BERLIN, September 10. /TASS/. The decision to close the German Consulate General in St. Petersburg and Goethe-Institut branches in Russia came as a tit-for-tat response to Berlin’s unfriendly steps to undermine Russian-German relations, the Russian Embassy in Germany said in a statement.
"Laments by certain German officials, politicians, public figures and the media about the upcoming closure of the German Consulate General in St. Petersburg and Goethe-Institut branches in Russia are met with surprise. Being fully aware that Russia’s actions are nothing but a mirror response to Berlin’s unprecedented, unprovoked measures aimed at dismantling Russian-German relations, they still continue to describe the situation as 'glaring injustice,'" the embassy said.
The embassy recalled that "the closures of Russia’s Consulate General in Bonn, the country’s largest consular mission abroad, and of the Russian House of Science and Culture in Berlin, the world’s largest Russian House, were triggered by allegations of Russian involvement in the incident involving a malfunctioning drone that was discovered at Leipzig on the night of August 5, 2026."
"There has been no evidence and no arguments, only the familiar ‘highly likely’ rhetoric and an unprecedentedly disproportionate reaction, which other EU countries obediently joined at Berlin’s signal," the statement reads.
