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Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova

Russia removes German journalists over Russian media office closure

Russia has requested reporters of the German media ARD to leave the country in light of German specialists' closure of Russian telecaster Station One's office, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.,

"Because of the threatening moves of German specialists, which were initiated against Russian journalists ... as a mirror measure, it is endorsed to German reporters to give up their license declarations and leave the domain of the Russian Organization," Zakharova said at a media instructions.

She added that Russia will be prepared to give license to new ARD representatives after Germany makes conditions for crafted by Russian writers and resumes exercises of Channel One's office.

Prior in the day, Russian media revealed German specialists were shutting Divert One's office in Berlin, requiring a journalist and a cameraman of the telecaster to leave Germany toward the beginning of December, Xinhua news organization detailed.

The telecaster gave a record by the German specialists, which purportedly expressed that "the exercises of Station One address a critical prompt danger to public request and security in Germany and the EU as they represent a danger to the course of the development of the general assessment and dynamic in the part states."