Russia accuses BBC of promoting terrorist propaganda

Media outlets are barred from publishing the statements of the organisation’s leaders or supporters in Russia.Russia has accused the BBC of promoting terrorist propaganda and threatened legal action against the British public broadcaster in a move that looks set to escalate a spiralling media dispute between London and Moscow.Roskomnadzor, the Russian state media regulator, said the material in question concerned quotes from a speech by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Islamic State, an