The United States indicts two employees of Russia’s RT and imposes sanctions on top editors of the state-funded news outlet, accusing them of seeking to influence the 2024 US presidential election.
Attorney General Merrick Garland also announces the seizure of 32 internet domains that were part of an alleged campaign “to secure Russia’s preferred outcome,” which US officials have said would be Donald Trump winning the November vote.
“We have no tolerance for attempts by authoritarian regimes to exploit our democratic system of government,” Garland says at a meeting of the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force.
“We will be relentlessly aggressive in countering and disrupting attempts by Russia and Iran — as well as China or any other foreign malign actor — to interfere in our elections,” he says.
The 10 individuals and two entities sanctioned by the Treasury Department include RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan and her deputy Elizaveta Brodskaia.
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