US Slaps Sanctions on Rossiya Segodnya Media Group
18:21 GMT 04.09.2024 (Updated: 18:48 GMT 04.09.2024)
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US Department of the Treasury said in a statement on Wednesday that it has sanctioned ten individuals and two entities responsible for what it called attempts to "influence" the outcome of November’s presidential elections.
"Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated ten individuals and two entities as part of a coordinated US government response to Moscow’s malign influence efforts targeting the 2024 US presidential election," the statement said.
US slaps sanctions on Rossiya Segodnya media group, including RIA Novosti, RT, Sputnik and Ruptly
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) September 4, 2024
The sanctions target 10 individuals and two organizations for "hostile interference in the presidential elections," the US Treasury Department revealed. These include the Rossiya… pic.twitter.com/F8oTjJQore
Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group, has commented on the news:
Wow, they "woke" up
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) September 4, 2024
That's how Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group, commented on the sanctions against her and a number of RT top managers. https://t.co/DKlqIZD0xx pic.twitter.com/uUq3lxx60K
