Hundreds of German civil servants have to leave Russia – politics
Hundreds of German civil servants have to leave Russia, including diplomats, teachers and employees of the Goethe Institute. But that should not be the end of the escalation.
From
Paul Anton Krueger and Georg Mascolo, Berlin
Moscow Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova indulged in dark insinuations in April after being urged by the Foreign Office a double-digit number of Russian diplomats had left the country in a government plane. The “entire range of Russian-German relations” will be “defiantly destroyed”. Russia as a reaction to “Berlin’s hostile actions”, the upper limit for employees in German diplomatic missions in Russia will be significantly reduced.
