It is the BBC’s international channel, BBC World News, and its news sites, which will be reviewed, notify the Roskomnadzor, Russia’s state regulatory authority for the communications. The decision has been taken “in the light of the situation around the british regulator Ofcoms decision to RT in their reporting violated the rules of impartiality,” writes Roskomnadzor, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.
According to Ofcom broke RT’s news and current affairs programmes broadcast in march and april of this year against the rules in sändningstillståndet on seven occasions. Ofcom believes that the channel’s reporting was biased and not released until a sufficient number of different perspectives, and say that it can lead to action.
During the period was a large part of the reporting on the nervgiftsattacken on the Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in uk Salisbury. Two Russian men pointed out that Russian intelligence agents and managers got to tell his side of the matter in RT, where they claimed that they in fact were just tourists.
Examples of bias can also be found in the report that focused on the Ukrainian government’s attitude to nazism, if the Russian government’s treatment of roma, as well as on the Syrienkriget, according to Ofcom.
The british government says in a comment that it shows how RT’s “masquerading as an unbiased news aggregators falls of”.
