RT TV office in MoscowMOSCOW, Jan 28 Germany, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. «As you put it (about retaliatory measures), the Germans know that this will happen if this does not happen (if the oppression does not end),» Lavrov said in an interview with Sputnik and Ekho Moskvy radio stations. , Moscow Says and Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Simonyan commented on the State Department's «stunning» conclusions about RT and Sputnik Earlier, Lavrov said that the Russian Federation has reason to believe that the German authorities are directly related to the harassment of RT DE in Germany. Earlier, at a press conference following the talks in Moscow, German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock was asked to comment on the situation around RT DE. The minister began to assert that RT DE journalists “always have access to journalistic activities,” and called the assumption that the German authorities were involved in the harassment of the channel’s journalists untrue. Earlier, the channel, citing editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan, said that Russia Today was launching 24/7 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 the TV broadcast, YouTube blocked the new channel.German authorities may be involved in harassment of RT DE, Lavrov said 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. The representative of the German media regulators and the head of the European media oversight body, Tobias Schmid, «informed Eutelsat» about this situation, MABB said. State Department accusations of propaganda against Russian media
