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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Kieren Williams

Russia Today shut down in UK as Ofcom strips Kremlin-backed TV channel's licence

Russia Today has been shutdown in the UK after broadcasting watchdog Ofcom withdrew the organisations licence.

Ofcom wrote: “Following an independent regulatory process, we have today found that RT is not fit and proper to hold a licence in the UK. As a result we have revoked RT’s UK broadcasting licence.”

This comes amid 29 separate ongoing investigations by Ofcom into the due impartiality of RT’s news and current affairs coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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