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| Russia publishes response to RT DE ban in Germany | |
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| Among other measures, Moscow will halt operations of German state-owned broadcaster Deutsche Welle in Russia in response to Berlin’s ban on RT DE | |
| The Russian news office of the German public broadcaster, Deutsche Welle (DW), is to be closed as part of the “first round” of response measure to Berlin’s “unfriendly actions” against RT DE, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday. | The Russian news office of the German public broadcaster, Deutsche Welle (DW), is to be closed as part of the “first round” of response measure to Berlin’s “unfriendly actions” against RT DE, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday. |
| The German state-owned international news service will also be barred from broadcasting in Russia via a satellite or through other means, the statement added. All the staff members at DW’s Russian office are to be stripped of their press credentials, according to the foreign ministry. | |
| The Russian authorities also launched a procedure of recognizing DW as a “foreign media outlet acting as a foreign agent” under the Russian ‘Foreign Agents’ law. | |
| Moscow also said it was compiling a list of the German state and public entities linked to blocking RT DE broadcast in Germany and exerting pressure on the Moscow-based broadcaster. Representatives of the bodies that would get onto the list would be barred from entering the Russian territory, the foreign ministry said, adding that it would release information about subsequent rounds of reciprocal measures “in due time”. | |
| The Russian news office of the DW broadcaster has not commented on Moscow’s move, adding that it would communicate the information to the head office in Germany. | |
| The move comes a day after the German top media regulator sided with a regional authority and upheld a ban on RT DE broadcast in Germany, citing the absence of a locally-issued license. RT DE previously obtained a valid pan-European license in Serbia but the German regulators declared that license void. RT DE now has four weeks to appeal the decision in court, which it is planning to do. |