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| Russia set to unveil response to RT DE ban in Germany | Russia set to unveil response to RT DE ban in Germany |
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| Moscow will announce retaliatory measures on Thursday, the Foreign Ministry has said | Moscow will announce retaliatory measures on Thursday, the Foreign Ministry has said |
| Russia is set to unveil its response to the banning of RT’s German-language news channel by regulators in Berlin, as part of a growing diplomatic row over media freedom. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova made the announcement regarding retaliatory measures to the RT DE ban on her Telegram channel. | |
| Germany’s media regulator confirmed on Wednesday that RT DE Productions GmbH, a Berlin-based production studio, should be considered a German-based broadcaster, subject to the country’s laws and regulations. RT DE broadcast “should therefore be discontinued via live stream, including on the internet, via mobile and smart TV app RT News, as well as via satellite,” the Medienanstalten agency claimed. | |
| RT DE said it plans to appeal the decision in court. RT DE Productions previously argued that it was a studio in Berlin which makes content for a broadcaster in Moscow. The TV signal had been beamed into Germany via satellite, on a valid Serbian broadcasting license. | |
| Both Germany and Serbia are part of the European Convention on Transfrontier Television (ECTT), which, RT DE argued, allowed it to broadcast in other European countries. The German authorities, however, rejected this. | |
| RT’s deputy editor-in-chief, Anna Belkina, suggested that the case against RT DE was politically motivated. “It appears as if the German authorities, politicians and even media are really afraid of something, afraid of an alternative point of view that the German-speaking audience can get access to on RT DE channel,” she said on Wednesday. | |
| The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the pressure on RT DE from Germany’s media authorities is “unacceptable.” | |
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