Russia expels German media workers
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency According to Reuters, the spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, announced that Moscow responded to Berlin’s action against the country’s TV channel.
The spokesman of the Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday that the German journalists of the German radio and television channel “ARD” were ordered to leave Russia.
Zakharova stressed that Russia will be ready to issue new credentials to German media workers, but this will be done only after normal working conditions are established for Russian journalists in Germany. took.
Hours ago, the German government closed the local office of the Russian TV channel One in the country and ordered the employees of the office in Berlin to leave the country.
Sources of the network said that the order to leave Germany was issued almost immediately after the news of the arrest of a German citizen in Russia, who was planning to plant explosives. smuggle to Russia.
In response, the German Foreign Ministry has announced that Berlin has not closed the office of Russia’s One Channel and that Russian journalists can continue to work in Germany.
According to the announcement of the German Foreign Ministry, the deportation of these people may be related to visa issues.
