Germany tightens travel advisories to Russia

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting “Traveling to Russia has long been a bad idea, but it now “strongly” advises against it,” the German Foreign Ministry said, according to Stuttgarter Nachrichten newspaper. This also applies to Germans with Russian passports.

According to the German media, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany has intensified its travel recommendations to Russia due to the political situation in this country. German citizens and dual German-Russian citizens are “strongly” advised not to enter the country.

The German Foreign Ministry claimed that this decision The reason for the continued deterioration of the situation is the increasing arbitrary arrests in this country. In this statement, it is claimed that in connection with unauthorized gatherings and demonstrations, extensive and sometimes violent actions by the security forces can occur throughout the country.

The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs has previously advised citizens to avoid traveling to Russia, but the urgent wording is new in this current advice. There has also been a travel warning for the Russian administrative regions of Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk, Voronezh, Rostov and Krasnodar, which border Ukraine, since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine two years ago.

Westerners are of the opinion that especially since the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine, the Russian government has taken harsh measures against critics and opponents in their country. In the past two and a half weeks alone, hundreds of people have been arrested for laying flowers at the memorial of Alexei Navalny, a Russian dissident who recently died in a prison camp. According to Westerners, it is hardly possible to express a free opinion, especially in relation to the war and against the regime, in this country. Russia against the German army has brought new tensions between the two countries.

Nancy Pfizer, the German interior minister, after the scandal of listening to the secret conversation of senior officers of the army air force. announced that it has strengthened the defense against espionage and is constantly reacting to current developments. They discuss the necessary consequences and handling of this issue. In response to this wiretapping scandal, Nancy Pfizer, the Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany, recently emphasized the need for the German intelligence services to be prepared. , four senior officers of the German army, including Ingo Gerharts, the head of the air force, talk about possible scenarios for the deployment of the German Taurus cruise missile if it is delivered to Ukraine.

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