In 2015 '' The Daily Beast '' reported that RT hugely exaggerated its global viewership and that its most-watched segments were on apolitical subjects . Between 2013 and 2015 , more than 80 % of RT 's viewership was for videos of accidents , crime , disasters , and natural phenomena , such as the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor event , with less than 1 % of viewership for political videos . In late 2015 , all of the 20 most watched videos on its main channel , totaling 300 million views were described as " disaster/novelty " . Of the top 100 , only small number could be categorized as political with only one covering Ukraine . The most popular video of Russian president Putin shows him singing " Blueberry Hill " at a 2010 St. Petersburg charity event . In 2017 , '' The Washington Post '' analysed RT 's popularity and concluded that " it ’s not very good at its job " as " Moscow ’s propaganda arm " due to its relative unpopularity . RT has disputed both '' The Daily Beast '' 's and '' The Washington Post '' 's assessments and has said that their analyses used outdated viewership data
Chelyabinsk meteor event
Chelyabinsk meteor
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