Russia said on Thursday it was shutting down the operations of German broadcaster Deutsche Welle in Moscow and stripping its staff of their accreditation in a retaliatory move after Berlin banned Russian broadcaster RT DE, APA's Moscow correspondent reports.
Moscow said it would stop the German channel being broadcast in Russia and start proceedings that would see it declared a “foreign agent,” a designation that carries a negative Soviet-era connotation.
The Russian foreign ministry said it would also bar entry to Russia for German officials involved in the move to ban RT DE.
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