RT diversified the global news scene by keeping high professional standards and giving a platform to various, often inconvenient, opinions, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, congratulating the broadcaster on its anniversary.
When RT aired its first program from its Moscow studios on December 10, 2005, “we couldn’t have imagined how drastically this project would change the global news agenda, how much more versatile and richer the channel would make it,” Putin said in his address.
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