INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia's Foreign Ministry said Thursday that new United States sanctions against the state-funded RT news network were part of an
"information campaign" ahead of the November presidential race, adding it was working on a response.Washington indicted on Wednesday two RT
employees and sanctioned its top editors, accusing them of trying to influence the upcoming presidential election in the United States.The
10 individuals and two entities sanctioned by the United States Treasury Department include RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan and her
deputy Elizaveta Brodskaia."It's an obvious operation, an information campaign..
that was long prepared and that is needed ahead of the last stage of the electoral cycle," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told
state news agency RIA Novosti.She said a response to the new sanctions was "being prepared," adding that it would make "everyone
shudder."Washington also indicted on Wednesday two Russia-based RT employees, accusing them of funneling $10 million to a Tennessee-based
company that used social media influence to "create and distribute content to United States audiences with hidden Russian government
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