The German Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador

According to RCO News Agency, German Foreign Minister Analena Berbuk said on Thursday that the German Foreign Ministry has summoned the Russian ambassador to the country, Sergei Nechaev, for expelling journalists from the German ARD TV channel. is

According to the News agency “Ryanovsky” on Wednesday, Channel One of Russia (Channel One) announced that the German authorities will close the broadcaster’s office in the country and its reporter and cameraman will have to leave the country in the first half of December.

In response to this action of the German government, the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said: “In response to the unfriendly actions of the authorities in Berlin against Russian journalists and as a countermeasure and retaliatory measure, German journalists have been ordered to hand over their credentials and leave the territory of the Russian Federation.”

Christian Wagner, the spokesman of the German Foreign Ministry, then stated that Berlin has not closed the office of the Russian Channel One and that Russian journalists can continue to work in Germany, and that the current issue may be about visas.

In this regard, the German Foreign Minister claimed in a joint press conference with his New Zealand counterpart: “The expulsion of ARD employees from Russia is unacceptable and the justification for this is incorrect. We strongly condemn this matter. Therefore, today we summoned the Russian ambassador and I want to emphasize once again that there are no restrictions on media freedom in Germany or Europe. “There is absolutely no reason to connect this issue to the current dismissal of ARD employees.”

Berbuk’s claim is while Ivan Blagovi, a member of the Channel One news network, announced in a live program that the Berlin authorities ordered him and Dmitri Volkov, another employee of the network’s office in Germany, under the pretext of “endangering national security.” to leave Germany in the first half of December.

He said that he sent a 10-page report to the network’s office in Berlin, explaining that this decision was made by the German authorities based on EU sanctions against Russia.

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