{"id":23681,"date":"2017-04-18T19:34:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T00:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23681"},"modified":"2017-04-18T19:35:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T00:35:34","slug":"voice-of-america-radio-liberty-cnn-are-tools-for-us-to-press-russia-state-duma-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23681","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Voice of America, Radio Liberty, CNN are tools for US to press Russia\u2019 \u2013 State Duma MP"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Voice of America, Radio Liberty, CNN are tools for US to press Russia\u2019 \u2013 State Duma MP<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Russian State Duma plenary meeting. \u00a9\u00a0Vladimir Fedorenko \/ Sputnik<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Washington used CNN and Russian-language US outlets Voice of America and Radio Liberty in attempts to meddle into the 2016 Russian elections and the situation in the country in general, the head of a parliamentary lower chamber committee said, urging an investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe are to look into the specific cases of the US attempts to influence the elections in Russia. However, I\u2019d like to remind you, that the agencies in question are parts of a much bigger US system pressing against our country. It uses a wide range of instruments against Russia,\u201d<\/em> the head of the lower house Committee for Information Policy, Leonid Levin MP (Fair Russia), said at an extended committee meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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CNN and Voice of America representatives were invited to the meeting as well, however, they didn\u2019t show up, according to Levin.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be reasonable to not only consider the possibilities of the US meddling into Russia\u2019s electoral process, but also into our affairs on the whole,\u201d<\/em> Levin said.<\/p>\n

The pressure system as he described it, involves \u201cvarious funds, NGOs and grants,\u201d<\/em> that should be subjected to checks, the MP said.<\/p>\n

Levin’s idea has been echoed by the head of the Lower House Committee for Eurasian Integration and Ties with Compatriots, Konstantin Zatulin, who was actually the first one to voice it in March after US Senator Jeanne Shaheen had called for investigating RT\u2019s \u201cfunding sources and foreign connections\u201d<\/em> and its activities as a \u201cforeign agent.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf they [the US] are legally creating obstacles on our way of spreading information, despite the amendments to the Constitution, freedoms and rights they are so proud of… then we have every reason to limit their corresponding state and parastatal radio stations and TV channels,\u201d<\/em> Zatulin said.<\/p>\n

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