RT
Russian state-controlled international television network
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| September 16 2024 | Meta banned RT from its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, citing foreign interference activity. |
| August 9 2024 | RT's broadcast and studio equipment in Washington DC were auctioned off, signaling potential operational changes or challenges for the network. |
| September 2023 | RT launched its online platform in Portuguese as 'RT Brazil', expanding its international media presence. |
| 2022 | RT begins a three-year funding period expected to receive 82 billion rubles between 2022 and 2024. |
| October 2022 | RT launched RT Balkan to expand its audience. RT presenter Anton Krasovsky was suspended after making inflammatory comments about Ukrainian children and sexual violence. |
| September 2022 | RT launched RT Hindi to expand its audience. |
| August 2022 | RT France challenged the EU ban in the General Court of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which was ultimately dismissed on 27 July 2022. |
| March 16 2022 | The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission officially banned RT and RT France from the list of authorized non-Canadian programming services. |
| March 11 2022 | YouTube blocked RT and Sputnik worldwide. |
| March 3 2022 | Reddit blocked new outgoing links to RT and Sputnik. |
| March 3 2022 | RT America closed operations. |
| March 2 2022 | RT UK closed operations. |
| March 1 2022 | YouTube banned access to all RT and Sputnik channels in Europe. Apple removed RT and Sputnik from its App Store in all countries except Russia. |
| February 28 2022 | Ofcom opened 15 expedited investigations into RT, focusing on news editions broadcast on 27 February. Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok made RT's social media content unavailable in the European Union. |
| February 27 2022 | European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the European Union would ban RT and Sputnik from operating in its 27 member countries, leading to widespread blocking of RT across international networks. |
| February 24 2022 | Former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond suspends his RT talk show in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| February 23 2022 | French RT host Frédéric Taddeï quits his show following Russia's recognition of Donetsk and Luhansk breakaway states. |
| December 2021 | In Germany, RT was the No. 1 news source in terms of Facebook engagements (December 2021-January 2022). |
| December 2021 | RT launches RT DE TV in Germany using a Serbian broadcasting license, but is removed from European satellites a week later at the request of the German media regulator. |
| September 2021 | RT's German service (RT DE) was removed from YouTube for breaking the website's rules on COVID misinformation. |
| August 18 2021 | RAMI RIA Novosti was liquidated, and the ownership of ANO TV Novosti was transferred to ADIJ. |
| February 2021 | RT creates an account on Gab, a social network known for its far-right userbase, just before the start of Donald Trump's second impeachment trial. |
| 2020 | Latvia and Lithuania implemented bans on RT broadcasting. |
| August 18 2020 | ANO TV Novosti was owned by RAMI RIA Novosti and the Association for the Development of International Journalism (ADIJ), founded by Margarita Simonyan and other RT associates. |
| February 25 2019 | Facebook unblocks the In the NOW page after the page was updated with information about its funding and management. |
| February 15 2019 | Facebook temporarily blocks the In the NOW page, citing concerns about misleading viewers about the page's funding and management. |
| 2018 | RT staff start two new media projects: Redfish.media and In the NOW, positioned as alternative journalism platforms. |
| 2017 | RT launched its French-language channel, completing its multilingual expansion. |
| 2017 | RT launched the #1917LIVE project, a mock live tweeting program commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. The project featured multimedia social plug-ins including Periscope live streaming and virtual reality panoramic videos. |
| September 2017 | RT America was ordered to register as a foreign agent with the United States Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. |
| January 2017 | NatWest reverses its decision to cut banking services to RT, with RT's editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan stating that 'common sense has prevailed'. |
| October 2016 | NatWest bank announces it will no longer provide banking services to RT in the UK without providing reasons. |
| September 2015 | Despite initial budget concerns, government funding was increased to 20.8 billion rubles (around $300 million). |
| May 2015 | Between January and May, the Russian-language channel had approximately double the viewers of the main channel. |
| February 17 2015 | RT made available on Foxtel, the dominant Australian subscription television platform. |
| 2014 | Economic decline in the ruble forced RT to postpone German and French-language channels. |
| 2014 | RT received 11.87 billion rubles ($310 million) in government funding and paid partner networks around $260 million for channel distribution. |
| 2014 | RT was banned in Ukraine following Russia's annexation of Crimea. RT also launched its German-language channel and RT UK this year. |
| October 30 2014 | RT launches RT UK, a dedicated news channel aimed at British audiences. |
| July 12 2014 | During a visit to Argentina, Putin announced that Actualidad RT would broadcast free-to-air in the country, becoming the first foreign television channel to do so. |
| March 5 2014 | Liz Wahl, RT Washington D.C. bureau anchor, resigns on air, citing the network's propaganda. |
| March 4 2014 | RT host Abby Martin publicly criticizes Russia's intervention in Ukraine during her show 'Breaking the Set'. |
| 2013 | RT became the first television news channel to reach 1 billion views on YouTube. |
| December 31 2013 | Margarita Simonyan was appointed editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya while maintaining her duties as RT's editor-in-chief, following a presidential decree by Vladimir Putin that dissolved RIA Novosti. |
| June 2013 | Vladimir Putin visits the new RT broadcasting centre, emphasizing the network's goal to break the 'Anglo-Saxon monopoly on global information streams'. |
| June 13 2013 | RT airs a preview telecast of Larry King's new program 'Politicking', discussing Edward Snowden's PRISM surveillance program leak. |
| May 2013 | RT announces former CNN host Larry King will host a new talk show, bringing his Hulu series Larry King Now to the network. |
| 2012 | RT became the number one foreign network in five major U.S. urban areas. |
| 2012 | Alyona Minkovski leaves RT to join The Huffington Post, ending her show's run on the network. |
| 2012 | RT's editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan compared the channel to the Russian Ministry of Defence, stating they were 'waging an information war' with the Western world. |
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