Governments in Britain, Germany and France also have complained about RT and its intentions, especially its reporting around European elections. "Some of the people are leaving, because it is tough for them morally to work as a foreign agent," she said. RT began its life focusing on domestic Russian news, but soon found the non-Russian-speaking segment of its international audience not all that interested. Asked how she would answer the question today, Simonyan turned the question around: "Why do you need a voice? Simonyan said RT suffered from the "fraudulent report that we published a fraudulent report."

Source: ABC News January 22, 2018 07:52 UTC