Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Konstantin KosachevMOSCOW, February 3 Deutsche Welle office closed in Russia, it became a forced, but absolutely adequate decision in response to repressions against RT, DW employees will no longer be able to work in the Russian Federation as journalists after the revocation of accreditation, Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev told RIA Novosti on Thursday. Russia in response to the termination of the broadcasting of the TV channel 
Belarus explained why they blocked the Deutsche Welle website «A forced, but absolutely adequate decision. RT DE was repressed precisely by the German authorities, there was no doubt about it th. And the reaction of the Russian authorities in this sense is the only possible one. I support it entirely,» the politician said. He stressed that «either freedom of speech for everyone, or restrictions — but also mutual.» «The choice is not ours, it is imposed on us. But it has been made, and it is not subject to appeal,» Kosachev noted. «Since their accreditation has been cancelled, further work on the territory of the Russian Federation as DW journalists is, of course, impossible,» the senator concluded.
The RT DE license was legally issued in Serbia, the regulator said
