Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs buildingMOSCOW, February 2The decision of the German media regulator to ban the broadcast of RT DE is forcing Moscow to take retaliatory measures against accredited German media outlets, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. Earlier, the Commission for Registration and Supervision of the MABB regulator banned the TV channel from broadcasting on all platforms in Germany. They said that the media resource did not receive permission, as required by paragraph 52 of the state contract on the activities of media service providers. In addition to satellite broadcasting, the regulator also demanded to stop broadcasting on the Web, through mobile applications or applications for Smart TV RT News. At the same time, the German side believes that the TV channel cannot appeal to other permissions in force in the EU.The source told how Moscow can respond to the harassment of RT in Germany «This step deprives us of any choice but to start implementing retaliatory measures against German media accredited in Russia, as well as Internet intermediaries who have arbitrarily and unreasonably deleted the channel's accounts from their platforms «, — noted in the Russian diplomatic department. At the same time, the decision of the regulator in the ministry was called «an unambiguous signal that Russian concerns are defiantly ignored.»The senator called possible retaliatory measures due to discrimination against RT DE legal As the Foreign Ministry noted, the verdict was adopted despite the fact that the media operated on the basis of a satellite broadcasting license issued by Serbia in full compliance with the European Convention on Transfrontier Television, to which Germany is also a party Deputy Ambassador of Russia to the OSCE Maxim Buyakevich told RIA Novosti that Moscow would demand a clear response from the representative of the organization on freedom of the media to Berlin's decision. =»/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/c4d3a16734a38acb70ade0b3ca92bb60.jpg» />The head of the UJR called the ban on RT broadcasting in Germany a violation of freedom of speechRT launched a new round-the-clock news channel in German on December 16. On the same day, it was blocked on YouTube, and then the European satellite operator Eutelsat excluded it from broadcasting. According to the head of MABB, Eva Flecken, the channel allegedly launched a German-language program live without obtaining a license. After that, an investigation began. In August, RT DE received an official refusal 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, according to Tubular Labs, Deutsche Welle and other German media. The Bundestag called the ban by the German authorities on broadcasting RT DE censorship
