{"id":392917,"date":"2026-09-07T15:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392917\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T15:06:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:06:32","slug":"russia-announces-the-closure-of-the-german-consulate-in-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392917\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia announces the closure of the German consulate in St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"FILE – A woman walks past the German Consulate General building in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 1, 2023. (AP Photo\/Dmitri Lovetsky, File) (Dmitri Lovetsky, Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)<\/p>\n

MOSCOW \u2013 Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry on Monday announced the closure of the German consulate in St. Petersburg, a tit-for-tat move that reflected the simmering tensions between the two countries.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry said the German consulate must stop operations and its workers must leave Russia by Sept. 18. It reaffirmed the previously announced decision to shut German cultural centers<\/a> in the country and said their employees must leave no later than Sunday.<\/p>\n

The ministry said the moves were retaliation for Germany\u2019s \u201cunfriendly\u201d decision Wednesday to close both the Russian consulate in Bonn and the Russian House cultural center in the German capital, Berlin. <\/p>\n

Germany blamed Russia for an attempted drone attack<\/a> at Leipzig\/Halle Airport on Aug. 4, when an explosives-laden drone was found near a Ukrainian plane. <\/p>\n

The airport is a major international freight hub used for providing support to Ukraine. The drone was later defused.<\/p>\n

Moscow has denied involvement.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE – A woman walks past the German Consulate General building in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 1, 2023.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200,10645],"class_list":["post-392917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}