U.S. 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.

"The structures we are discussing are part of a larger American system of pressure on our country,” Levin said at a committee meeting on Tuesday. “They are using a variety of instruments in respect to both the Russian electoral process and on our country as a whole.”