RT France, the French arm of the Russian state broadcaster, will shut down after its French bank accounts were frozen as part of the most recent EU sanctions against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, the channel's director said on January 21. "After five years of harassment, the authorities in power have achieved their goal: the closure of RT France," Ksenia Fedorova said on Twitter. Russian news agencies earlier quoted an anonymous Foreign Ministry source as saying that Moscow would retaliate against French media in Russia over the closing of RT France’s bank accounts.
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