Geza Andreas von Geyr, German Ambassador to Moscow, applied to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a request to help German journalists work in Russia. This was announced by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, in the broadcast of the TV channel. “Solovyev Live”.
According to Zakharova, the ambassador asked “to give them (journalists) visas, accreditation, as before, not ask any procedural questions, but do it all on a long-term basis”.
The Russian diplomat said he was surprised at the combination of such conditions, as, according to him, no country in Germany has experienced such harassment by the Russian media and journalists.
Zakharova explained that von Geyr’s request was against the background of the article “Women for Putin” published in the German edition of Spiegel. After the publication of this publication, the representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a post-criticism in his own newspaper. telegraph channel. He stressed that the article was full of “sexist stereotypes”.