BERLIN, September 3. /TASS/. Germany has ruled out the possibility of transferring employees of the Russian Consulate General in Bonn to the embassy in Berlin, Russia’s Ambassador to Germany Sergey Nechayev said in a message to compatriots living in Germany.
"On September 1, 2026, the Federal Government of the Federal Republic of Germany made the unprecedented decision to close the Russian Consulate General in Bonn by September 18, 2026, and to terminate the 2011 Russian-German intergovernmental agreement on the activities of cultural and information centers. This entails the closure of the Russian House of Science and Culture in Berlin by June 2027. Furthermore, all employees of the Consulate General and the Russian House, as well as their family members, are ordered to leave Germany immediately. The German side has rejected the possibility of transferring them to the embassy," the statement reads. It also notes that the State Duma elections on September 20 cannot be held at the Consulate General in Bonn.
The ambassador recalled that the Consulate General in Bonn was the last of five Russian consulates general operating in Germany. On May 31, 2023, Berlin demanded that Russia close four of its five consulates general in Germany - in Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, and Frankfurt am Main.
