{"id":636491,"date":"2025-12-16T18:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/636491\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:20:18","slug":"russia-lists-german-broadcaster-deutsche-welle-as-undesirable-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/636491\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia lists German broadcaster Deutsche Welle as \u2018undesirable\u2019 | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moscow says the label means any form of cooperation with the broadcaster will be prosecuted.<\/p>\n

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Russia has labelled Germany\u2019s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) an \u201cundesirable organisation\u201d, essentially banning its operation in the country.<\/p>\n

The designation appeared in a Ministry of Justice register on Tuesday after Vasily Piskarev, head of the Russian parliament\u2019s Commission for the Investigation of Foreign Interference in Russia\u2019s Internal Affairs, said DW was \u201cat the forefront of hostile anti-Russian propaganda\u201d.<\/p>\n

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He added that the \u201cundesirable\u201d label means any form of cooperation with DW from now on would be prosecuted.<\/p>\n

Russia regularly designates entities it says undermine its constitutional order or national security as \u201cundesirable\u201d. The law specifies prison terms of up to five years for funding such activity and six years for organising it.<\/p>\n

The broadcaster<\/a> had already been declared a \u201cforeign agent\u201d, a label used against critics of President Vladimir Putin and Russia\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n

DW Director General Barbara Massing said in a statement that the broadcaster would not be deterred.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis latest attempt to silence free media highlights the Russian regime\u2019s blatant disregard for press freedom and exposes its fear of independent information,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Massing said DW\u2019s Russian-language service, despite censorship and blocking, was reaching a larger audience than ever before.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue to report independently on the war of aggression against Ukraine and other topics about which little information is available in Russia, so that people can form their own opinions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The German government decried the decision. DW quoted government spokesman Stefan Kornelius as saying it demonstrates that \u201cthe Russian leadership fears independent information, especially about the war of aggression against Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s Federal Foreign Office said \u201cfreedom of the press is no longer guaranteed\u201d in Russia, DW reported.<\/p>\n

The broadcaster<\/a> said audiences in Russia could still read and watch its coverage through alternative browsers or VPNs.<\/p>\n

It said that this year, DW\u2019s Russian-language content has reached 10 million weekly viewers, primarily through video content.<\/p>\n

Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, its Justice Ministry has banned dozens of groups critical of the Kremlin or Russia\u2019s conduct in the war.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s declaration came after Germany on Friday accused Russia of a cyberattack targeting its air traffic control system and of spreading disinformation before February\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n

Russia dismissed the claims as \u201cabsurd\u201d and \u201cbaseless\u201d.<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, also suffered a major email outage on Monday, which German officials blamed on a Russian cyberattack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moscow says the label means any form of cooperation with the broadcaster will be prosecuted. Published On 16…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[18319,2000,299,1824,2452,12,332,7661],"class_list":{"0":"post-636491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-censorship","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-media","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-russia-ukraine-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115730633362295044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}