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French presidential front-runner Emmanuel Macron’s campaign has declined to give Russia Today and Sputnik press accreditation after his team found the Russian state-owned news outlets publish misleading information about the candidate.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the denial of accreditation “outrageous” and “deliberate and bare-faced discrimination against Russian media by the presidential candidate of a state that has historically been vigilant when it comes to free speech.”

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