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In the latest round of tit-for-tat sparring between the United States and Russia, the authorities in Moscow warned on Friday of a coming crackdown on American media outlets that operate in Russia, including CNN.
The move was explicitly intended as retaliation for an apparent American censure of RT, the state-run news organisation formerly known as Russia Today, which American intelligence sources have accused of being used as a propaganda outlet.
Officials in President Vladimir V Putin’s government said CNN, along with the federally funded Voice of America and Radio Liberty, might be designated as foreign agents, essentially identifying them as hostile intelligence
