BERLIN, Jan 2 Ambassador to Berlin Sergei Nechaev in an interview with DPA agency. «There will certainly be a reaction from the Russian side,» he answered the question of whether there could be consequences for the German media in Russia. At the same time, the diplomat did not specify what measures might be. » I am not a Delphic oracle, but there are various options. There are many German journalists in Russia, «Nechaev added. 
The head of the Serbian regulator: the broadcasting license RT DE was issued legally According to him, in Russia there are conditions for the comfortable work of foreign journalists. «We do not want a conflict. We just want our broadcaster in Germany to be given the same rights and opportunities and to be able to work in peace,» the ambassador said. Answering the question whether reciprocal steps could affect the work of Deutsche Welle, Nechaev said that here «no automatism». “I would not anticipate events. I still hope that there will be no more pressure on RT in Germany,” he concluded. RT launched a new round-the-clock news channel in German on December 16. On the same day, he was blocked on YouTube, and then the European satellite operator Eutelsat removed him from broadcasts. According to the head of the German media regulator Eva Flecken, RT DE allegedly launched a German-language program live without obtaining a license, which led to an investigation. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova noted that Germany, without any legal basis, is doing everything to satellite broadcasting of RT DE was not possible, and this was a direct obstruction to the work of journalists. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, for his part, did not rule out that Russia would be forced to respond. In August, Luxembourg officially denied RT DE a broadcast license, citing «information and analysis by the German authorities.» In September, YouTube removed two RT DE channels without the right to recover, for alleged «violations of community rules.» At the same time, the TV channel ranked fourth in terms of influence among German-language media, beating, in particular, Deutsche Welle. 
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