{"id":394359,"date":"2026-09-09T03:15:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T03:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394359\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T03:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T03:15:29","slug":"russia-closes-german-consulate-in-st-petersburg-after-drone-spat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394359\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Closes German Consulate in St Petersburg After Drone Spat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW, Sept 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Russia \u2060said \u2060on Monday \u2060it was closing down the \u200bGerman Consulate-General in St. Petersburg in \u200cretaliation for Berlin&#8217;s \u200cdecision to close\u00a0the Russian \u2060consulate \u2060in Bonn and a Russian cultural centre in \u200bBerlin.<\/p>\n<p>Germany took its own measures after\u00a0accusing Moscow of an attempted drone \u200battack at Leipzig\/Halle Airport, an allegation \u2060Russia called \u2060an absurd fabrication.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060Russian \u200bForeign Ministry said in a statement that \u200bthe German \u2060consulate in St. Petersburg must cease operations no later than September 18.<\/p>\n<p>It also confirmed that \u2060Germany&#8217;s\u00a0Goethe-Institut cultural centres in Russia must cease their \u2060activities, with staff ordered to leave the country by September 13 at the latest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was the German authorities who, once again, provoked a new round of escalation in bilateral relations. \u2060The German government bears full and complete responsibility for the consequences,&#8221; Russia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by \u200bMarina BobrovaWriting by Maxim RodionovEditing \u200bby Andrew Osborn )<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The Month in Photos: Sept. 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/september-04-pyss-z01.jpg\" alt=\"Scientists test newly developed spacesuits at the LUNA analog facility in preparation of future human and robotic missions to the moon, simulating the lunar surface for astronauts and robotic systems for the European Space Agency at the German Aerospace Center near Cologne, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. (AP Photo\/Martin Meissner)\" class=\"Image__PictureImage-sc-412cjc-1 bBgODV Image-sc-412cjc-2 SlideshowEmbed__Picture-fkpjfn-0 kQDDcT bUlaJL\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOSCOW, Sept 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Russia \u2060said \u2060on Monday \u2060it was closing down the \u200bGerman Consulate-General in St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[141629,15298,24281,21408,51076,5767,202,204,203,199,201,200,21553,10645],"class_list":["post-394359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-collections-world","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-germany","tag-reuters","tag-russia","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-ukraine","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394359","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=394359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}