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US media outlets in Russia will face investigations into whether they illegally influenced the country's parliamentary elections in 2016. Outlets such as Voice of America, Radio Free Europe (RL/RFE) and CNN will all fall under the spotlight, said Leonid Levin, the head of the State Duma Committee on Information and Communication. He said that journalists' work could have affected Russian elections. Levin also pointed to similar investigations on Russian state media in the United States. “The US Senate is considering a bill which grants the US Justice Ministry — including the FBI — additional powers to investigate potential violations of US law by RT America. Similar claims have been leveled at [state-funded English-language news website] Sputnik and other Russian media," he said.