Russia Today's Twitter suspended as social media site says 'account withheld'

The account of the Kremlin-funded media site Russia Today has been suspended in a number of countries due to controversies over its coverage

The Twitter account of the Russian state-controlled international news channel Russia Today has been suspended (

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The Twitter account of the Russian state-controlled international news channel Russia Today has been suspended.

The Kremlin-funded media site's account has been suspended in a number of countries due to controversies over its coverage.

Twitter profile now displays a blank white page with no image or logo or blue checked tick.

A small block of text explains that the account has been blocked in a number of countries, including the UK and many other European countries.

It says: "@RT_com's account has been blocked in Portugal, Finland, Sweden, Ireland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Germany, Greece, Romania, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Austria and Luxembourg. , Latvia, United Kingdom, Denmark, Lithuania, Croatia, Estonia, Cyprus, France, Spain, Belgium in response to a legal request ."

The RT logo on the screen of a smartphone (

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Last October, the controversial editor of Russia Today personally contacted Twitter CEO Elon Musk and asked him to free her network from Twitter purgatory.

Margarita Simonyan said, "Elon, since you're all for free speech, maybe unblock the RT and Sputnik accounts and also remove the phantom ban from mine."

RT is an ugly funder of the country's invasion of Ukraine and Ms. Simonyan once celebrated the deliberate targeting of civilians...