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SIP 23 2016
Russian sponsored media outlets RT and Sputnik have targeted various activist
groups for their audiences, including environmentalists, civil rights activists, minorities. and
far-right and far-left elements of European society. Of note, RT often invites political figures
onto its channel who are viewed controversially in Europe. The channel gives
disproportionate coverage and airtime to the European Parliament,s more extreme factions.
In 20I4, members ofthe European Parliament from many Euroskeptic parties throughout
Europe acted as monitors for the Crimea referendum on joining Russia. and the separatist
elections in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts.
-i;:--JiI-j;:i-i,Deirdre M. Walsh