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Jamal Musiala (l) in the game between Arminia Bielefeld and Bayern Munich
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Because of messages against the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, the Russian broadcaster Match TV has again prematurely canceled the broadcast of a Bundesliga game.
During the game between Arminia Bielefeld and FC Bayern Munich on Sunday, among other things, "Stop war, Putin" was written on an advertising board in the arena.
That's why the Match TV broadcaster switched off its live broadcast after a good 30 minutes when the score was 1-0 for Bayern, as reported by the "sport.ru" portal, among others.
This was already the case on April 2 in the duel between Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig, when Match TV stopped the transmission before the end of the first half because of pro-Ukrainian and anti-Russian messages in the stadium.
In both cases, the justification was that sport and politics should be separated, as Russian and Ukrainian media reported.
Unlike the French Ligue 1 and the English Premier League, the Bundesliga is still broadcast in Russia.
The German Football League decided at the beginning of March to continue its contract with the Russian media company Match TV for the time being and to donate the proceeds to humanitarian aid in Ukraine.
An extraordinary termination of the contract was initially waived so that the anti-war calls and peace appeals from the German stadiums could continue to reach the Russian population, it said.
Despite the termination of the transmission of the Dortmund game, the DFL initially continued the contract.
"The DFL is currently continuing to rely on the possibility of reaching people in Russia with messages of peace from the stadiums," said the DFL at the beginning of April in response to a dpa request.
At the same time, one observes »of course exactly whether and to what extent this possibility is still available«.
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