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Russian State's RT Media Group Starts Online Project In Serbian

RT has been banned from broadcasting in the European Union since March.
RT has been banned from broadcasting in the European Union since March.

The Russian state-controlled RT media group says it has launched an online Serbian-language project, RT Balkan. "The new multimedia website will cover the most important regional and international events from an alternative point of view," RT announced on November 15, adding that a new television station broadcasting in Serbian will be operational by 2024. RT's chief editor, Margarita Simonyan, wrote on Telegram: "We have launched RT in the Balkans. Because Kosovo is Serbia." RT, controlled by the Kremlin and financed from the Russian state budget, has been banned from broadcasting in the European Union since March 2022. To read the original story from RFE/RL's Balkan Service, click here.

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    RFE/RL's Balkan Service

    In 2019, RFE/RL's Balkan Service marked 25 years of reporting in one of the world’s most contested regions, championing professionalism and moderation in a media landscape that is sharply divided along ethnic and partisan lines.

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