The Russian regulator Roskomnadzor has summoned representatives of CNN to discuss alleged violations of the country’s media legislation.
Quoting Vadim Ampelonsky, the regulator’s spokesman, speaking to the agency TASS, The Moscow Times reports that the broadcaster had provided it with an out-dated timeline and its documents were currently being examined.
However, The Moscow Times also quotes the Russian Foreign Ministry of threatening to retaliate against a US demand for the Russian broadcaster RT and Sputnik to be registered as foreign agents.
As previously reported by Broadband TV News, CNN was awarded a 10-year licence by Roskomnadzor in 2015.
CNN, which has been present in Russia since the early 1990s, had decided to withdraw from the country at the beginning of 2015 as a response to a ban on advertising on cable and satellite-delivered channels.
The latter was subsequently amended, allowing advertising on such channels providing those channels carried a minimum 75% of Russian content.