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Employees of the correspondent office of the German TV channel Deutsche Welle (DW) in Russia must surrender their accreditations, recalled at the briefing Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
According to her, the deadline for submitting accreditation certificates is before the end of the day, February 4.
The day before, the head of the Moscow office of DW, Yuri Resheto, said that at the correspondent office of the German TV channel in Moscow, they received an order from the Russian authorities to ban activities and the need to surrender accreditation. The DW Bureau was ordered to close by 9:00 am on February 4th.
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