The Russians took this step after Berlin accused Moscow of attempting an attack at Leipzig and Halle airports last month and announced the closure of the Russian consulate in Bonn and the so-called Russian House cultural center in the German capital.
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S. Lavrov stated that cultural centers belonging to Germany’s Goethe Institute in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Yekaterinburg will be closed, adding that any other response would signify a lack of Russia’s “self-respect.”
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Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, S. Lavrov declared that Germany “could not fail to understand” that the closure of the Russian House “will mean the end of its cultural presence in Russia.”
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