WASHINGTON (AP) — As tensions spiral between Russia and the West over the crisis in Ukraine, the Obama administration is denouncing Moscow’s imposition of new restrictions on independent Russian media.

The State Department on Friday said it was “deeply troubled” by dramatic new curbs on press freedom that it said make it easier for the government to spread “patently false” information.

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