International Emmy Academy Boots RT America-Affiliated Mikhail Solodovnikov Off Its Board Of Directors
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on Tuesday said it has booted Mikhail Solodovnikov off its board of directors.
Solodovnikov runs T&R Productions, the Russia-owned media company that operates RT America.In 2017, the U.S. Justice Department ordered T&R Productions to register as a “foreign agent” of Russia under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938.The Academy, which hands out the International Emmys, said it has also suspended Solodovnikov’s general membership, and that of Elizaveta Brodskaya, head of news at the Moscow-based RT International, RT Russia.
Their names, and those of several other Russian members, were stricken from the Academy’s membership list today.“Due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the International Academy is suspending Mikhail Solodovnikov’s membership and board position, as well as the membership of Elizaveta Brodskaya,” a spokesman for the Academy told Deadline.DirecTV Drops RT America In Wake Of Russian Invasion Of Ukraine; Ora Media Pauses Production On Dennis Miller, William Shatner ShowsThe moves come after Deadline made inquiries into their roles at the New York-based Academy, and as more and more countries are taking action against RT – formerly Russia Today – the state-controlled Russian television news empire that the U.S.
DOJ has labeled a “propaganda outlet” for the Kremlin.Earlier Tuesday, the National Association of Broadcasters called on U.S.
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