<span style="color: #222222;">Russia has threatened Moscow-based British media with retaliation after London's media watchdog imposed a heavy fine on the Kremlin-backed TV channel RT.<br />''<br />''The Russian foreign ministry said in a statement that British media working in Russia should be prepared to face the consequences of London's actions. It said that a fine is an act of censorship.<br />''<br />''UK's media regulator Ofcom had fined RT 225,000 euros for serious failures in its coverage of last year's Salisbury nerve agent poisoning and the Syrian conflict.<br />''<br />''Relations between London and Moscow sharply deteriorated after the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with a Soviet-era nerve agent in the English city of Salisbury on March 2018. </span><br />