Two employees of the Russian Embassy in Berlin must leave the country within 7 days.
On Wednesday, December 15, the Federal Government recognized two employees of the Russian Embassy in Germany as “undesirable persons.”/p>
According to the minister, this was announced today to Russian Ambassador Sergei Nechaev during a conversation at the Foreign Ministry. The two Russian diplomats must leave Germany within seven days.
The announcement of the Russians persona non grata happened on the same day that the Supreme Regional Court of Berlin found Russian Vadim “Sokolov” -Krasikov guilty of the murder of former Chechen field commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili.
Russian Ambassador Nechaev has already called this verdict “politically motivated” and noted that it would complicate the already “uneasy German-Russian relations.” “This is clearly an unfriendly act that will not go unanswered,” he said.
Recall that earlier Germany ruled out the start of operation of the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline until its certification was completed.
