“The Center for European Policy Analysis analyzes our success.
To understand the reasons for our blocking in Germany, no analytical center is needed, ”Simonyan said in her Telegram channel.
According to the related analysis, "by 2010, RT had become the world leader in terms of YouTube views among news broadcasters in English."
"The audience in Germany turned out to be especially fertile ground for Russian influence campaigns, where RT DE managed to reach 4th place in terms of views on YouTube before being blocked, and Sputnik still holds the 8th position," the article on the portal says. Euractiv.
According to the author of the analysis, as a result, the German intelligence community issued a warning regarding the alleged role of RT DE in the elections to the Bundestag, and the German telecommunications regulator denied the channel a broadcast license.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin commented on the possibility of retaliatory measures 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).
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."