I noticed that the Kremlin funded RT.com headlines today seem somewhat economical with the truth, failing to mention reports of a missile bringing down MH17 near the Ukraine-Russia border. During the Cold War the US funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Did the Kremlin ever create or contemplate an English (or French etc.) response? Did RT.com have a predecessor?
I remember the BBC would report that USSR TV & Radio stations had started playing military music leading to speculation that Brezhnev/Брежнев was near to death. There never seemed to be an "unofficial" mouthpiece.
Radio Moscow, and then the Voice of Russia, was a government-sponsored English language radio programme that broadcasted in the United States, and also acted as the international outlet for the opinions of the USSR and Russia. It was dissolved by President Putin and merged with another news organisation, which still operates today.