(CNN) Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed amendments into law that will allow foreign media outlets in Russia to be listed as "foreign agents," according to state-run news agency Sputnik news.

Russian officials have said the change is a retaliatory response to the US government's request that RT, the Russian TV network, register its American arm as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Sputnik reports the amendments signed by Putin had been previously approved by both chambers of the Russian parliament.

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This is a welcomed development... You do me I do you

Russia;:::::the only country in the whole wide world you just don't mess with n go Scot free

very good

Putin my main guy

Long overdue,I don't even know how the crazies in Washington think,they ought to know by now that with Vladimir Putin as president of Russia any action taken by them will surely be reciprocated kindly by him,Putin is not one to chicken out when confronted or cornered. Let them continue,Russia has just shown them in Syria that she is very capable of throwing spanners in the works of anyone who dares her...