{"id":393921,"date":"2026-09-08T18:47:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393921\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T18:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:47:01","slug":"russia-closes-german-consulate-in-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393921\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia closes German consulate in St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MOSCOW \u2014 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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-germany-goethe-institute-close-airport-drone-1e72ac4fd59f4a1f44859bd2e78dbde6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shut German cultural centers<\/a>\u00a0in the country and said their employees must leave no later than Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ministry said the moves were in 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<p>\tMore articles<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/author\/the-associated-press\" aria-label=\"View posts by The Associated Press\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"176\" height=\"176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AP.webp\" class=\"avatar avatar-176 photo byline__author_image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOSCOW \u2014 Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry on Monday announced the closure of the German consulate in St. Petersburg, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-393921","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393921","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=393921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}