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Bank's decision to cut RT's funding a shock to network and to free speech
Imagine if the reverse had happened, if a Western media organisation had its bank accounts suspended, without explanation, in Russia, by a bank part-owned by the government.
Nick Miller is Europe correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
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UKIP leader Nigel Farage said there had been an "altercation" between "two grown men" at the meeting.
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