German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, commenting on the situation with the ban on broadcasting the RT DE channel in Germany, said that the channel has not yet applied for work in the country. The broadcast was conducted by the RT channel.

“This is a state of law, you need to submit applications, they have not yet been submitted, they will be processed by the relevant departments and structures in accordance with existing and current laws that everyone can refer to,” Scholz said during a press conference after a meeting with the president. Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

In early February, the European satellite operator Eutelsat 9B removed from its platform the German-language TV channel RT DE, broadcasting from studios in Moscow, at the request of the German media regulator MABB.

Later, RT DE Productions GmbH applied to the Administrative Court of Berlin with a demand to cancel the decision of the German regulator.

In response, Moscow closed the correspondent office of the German television and radio company Deutsche Welle in Russia. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Russia is ready to resolve the situation with RT and DW if the FRG wishes.

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