A Missouri-based radio station is facing criticism for airing Russian state-sponsored programming after the country's invasion of Ukraine. The station's founder says he's standing up for free speech and alternative viewpoints.
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Radio Sputnik is produced by the U.S.-based branch of Rossiya Segodnya, a media group operated by the Russian government. During one recent broadcast of “The Critical Hour” that aired on Schartel's KCXL, the hosts and their guests echoed false and unsupported claims about Ukraine’s government.
Schartel's Alpine Broadcasting Corp. is paid $5,000 a month to air Radio Sputnik in two three-hour blocks each day, according to a U.S. Justice Department Foreign Agent Registration Act filing in December 2021. “It this station thinks it’s going to make a mark in Missouri by playing Radio Sputnik, they have the right to do so,” Gutterman said.
Because of his contracts with Rossiya Segodnya, the Justice Department required Ferolito to register as a foreign government agent in 2018, citing a 1938 law for people lobbying for or acting on behalf of a foreign government. Ferolito lost a lawsuit over the registration.
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