RT To Mark Its 10 Year Anniversary With International Conference On Media And Politics

Among the speakers and panelists are Ken Livingstone, the recently appointed to co-chair the opposition defence review in the UK and a mayor of London at the time of the 2005 terrorist attacks; former Interior Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Cyril Svoboda, who led the negotiations on Czech accession to the E.U.; U.S. politician and the Green Party's 2012 candidate for President of the United States Jill Stein; German statesman and ex-VP of OSCE Willy Wimmer, president of pan-Latin American news network teleSUR Patricia Villegas, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, who headed the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, the country's main foreign military intelligence organization; noted CIA whistleblower Raymond McGovern, and RT's own editor in chief Margarita Simonyan.

MOSCOW, 03/12/2015 (informazione.news - comunicati stampa - spettacolo)

Among the speakers and panelists are Ken Livingstone , the recently appointed to co-chair the opposition defence review in the UK and a mayor of London at the time of the 2005 terrorist attacks; former Interior Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Cyril Svoboda, who led the negotiations on Czech accession to the E.U.; U.S. politician and the Green Party's 2012 candidate for President of the United States Jill Stein ; German statesman and ex-VP of OSCE Willy Wimmer, president of pan-Latin American news network teleSUR Patricia Villegas , Lieutenant General Michael Flynn , who headed the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, the country's main foreign military intelligence organization; noted CIA whistleblower Raymond McGovern , and RT's own editor in chief Margarita Simonyan .

RT aired its first broadcast from the Moscow studios on December 10, 2005 . Since then, what was once a single channel, has grown into a global news network, bringing a fresh perspective on current events around the clock to over 700 million people in 100+ countries in English, Arabic and Spanish, with additional content available online in Russian, German and French. RT is the winner of the Monte-Carlo TV Festival for Best 24-Hour Newscast, the only Russian TV channel with three International Emmy nominations for news coverage, and the #1 TV news network on YouTube with over 3 billion views.

The conference will take place in Moscow's historic Metropol Hotel from 9:30 to 16:30 on Thursday, December 10, 2015 . To find out more about the event, press accreditation and how to attend, please go to http://conference.rt.com/ or contact: Anton Konyaev, aakonyaev@rttv.ru ,  +7 (499) 750-00-75 ext. 2390.

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