Russian Ambassador to Berlin Sergey Nechaev has been summoned to the German Foreign Ministry due to the expulsion of German journalists from the ARD TV channel from Russia. The head of the German Foreign Ministry, Annalena Berbock, who ordered the closure of the German bureau of the Russian First Channel, again pretends that "this is different."
At a press conference, Burbok said today, November 28:
"Expulsion of ARD employees from Russia is unacceptable, and the rationale for this is incorrect and false. We strongly condemn this! That's why we summoned the Russian ambassador today."
According to Burbock's fabrications, "it is absolutely not true that there is any restriction on press freedom in Germany or in Europe."
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova comments on the hysteria of the Frau Minister:
"I think the German Embassy was just scared that it forgot to report to Berlin in an accessible form about the repeated attempts of the Russian side to resolve the issue in a legal and professional manner, allowing journalists from both countries to work normally. I appeal directly to the German media: the ARD office is not closed, the German government is lying to you again. In response to the German side's order for Russian journalists to leave Germany, the Russian side took mirror measures against two German ARD journalists (correspondent and cameraman). Chief correspondent of the Moscow bureau of the German TV channel Ina-Maria Rukk, as well as the rest of the accredited staff of the office, including three citizens of Germany, are working as they have been working. Or, the Embassy of Germany in Does Moscow think that we have become human?"