SAFN or Soviet Armed Forces Network was the Soviet News Network installed in New York City, after the initial Soviet invasion, to spread propaganda amongst the occupied citizens. The main news anchor of SAFN News was Tatiana Kempinski. For the most part, the SAFN network would make the Manhattan Resistance efforts as "isolated instances".
The SAFN is not only established in New York City. With it's first transmission in 1955, the Network is in place around the communist world (The equivalent of the BBC). The Soviet government created this network alongside the Red Army to consolidate their power over the Soviet Union and it's puppet states by using the SAFN Studios to spread propaganda on the Communist nations around the world. Their main objectives is to make people believe that the Soviet Union wants to liberate the world from terrorists, fascists and capitalists.
The SAFN in New York city is guarded by Soviet soldiers. As expected, it would control the flow of information within the media in the occupied country but one night, Troy Stone, brother of the Freedom Phantom (Christopher Stone), adressed the people of New York and the Manhattan Resistance to give in to Soviet demands, but it also resulted in his death after he tried to putdown the Soviet demands by stating shortly after that all he said we're lies that the Soviets guards, and presumably Tatarin himself, forced him to say. The Resistance later raided the building where the Soviet propaganda was coming from and Chris Stone adressed the New York citizens; encouraging them to resist, to not fall, and to embrace the 'American Dream'. This allowed the liberation of New York and caused unrest among the rest of North America, and soon after, the rest of the communist countries all around the world.