The press secretary of the State Department, Price, stood up for the Deutsche Welle closed in Moscow a day later
Ned Price. Photo: Susan Walsh / Reuters
The US State Department a day later stood up for the closed Deutsche Welle TV channel in Moscow. This was stated by State Department spokesman Ned Price on his Twitter account.
“The United States condemns the decision of the Russian government to close the Moscow bureau of Deutsche Welle,” he wrote, but did not react to the termination of broadcasting of the RT DE TV channel in Germany.
Earlier, the Russian permanent mission was outraged by the reaction of OSCE representative Teresa Ribeiro to the media about Moscow’s decision to close Deutsche Welle. The ministry said that the Russian Federation will draw serious conclusions from the comment of the OSCE representative, and called the actions of the representative of the organization “unprofessionalism” and “outright political bias in assessing the situation.”
On February 3, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced sanctions against Deutsche Welle in response to the actions of Germany to ban the broadcasting of the German-language TV channel RT DE. The agency reported on the termination of Deutsche Welle broadcasting in Russia, the closure of the organization’s office in Moscow, and the cancellation of accreditation of employees of the company’s Moscow bureau.
