“All the ups and downs associated with the ban on Russia Today's activities in Germany are a projection of what is happening with Nord Stream 2,” he said.

Gazenko claims that the German media complex has long been under "direct or indirect control of American capital" and "the conductors of it are the very greens who began to lose their rating in the summer."

“The Germans understood that they would have a hard time without Russian gas.

And suddenly the unexpected growth of the green - the source of objective information was gone.

RT was kicked out of this process, ”the publicist said.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin commented on the possibility of retaliation against the removal of two German RT channels on YouTube - RT DE and Der Fehlende Part (DFP).

On September 28, the head of RT DE and Ruptly announced that YouTube has deleted without the right to restore two German RT channels - RT DE and Der Fehlende Part (DFP). 

RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan, commenting on the deletion of the channels, noted that this is "a real media war declared by the state of Germany to the state of Russia."