Russian lawmakers will vote next week on measures banning all US media from the Lower House of parliament. A Deputy said today in response to the US Congress stripping state channel RT of its credentials. <br/><br/>A senior United Russia party lawmaker Olga Savastyanova said the Russian Duma will vote on the ban on Wednesday. It is unlikely that the proposal would be rejected by the overwhelmingly pro-Kremlin assembly. <br/><br/>There are 21 American media outlets accredited to work in Russia, according to the website of the foreign ministry which keeps the register and issues documents to journalists. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, the ban would apply to US media rather than journalists from other foreign countries.<br/><br/>The ban would be the latest development in tit-for-tat fallout from Washington's forced registration of RT as a "foreign agent" in the US.
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Russian lawmakers to vote on banning US media from Lower House of parliament