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RT, the four-year-old English-language global television channel formerly known as Russia Today, has opened up all its content to rival networks for free use.

RT's FreeVideo is the first English-language video agency in the country, the Russian state-funded channel has announced.

The service is made up of news stories and programmes in high definition format, which can be accessed at http://freevideo.rt.tv and on the channel's main website .

Any internet user and media organisation is encouraged to watch RT news and download reports free of charge, including from the regularly updated archive.

As reported in Journalism.co.uk's interview with editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan , interactive content is a priority for the channel.

The opening up of content will help spread 'stories which are not aired in the mainstream media', said Simonyan.

"Mainly the audience we are trying to get is the type of audience which is not usually satisfied in the normal type of stories," she added.

RT is set to launch a Spanish-language channel in December.

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Judith Townend

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