Moscow has banned German broadcaster Deutsche Welle from broadcasting via satellite and carrying out other broadcasts in Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said. At the same time, it cancels the accreditations of all the associates of the DW office in Moscow, closes the correspondent office and will consider the issue of including the German broadcasting company in the register of “media – foreign agents”.
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Moscow, as a first step in responding to Germany’s decision to ban the broadcast of the Russian-language Russian television station RT (Russia Today) DE, closed the correspondent office in Deutche Welle and accreditations of all associates of Deutche Welle’s office in Russia.
At the same time, Russia is instructing the relevant bodies to consider the issue of recognizing Deutche Welle as a “media agent”.
Moscow is also beginning to compile a list of representatives of government agencies of the Federal Republic of Germany, which have decided to ban the broadcasting of the Russia Today DE station in Germany, which will be banned from entering Russia.
The decision of the Russian government was taken in response to the decision taken by Germany to ban the satellite and online broadcasting of the Russian television channel RT DE in Germany. The Licensing and Supervision Commission (LAC), the regulatory authority for radio and television programs in Germany, took the decision on 2 February, justifying it by claiming that RT DE did not have the required license to broadcast in Germany, according to with the current “state law on the modernization of the situation for SMEs in Germany”.
The Berlin and Brandenburg Media Service (MABB) and the Licensing and Supervision Committee (ZAK) said this week that RT DE could not broadcast in Germany using a Serbian license.
Deutsche Welle has not yet received official information about the Russian government’s decision to ban broadcasting in Russia, DW spokesman Christoph Jubelt told Ser Spigel magazine.
“At the moment nothing official has come to us, neither in Berlin nor in Moscow,” he said, adding that they had learned about the Russian government’s decision from the media and that DW would announce its position later.
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