Propaganda

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Russia names nine U.S.-backed news outlets likely to be labeled 'foreign agents'

It said it had written to the U.S. government-sponsored Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), along with seven separate Russian or local-language news outlets run by RFE/RL. 

One of the seven outlets provides news on Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, one on Siberia, and one on the predominantly Muslim North Caucasus region. Another covers provincial Russia, one is an online TV station, another covers the mostly Muslim region of Tatarstan, and the other is a news portal that fact-checks the statements of Russian officials. 

Russia's broadside against U.S. media is part of the fallout from allegations that the Kremlin interfered in the U.S. presidential election last year in favor of Donald Trump.

 DYI:

Voice of America and Radio Free Europe has always been the propaganda arm of the U.S. from day one.  Of course the Russian government through Russian state sponsored media “pumps out” propaganda just as much as the U.S. main stream media employs.  Simply, a game of tit for tat; - all for the amusement of geopolitics.

DYI