The Russian Foreign Ministry has declined a request by a Federal Assembly commission to revoke accreditation for the New York Times and Financial Times newspapers following a slew of false reporting on the country’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Earlier on Wednesday, a Commission on the Investigation of Foreign Interference in Russia’s Internal Affairs formed by the State Duma asked the Foreign Ministry to take action against the Manhattan-based New York Times and London-based Financial Times following what commission head Vasilii Piskarev described as “simultaneously published articles on allegedly inconsistent official statistics on coronavirus mortality in Russia with real statistics.”
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