Deutsche Welle TV standMOSCOW, Feb. 3Deutsche Welle sometimes violated Russian law, but worked freely in Russia for many years, Vladimir Solovyov, head of the Russian Union of Journalists, told RIA Novosti. 
The Federation Council welcomed the decision to close the Deutsche Welle office «Firstly, the UJR is always against any restrictions on the media, as well as against those restrictions that are imposed on our media abroad, as well as those that arise for the work of foreign media with us, we are for freedom of the press,» Solovyov said. According to him, in this situation, «we are when, apparently, one of those articles of legislation is applied, according to which an equivalent response is applied if the activities of the Russian media in a certain country it is forbidden if they are prevented from working, respectively, mirror measures are applied.» «Unfortunately, in this situation there were no other possibilities and these mirror measures are being applied,» continued the head of the UJR.
The Deutsche Welle bureau in Moscow declined to comment on Russia's response. He also noted that Deutsche Welle, despite all the restrictions that were applied to Russian media in Germany, continued to work freely in Russia for many years. «(Deutsche Welle — ed.) was sometimes noticed that she violated Russian law, called people to rallies and sometimes published completely indecent texts and cartoons addressed to the leaders of the Russian state. Apparently, the time has come when it has now been decided to put an end to this,» Solovyov concluded. As the official representative of the Foreign Ministry said earlier Russian Federation Maria Zakharova, the OSCE is symptomatically silent about the decision of the Federal Republic of Germany to ban the broadcasting of RT DE, the representative for freedom of the media, Teresa Ribeiro, noted Zakharova, did not see «anything» in this that could be of interest. banned the broadcasting of the RT DE TV channel in Germany, saying that the broadcasters had no tons of necessary permission, RT, in turn, reported that RT DE Productions would appeal the decision of the German regulator in court. The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that they were starting to implement retaliatory measures against German media accredited in Russia, as well as Internet intermediaries who arbitrarily and unreasonably deleted the channel's accounts from their platforms. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that Russia would announce retaliatory measures against German media today due to the RT DE broadcast ban. />Butina called Russia's response to RT DE justified
