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FILE - In this Tuesday, June 11, 2013 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, visits the new headquarters of the "Russia Today" television channel in Moscow, Russia. Major brands in the export division of Russian media include RT, the RIA Novosti news agency and its English-language arm Sputnik, and the Voice of Russia radio station. Despite the pounding Russia’s economy is taking from the slump in the price of crude oil and the West’s Ukraine-related sanctions, the annual government budget allocation for RT alone has been hiked by 30 percent since 2014, to the ruble equivalent of $289 million. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool Photo via AP, File)

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 11, 2013 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, visits the new headquarters of the "Russia Today" television channel in Moscow, Russia. Major brands in the export division of Russian media include RT, the RIA Novosti news agency and its English-language arm Sputnik, and the Voice of Russia radio station. Despite the pounding Russia’s economy is taking from the slump in the price of crude oil and the West’s Ukraine-related sanctions, the annual government budget allocation for RT alone has been hiked by 30 percent since 2014, to the ruble equivalent of $289 million. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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