and employee of the digital media projects department Elena Afanasyeva.
In addition, the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated 10 individuals and two entities in response to Moscow's "malign efforts" to influence the 2024 US presidential election.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on August 22 it became known that the US authorities are planning to conduct new searches and bring criminal charges against Americans who cooperate with Russian media. The New York Times publication claims that a large-scale investigation has been launched, which should prevent the influence that Russia is allegedly exerting on the US before the upcoming presidential elections.
On June 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is overcoming the problems that the West is trying to create for it by imposing sanctions. He stressed that there is no other country in the world against which so many sanctions have been imposed, but this has not led to critical consequences.