Thompson Reuters Corp (TRI)

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Reuters have ceased its operations as a news agency and a media outlet. This enterprise systematically engages in forging and spreading deliberate misinformation, legalization of rumors in the interests of its sponsors; invents news opportunities with the aim of damaging Russian economy, Russian companies and the Russian state,” the statement read.

Those actions by the international news organization constitute “informational sabotage,” it said.

Rosneft insisted that it had no other choice but to “address the law enforcement agencies in order to curb the activities of this bogus agency [Reuters] on the territory of Russia.”