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Who is Jihadi John? CNN’s blooper hints he’s… Putin.

RT.com
February 26, 2015 16:23

As the world media raced to break the identity of the Islamic State killer nicknamed Jihadi John, some of them moved too fast. Like CNN, who unexpectedly paraded Vladimir Putin’s image in its Who-is-Jihadi-John report.

Thursday’s report by Max Foster from the London office of CNN International was supposed to reveal the identity of Jihadi John, a young British man who is believed to have executed a number of ISIS hostages.

Yet, as his report was going into its fourth minute, the on-air gallery depicting a masked man in black robes with a knife in his hand gave way to the image of a somewhat sarcastic Russian president.

“I think, certainly there are concerns now about hostages being put at risk, and about eventually prosecuting this man, Jihadi John, in the future,” Foster was saying, oblivious of the change of picture next to him.

Last September, British security services managed to identify Mohammad Emwazi, who featured in several extremist videos of the beheadings of the US and British hostages. There has been a long discussion whether it was appropriate to reveal his identity to the general public, intensified by claims that it could put many lives at stake.

As for CNN, bloopers seem to be tormenting the channel as of late. Just previous week CNN’s map claimed the whole of Ukraine was occupied by Russia – under a title reading “Diplomatic & military crisis.” An earlier CNN attempt at a map placed Ukraine somewhere around Pakistan.

СNN called the incident a technical failure in comments to TASS news agency.

“Due to a failure of a video server during today’s breaking news broadcast, a photo of Vladimir Putin, prepared for our next report, was accidentally shown. We apologize for that mistake,” a channel spokesman told TASS.

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'Money can’t buy all airwaves': RT host launches campaign against US media empire.

RT.com
March 04, 2015 00:02

RT’s Anissa Naouai has launched a crowdfunding campaign urging viewers to send a symbolic message to the US State Department and Washington’s media empire, donating money to fight autism.

The GoFundMe project was launched by the host of RT’s 'In the Now' program, Anissa Naouai, after the US Secretary of State asked for more money from the government for propaganda and “democracy promotion” programs around the world. Instead, Anissa urges support for Our Sunny World, a partner foundation with Autism Europe.



Kerry asked for $639 million “to help our friends in Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova as they seek to strengthen their democracies, withstand pressure from Russia” and over $2 billion more for “democracy, human rights, and governance programs.” Speaking at a House Committee meeting, Kerry explained the plea by the fact that US media is losing the battle for international audiences to RT.

“Russia Today [now RT] can be heard in English, do we have an equivalent that can be heard in Russian?” he said. “It’s a pretty expensive proposition. They are spending huge amounts of money, speaking languages other people understand and putting out information other people understand to other countries around them. And we are not.”

Kerry failed to mention that Voice of America has been broadcasting in Russian since 1947. In addition, if you compare RT’s budget ($220 million in 2015) to the one US government media receives, you find RT’s pales in comparison.

“Mainstream media who are backed by American corporations have a hold on almost all outlets… I'm talking hundreds of billions of dollars,” says Anissa. “Plus 700 million dollars for government media projects under the US Broadcasting Board of Governors.”


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The 2015 budget was set at $721 million for programs under the US Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which is a bipartisan agency that supervises government-sponsored media and targets international audiences.

“So RT's open and modest budget of $220 million isn't the real problem for the American government,” Anissa says. “This is the problem: YOU. Our audience. They see through the propaganda.”

This is not the first time Kerry and other US politicians have lashed out at RT. During a press conference with the State Department in April 2014, Kerry rounded on RT for its coverage of the Ukraine crisis saying it’s a “propaganda bullhorn.”

Back in 2011, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared the US was losing a media war with up-and-coming, alternative outlets like Al Jazeera and RT. “We are in an information war and we are losing that war,” said Clinton.

Furthermore, in January the BBG chief Andrew Lack put RT in the same breath as ISIS and Boko Haram as one of the challenges facing his agency. It wasn’t the first time the BBG referred to RT as a ‘challenge’. In August 2014, Jeffrey Shell, BBG chairman at the time, called for a “plan” detailing how to “compete with Russia Today.”

Anissa reminded that RT presents another point of view that counters the US media, adding that viewers should be aware of this.

“People both in America and abroad need and want to hear about the trillions spent on Iraq and Afghanistan, about made-up dictators, traitors, and axes of evil. About the civilians killed with US drones and soldiers forgotten. Wars started again and again to uphold a military industrial complex - all to keep a grip on global power.”

"Money can't buy all the airwaves and RT is not the enemy," Anissa states.

This crowdfunding campaign is a message to corporate US media and the State Department. However, the cause of the campaign is autism, which now affects one in 68 children and one in 42 boys. Autism’s prevalence is growing and there is no medical detection or cure for the complaint. The US National Institutes of Health’s total budget in 2012 was estimated at $30.86 billion, while only a small part, $169 million, went directly to autism research.

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Meet the ‘Ruskies’: American TV portrays stereotypical Russians.

RT
Mar 7, 2015



Hollywood rarely looks further than a good stereotype when it needs a villain and more often than not, Russians take on the role. So RT’s Alexey Yaroshevsky took a deeper look at how Russians are represented across the US media.

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Germans Fed Up With Media Lies.

IN THE NOW
Mar 12, 2015



A poll by German public broadcaster NDR has found out that 63 percent of Germans have little or no confidence in the Ukraine reporting by German media. Of these 63 percent almost every third thinks their reporting might be one-sided or not objective. No wonder given the principles which Germany's largest publishing house follows. Alex Springer SE - among its brands are Die Welt and BILD newspapers. So its media outlets have to uphold their policies which are further unification of the peoples of Europe, supporting the vital rights of the people of Israel and maintain solidarity with the United States of America. In other words Mainstream. Russia Insider ( russia-insider.com/en ) editor Charles Bausman is In the NOW telling us how German outlets are reacting to people's criticism and how his new project is launching to change things.

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Europe joins the RT bashing bandwagon.

IN THE NOW
Mar 12, 2015



It seems Washington has gotten to Europe. The body hammered out a resolution to battle the likes of RT. European leaders need a plan to counter Russian disinformation campaigns and support media freedom and European values in Russia. Sounds like John Kerry and the State Department. And so as many of you know we started a crowdfunding campaign to send a message to the State Department that RT is NOT a threat. Stand up to Media Empire and join.

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Back on air: ​CNN gets broadcast license in Russia after 3-month hiatus.

RT.com
March 24, 2015 07:01

CNN international has received a broadcast license in Russia, media watchdog Roskomnadzor confirmed. The channel stopped broadcasting at the end of 2014 after changes to Russian legislation.

“On March 23, we received a license from Roskomnadzor to broadcast [in Russia] for up to 10 years,” a source in the US company told Izvestia newspaper.

Roskomnadzor head Aleksandr Zharov confirmed that the watchdog gave a broadcast license to CNN.

“I welcome the fact that CNN clearly follow the agreements reached in the negotiations, and I believe that it [the channel] will also be accurate and flawless in its content policy,” he told the paper.

CNN stopped broadcasting in Russia on December 31, 2014, after changes to Russian legislation regulating the operation of mass media. In particular, a ban on advertisements on pay television came in force from January 1, 2015.

"Turner International is exploring options for the distribution of CNN in Russia in the light of recent amendments in Russian legislation concerning mass media,” a representative from Turner Broadcasting System Europe said in November.

“Amid this process, we are ending our current broadcasting agreements. We hope to return to the Russian market and will keep partners informed about our plans.”

Roskomnadzor then denied it had anything to do with CNN International’s plans to stop broadcasting in Russia.

“CNN shareholders should be asked about the reasons behind the stoppage of broadcast,” a Roskomnadzor representative Vadim Ampelonsky said. The news agency also cited a source familiar with the business of the news network in Russia saying that the reasons for pulling out were commercial.

Back in February the channel submitted an application to Roskomnadzor for obtaining a universal broadcasting license and re-registration.

Cable News Network (CNN) was created in the United States in 1980 by Ted Turner and was the first channel to begin broadcasting 24/7. CNN International was launched in 1985 and following the collapse of the Soviet Union began broadcasting in Russia at the beginning of the 1990s.

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rt.com/usa/244085-us-info-war-russia-isis/

Report calls for overhaul of US govt media to fight ‘info war’ with Russia, ISIS.

RT.com
March 26, 2015 01:20

Former US broadcasting officials, diplomats and politicians are calling for a complete overhaul of government-funded news operations, arguing that Washington’s rivals are winning the information war.

“US international communications strategy should be rebuilt from the ground up,” says a report previewed by Reuters on Wednesday. It was written by two former government broadcasters citing assessments from 30 foreign policy and diplomacy professionals.

Competitors with “anti-US messaging” are “fomenting an information war – and winning,” claims the study, co-written by former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) governor and director of Radio Liberty S. Enders Wimbush and former Radio France Europe/Radio Liberty vice president Elizabeth Portale.

Under the present arrangement, with roots going back to the 1940s, the BBG is overseeing what Reuters described as a “hodgepodge” of federal entities such as Voice of America and non-profits funded by government grants, like Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Wimbush and Portale argue that the BBG’s “political firewall” separating the media from US national security agencies is “overblown,” and that broadcasters are not always in tune with US foreign policy objectives as a result.

BBG’s 2016 budget proposal is asking for $751.1 million to “increase global engagement, move more aggressively into television and digital media, and support high priority audiences.” The agency is asking for $15.4 million to create and expand Russian-language programing and social media content. By comparison, its combined efforts against the Islamic State would amount to $6.1 million.

Facing what it says is “Russian aggression and Russian-language propaganda,” the BBG is asking for money to “provide credible journalism and information at scale in order to provide Russian language speakers with a fair and balanced picture of the world.”

Speaking with RT, William Jones of the weekly news magazine Executive Intelligence Review said there are other intentions behind the proposal.

“They are very frightened about the fact that their big lie about what is going on in Ukraine and elsewhere, and the situation in Russia generally, people just aren’t swallowing it. So they have to spend a lot of funds in order to try and get the message out,” Jones said. “They are not interested in truth. If they were interested in the truth, they wouldn’t be doing the things they are doing.”

Earlier this month, new BBG CEO Andrew Lack resigned after just six weeks on the job. Shortly after his appointment in January, he equated RT with terrorists when referring to challenges to US media.

“We are facing a number of challenges from entities like Russia Today which is out there pushing a point of view, the Islamic State in the Middle East and groups like Boko Haram,” Lack told The New York Times.

“Our nation is getting beat by Putin propaganda and our international broadcasting is floundering. It's unacceptable,” House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Ed Royce, a California Republican, said after Lack’s resignation.

Last year, Royce proposed a bill that would unify all US government broadcasters into the US International Communications Agency, while regional grant recipients such as RFE/RL would be consolidated into a 'Freedom News Network.' Passed by the House, the bill has yet to appear before the Senate.

However, the “general consensus” of experts polled in the Wimbush-Portale report is that “no reform would likely go far enough” to fix the challenges facing US international broadcasting.

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‘Free journalism doesn’t really exist in the US’

RT.com
March 26, 2015 16:30

The US mainstream media has been working hand in hand with the government in terms of carrying out a propaganda war and we see this especially in the situation over Ukraine, William Jones from Executive Intelligence Review, told RT.

RT: The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is asking for around $15 million to "counter a revanchist Russia". Why does the US feel so threatened?

William Jones: Obviously, it’s more difficult to tell a big lie than a small lie. Everybody knows for instance that ISIL is a dangerous group but not everybody thinks that Vladimir Putin is a bad guy. And therefore a lot more money has to be spent in trying to convince people that that is the case, than they have to convince people that ISIL is a bad organization and it has to be fought.

RT: A report headed by the former BBG chief says US broadcasters are not always in tune with Washington's foreign policy objectives. That could be seen as a good thing, couldn't it?

WJ: I would take that with a grain of salt. Free journalism in the US really doesn’t exist. There is an old saying that the oldest profession is prostitution and the second oldest is journalism. They go along to get along.I’ve been working in the journalist field for over 40 years and I’ve seen how when certain lines are drawn, everybody sticks to those lines. There are very few truth-seekers in journalism and those who are usually come in conflict with their own papers especially if they get government funding and are either relegated to the sidelines or chased out of the business entirely. I think that’s a slight exaggeration. The mainstream media has been working hand in hand with the US government in terms of carrying out a propaganda war and we see this especially in the situation over Ukraine.

RT: The US is investing heavily into state media broadcasting in foreign languages. How successful is that do you think?

WJ: I think there is always a limit to the power of a tyrant as the great poet Friedrich Schiller said. People will of course believe generally what the media is telling them if they watch their TV news and the likes and it certainly has its effect. But the fact that they have to spend such tremendous amounts of money especially on broadcasting, like I notice they are trying to send Russian-language broadcast in Latvia now. They are very frightened that the fact the big lie, about what is going on in Ukraine and elsewhere and the situation in Russia, generally people are not swallowing it so they have to spend a lot of funds in order to try and get the message out. But I think ultimately the truth will prevail. People are generally not as gullible as the people in authority sometimes think. And I think this propaganda campaign will ultimately be a failure, but they are going to do whatever they can to try and put their story out, their narrative to the general public.

RT: US foreign media has been criticized for being a very complicated, unwieldy system. What steps do you think the US government will take next to improve its information projection?

WJ: They are not really interested in information. They are interested in putting out a political line when a decision has been taken by the government that they are going to go after the Putin administration, there is going to be no compromise and they are going to have people behind him, they are going to rally the troops as well as they can. It’s easy enough to do because of the general trend of most of the mainstream journalism to go along with the going line, but in terms of the government broadcasts and VOA (Voice of America), Al Hurra, Radio Free Europe - they are just going to be putting in a very intensive campaign to try and carry out a story. It’s what Goebbels did in Nazi Germany. The policy is nothing new. But they are not interested in the truth, if they were interested in the truth they wouldn’t be doing things they are doing in trying to foment a war virtually in Ukraine.

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CrossTalk: West vs RT?

RT
Mar 27, 2015



Media wars have entered new territory: Secretary of State John Kerry, members of the EU and the military alliance NATO all have singled out this television station - RT - as some kind of security threat. Since when is holding and broadcasting a different opinion or narrative a threat to global media freedom?

CrossTalking with Anthony Salvia, Martin McCauley, and Don DeBar.

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Seems like miss don't intervene is going off to do other stuff.



Huuuge rant

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Wow, the butthurt is strong here..
rt.com/usa/neocons-stage-attack-alternative-media-965/ ..thought I remembered that asswipe!

www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/12/putin-tv-hires-conspiracy-royalty.html

Putin TV Hires Conspiracy Royalty

For the sons of Oliver Stone and Jesse Ventura, who have broken ‘exclusives’ on the Illuminati and interviewed a ‘rogue Egyptologist,’ the Kremlin-funded RT is the logical next step.
Abby Martin wasn’t sufficiently crazy.

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RT and Venezuela TeleSUR journalists unite to provide fresh perspective on news.

RT.com
March 30, 2015 21:02

RT's Spanish channel and pan-Latin American network TeleSUR in Venezuela launched a new joint project on Monday, aimed at providing a different perspective to Western mainstream media.

Titled “Venezuela and Russia. At gunpoint” ("Venezuela y Rusia en la mira" in Spanish), the project will feature a series of programs about the two countries and other international news relating to them. Broadcast as a telebridge, the format of the show will enable discussions between the studios on the two continents.

Hosts in both Moscow and Caracas studios will be joined live by experts from Latin America and Europe, to discuss news issues concerning both Russia and Venezuela. US sanctions and joint efforts at creating a multipolar world are expected to be some of the program’s hot topics.

“Within our cooperation with TeleSUR we’ve united our efforts towards fighting mainstream media and their way of lopsided coverage of events in our countries,” RT’s Spanish channel head Viktoriya Vorontsova said, adding that the project will “provide a ground for alternative views on US foreign policies.”

The two channels have previously had a broadcasting partnership, with TeleSUR having shown some of RT's programs to its audiences.

The two channels have also exchanged videos and other news content, including correspondents' broadcasts during breaking news coverage.

RT's Spanish channel has already been widely present on TV screens across Venezuela. It joined the country's state TV network TDA last year, and has also launched its broadcasting there as part of one of the world's largest satellite service providers DIRECTV.

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Western anti-Russian media that tries to hide war-crimes against Russians and make reports to get more Russians killed, is a war-crime itself, I think, and they should be shot on sight, that, is self-defense. They have thrown objectivity out the window and have to answer for that, becoming legitimate targets.
However, shooting Russian reporters that merely report what is going on, uncovering the truth, that, is a war-crime.

‘PRESS logo makes you target’: Killing journalists should be war crime, AP chief says.

RT.com
March 31, 2015 10:41

The Associated Press boss has joined the outcry over the killing and kidnapping of journalists, proposing to make it a war crime. His words come shortly after Ukraine made the list of top 5 deadliest destinations for reporters in 2014.

The AP president and CEO, Gary Pruitt, pointed to the increasingly upside down nature of conflict coverage, wherein reporters used to be seen as impartial civilians covering the fighting, but have since been counted as full participants, targeted for their work. An updated legal framework should reflect this, according to Pruitt.

"It used to be that when media wore PRESS emblazoned on their vest, or PRESS or MEDIA was on their vehicle, it gave them a degree of protection… But guess what: That labeling now is more likely to make them a target,” he said in a speech in Hong Kong’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club.

The global statistics have shot up, with 61 dead in 2014, putting the number of journalists killed since 1992 at 1,000, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The AP in particular lost four journalists on assignment last year.

Meanwhile, the bloody conflict in Ukraine, which has witnessed indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas in the east by Ukrainian forces, has also taken on a political dimension, with journalists in the firing line. Last year, the Rossiya Segodnya news agency lost prolific wartime photographer Andrey Stenin to the conflict. His sterling work gave people a window on the early Maidan uprising. He was eventually killed on August 6 near Donetsk, where his convoy came under fire from government forces.

Eight journalists have been killed in Ukraine in 2015 alone. Russia-based journalists became frequent targets for their work, as the video from Slavyansk below demonstrates.

There is death on all sides. Ukraine has lost prominent wartime photographer Sergey Nikolaev, who was with the ‘Segodnya’ newspaper. He was killed during mortar fire near Peski village. The 37-year-old was accompanied by a Ukrainian Right Sector volunteer - both were not wearing flak jackets. Nikolaev became the eighth journalist to perish in the conflict, according to CPJ data.

Naturally, not all deaths are a result of deliberate targeting, but the worsening trend of journalist killings doesn’t sit well with the AP chief, whose comments follow condemnation from the UN and numerous rights groups, including Human Rights Watch. Pruitt proposed creating a new protocol to the Geneva Convention, which would make targeting reporters a specific war crime. He also suggests adapting specific articles at the International Criminal Court.

The AP chief’s reasoning doesn’t just revolve around the changing nature of war, but of social media itself. Its growth increasingly means that extremist groups no longer need journalists to tell their story – they’ve now got Twitter, Facebook and so on.

"They don't need us, they don't want us. They want to tell their story in their way from start to finish with nothing in between, and a journalist is a potential critical filter that they don't want to have around.”

"The larger world, however, needs us. They need us to get the real facts out or the complete story out. Not just one side as they want to tell it,” Pruitt continued.

A further evolution in conflict is seen by the agency boss in hostage-taking. For militant groups it has been an invaluable source of ransom money. That includes abducting journalists and this practice has been on the increase.

Taken together with developments in social media, the it also means journalists aren’t indispensable and are often used by terrorist groups to gain media attention. This can end in public beheadings, broadcast internationally, or in public humiliation, with the reporter being kept alive to report on the terrorists’ gains, as the crisis in the Middle East has shown.

According to Pruitt, "a beheading becomes a bloody press release."

While the majority of slain journalists are attached to prominent news outfits, the AP want to make it their mission to include freelancers, who throw themselves into the conflict without proper training, eager to report on the fighting. Such skills, together with medical training and kits, should be the new standard, according to the agency chief.

Pruitt’s words follow a recent lawsuit by four journalists against the St. Louis police over their arrests during the Ferguson riots last August. They claim unlawful detention and mistreatment, which has also been on the rise lately.

According to the San Francisco-based Freedom of the Press Foundation, 24 journalists were arrested in Ferguson between August and November 2014, including RT’s Denise Reese.

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When I did a search for pictures of this Yuri, the only results were of this cosmonaut with the same name


Ukrainian Analyst Proposes Murdering Russian Journalists in Sniper Attacks.

Sputnik
POLITICS 14:23 06.04.2015

Ukrainian journalist and political analyst Yuri Romanenko says it's time for Ukraine's Armed Forces to start a deliberate campaign of murdering Russian journalists in Donbass, for the purpose of attracting global media attention.

Recalling a recent meeting at Harvard University on his Facebook page, Romanenko noted that he recommended to his colleagues that Ukrainian army snipers suppress Russian coverage of the war in Donbass by deliberately targeting Russian journalists operating in the region.

The political analyst noted that as the conversation turned to the powerful role played by information warfare in the present conflict, speakers began lamenting about how Ukraine has been falling out of the American media space recently. It was then that Romanenko decided to "inject some new life into the debate."

"I know how to resolve the problem of waning attention and to bring media attention to a new level. The Ukrainian army must selectively and carefully eliminate Russian journalists covering the situation in Donbass. We need to direct Ukrainian army snipers to shoot people wearing PRESS helmets, making them priority targets," Romanenko wrote, recalling his comments before the Harvard audience.

"Since the media represent a destructive weapon and allow Russia to operate not only in the war zone, but across Ukraine, taking out several dozen journalists in the conflict zone will reduce the quality of the picture presented in the Russian media and, therefore, reduce the effectiveness of their propaganda."

The political analyst explained that such an action would quickly bring Ukraine back into the center of the American media's attention, noting that while on the one hand this would serve as "bad PR" for Ukraine, "all the same, PR is PR, and we must do everything possible not to fall out of the US media's focus in the context of [its] presidential campaign."

The analyst noted that his Harvard hosts rejected his proposal outright, noting that the deliberate murder of journalists is a violation of international law, to which, in Romanenko's recollection, the Ukrainian delegation "happily grinned."

The analyst noted that when Russia repeatedly violated international law in relation to Ukraine, "you didn't seem too worried…so why should you be worried now? The intensification of the conflict, and bringing it to a new level, unable to be ignored by the US and Europe, serves as our magic wand."

Romanenko stated that following the meeting, "one man from the [Ukrainian] diaspora" told him "you are completely right; this is just the way to save Ukraine."

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RT wins 4 medals at New York Festivals.

RT.com
April 15, 2015 18:24

RT has won four medals at the New York Festivals 2015, awarding world’s best TV and film, with the awards handed out during the US National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas on April 14.

RT’s senior political correspondent, Anissa Naouai, won a Silver World Medal in the Best News Anchor category for her nightly news magazine ‘In the Now’. While CCTV America’s Anand Naidoo, host of ‘The Heat’, scooped the bronze medal, the top prize was not awarded at all.

In the Now is a fast-paced, hard-hitting breakdown of top global news stories, airing live from RT’s studios in Moscow.

The Silver World Medal for Best Documentaries on Social Issues went to RT’s film 'Albino Africa’, which tells a story of discrimination against Tanzanian children affected by albinism.

RT’s 'Technology Update' program, focusing on science and innovation, left the likes of BBC Worldwide behind to take the Gold World Medal for Promotional Art Direction.

The show’s creative promo reveals the vast opportunities to be presented by the implementation of nanotechnology in everyday life in the upcoming decades.

Interview program ‘In A Word’, which airs on RT’s Arabic channel, received the Bronze World Medal for Best Documentary/Information Program Promo.

RT has been a regular awardee at the New York Festivals medals in the last years. In 2014, the channel took gold for the documentary ‘Blood and Honor’, focusing on the Russia’s North Caucasus.

Julian Assange’s headline-grabbing interview series ‘The Julian Assange Show’ won the top prize for a political program the year before.

‘Technology Update’ has previously taken the Bronze World Medal among Science & Technology information programs.

RT is also the winner of the Monte Carlo TV Festival Awards for best 24-hr broadcast, and the only Russian TV channel to garner three nominations for the prestigious International Emmy Award for News.


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