MOSCOW: Moscow summoned German ambassador Alexander Graf Lambsdorff on Friday to protest Berlin’s “persecution” of Russian journalists, Russian state media reported. The row began after Russia’s top media official in Berlin accused German police of confiscating his family’s passports, prompting Moscow to warn of retaliation. “The German ambassador was summoned to the Russian foreign ministry today,” the ministry said, according to the state RIA news agency. Relations between Moscow and Berlin have broken down since Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022.

The goal is to inform Alexander Lambsdorff of retaliatory measures in response to the persecution of Russian journalists

MOSCOW: Moscow summoned German ambassador Alexander Graf Lambsdorff on Friday to protest Berlin’s “persecution” of Russian journalists, Russian state media reported. The row began…

Earlier, the Foreign Ministry stated that it would present Alexander Lambsdorff with Moscow’s official response to the harassment of Russian journalists in Germany

According to the statement, "Berlin's continued practice of systematic harassment of Russian journalists in Germany and attempts to limit their professional activities under…