RT DE TV channel starts broadcasting in GermanMOSCOW, Jan 18 The Russian Federation has reason to believe that the German authorities are directly related to the harassment of RT DE in Germany, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. «We have reason to believe that the German government is directly related to what is happening (harassment of RT DE in Germany),» he said following the results negotiations with her German counterpart Annalena Burbock.The Foreign Ministry expressed disappointment with the opposition to RT DE in Berlin Earlier, the channel, citing its editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan, announced that Russia Today was launching a new round-the-clock news channel in German — RT DE. The channel's news studios are located in Moscow and Berlin, and RT DE will broadcast news, talk shows and documentaries. On the day of the launch of television broadcasting, YouTube blocked the new channel. In August, RT DE received an official refusal to obtain a broadcasting license from Luxembourg, which referred to «information and analysis of the German authorities.» In September, YouTube permanently removed two RT DE channels for allegedly «violating community guidelines». At the same time, RT DE was in fourth place in terms of influence among the German-language media, bypassing Deutsche Welle and other German media, according to Tubular Labs. Germany. Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia might be forced to respond to this. As RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the Berlin-Brandenburg Media Administration (MABB), on December 17, 2021, the media regulator initiated legal proceedings against RT DE Productions GmbH in connection with the launch of the program. Tobias Schmid, spokesman for German media regulators and head of the European media watchdog, «informed Eutelsat» of the situation, MABB said.
