After Baerbock's exclamation mark: Putin's government draws consequences that affect Germany
Created: 12/23/2021, 09:42 AM
A Berlin court accuses Russia of state terrorism, and Germany expels two diplomats.
Putin's government reacted - also by stopping gas deliveries?
Update from December 22nd, 10:45 a.m.:
On Tuesday, Russia again stopped the delivery of natural gas via the Russian-European Yamal-Europe pipeline. As on nine days at the beginning of November, gas has been pumped in the opposite direction to Poland at the Mallnow (Brandenburg) compressor station since the morning. The delivery volume had already been significantly reduced in the three days before, according to data published on the Internet by the gas network operator Gascade.
The Kremlin in Moscow described the move as an economic decision, not a political one.
There is also no connection with the filling of the second line of the controversial Baltic Sea pipeline Nord Stream 2, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov of the Interfax agency.
Gazprom only announced that gas would be delivered according to demand and the contracts concluded.
Details were initially not given.
Russia again stops gas delivery via the Yamal pipeline
Annalena Baerbock and Vladimir Putin © OLIVIER DOULIERY / ITAR-TASS / AFP / Imago
The question is whether there is really a purely economic decision behind it. The
picture
quotes two experts who also
see
a connection to the verdict of the so-called Tiergarten murder
(see first report)
. Sergej Sumlenny, head of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Kiev from 2015-2021, said: "It is clear that Putin was angry after the verdict - the choice of words of the Russian Foreign Ministry shows that." liked. "According to Putin, something like this should not be tolerated and must therefore be punished immediately."
According to the report, Slawomir Debski from the “Polish Institute for International Affairs” does not believe in coincidence either.
The reduction is "a Russian tactic to put pressure on Europe".
“They want to let us know that we are dependent on them.
Especially when critical decisions are pending or you are dissatisfied with our policy ”.
A Gazprom spokesman disagreed
on
Bild's
request.
After Baerbock's exclamation mark: Putin's government draws consequences that affect Germany
First report from December 20:
Moscow / Berlin - The atmosphere between Germany and Russia remains frosty on the diplomatic floor.
Moscow has now responded to the deportation of two Russian embassy employees in Berlin with a return coach.
The concrete stumbling block is currently the so-called Tiergarten murder and the following process in the German capital.
After the verdict last Wednesday, Russia has now declared two German diplomats to be "undesirable people".
This was announced by the Foreign Ministry on Monday in Moscow after a conversation with Ambassador Géza Andreas von Geyr.
The Ministry in Moscow had previously criticized the Berlin judgment as politically motivated.
The Foreign Office in Berlin criticized the decision.
"This step does not come as a surprise, but from the point of view of the federal government it is completely unfounded," said a press release.
Baerbock took action: two diplomats expelled - Russia replies to "unfriendly act"
Because of the shooting of a Georgian in August 2019 in the Kleiner Tiergarten park, the Berlin Court of Appeal had sentenced a Russian to life imprisonment last Wednesday.
The verdict speaks of “state terrorism”: the judges are convinced that the now 56-year-old acted on behalf of Russian state agencies.
Russia rejects such allegations.
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock at the meeting of the “Stockholm Initiative” on nuclear disarmament.
© Michael Kappeler / dpa
As a consequence, the federal government declared two employees of the Russian embassy in Berlin to be "undesirable persons".
This was tantamount to expulsion.
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) * saw a "serious violation of German law and the sovereignty of the Federal Republic of Germany".
The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Sakharova, then spoke of "unfriendly actions by Berlin" that could not go unanswered.
Russia: Crimea, cyber attack, Navalny - relations with Germany have been strained for years
The federal government had expelled two employees of the Russian embassy during the investigation into the "zoo murder" and justified this with a lack of willingness to cooperate on the part of Russian authorities.
Moscow responded by expelling two German diplomats.
German-Russian relations have deteriorated steadily since Russia took over the Ukrainian Crimea in 2014.
This was due, among other things, to the largest cyber attack to date on the Bundestag in 2015, for which Russian hackers are blamed, the poisoning of the Kremlin critic Alexej Navalny * and, most recently, the Russian troop deployment on the border with Ukraine *.
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dpa / fn
) *
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