Sputnik
Sputnik is a Russian state-owned news agency launched in 2014 by the Rossiya Segodnya international media group, headed by Dmitry Kiselyov. It operates multilingual news websites and radio services and functions as one of the main vehicles of Russia's external state-sponsored media. Its headquarters are in Moscow.
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RIA Novosti briefly publishes, then deletes column threatening nuclear strike against Lithuania
Russian state news agency RIA Novosti published and then removed a column that openly threatened a nuclear strike against Lithuania, days after the Lithuanian parliament moved to lift its constitutional ban on hosting weapons of mass destruction. The agency said the piece reflected only the author's personal opinion, not its editorial or state policy.