Germany expels 2 Russian diplomats over murder

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 16 Dec 2021 by Alex Teddy
On December 14 Berlin said the two were involved in the murder of a Chechen commander who was killed in 2019. Germany says that the Chechen was killed by order of the Russian government. Russian national Vadim Krasikov was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder.The Kremlin denounced the trial as politicized and anti-Russian. Moscow affirmed that the verdict has harmed relations.The new German Chancellor Scholz has vowed to stand up to Russia. When Merkel was chancellor she expelled two Russian diplomats because Russia was not assisting in the investigation.It is likely that Russia will expel two German diplomats. Zemilkhan Kangoshvili was the man shot dead by a pistol with a silencer in Berlin in 2019. He was a Georgian citizen whom Putin had branded ''bloody and cruel.". Russia has sought his extradition.The killer was arrested minutes later. German prosecutors said he is in the FSB (internal Russian intelligence agency). The killer used a false identity supplied to him by the Russian government and arrived in Germany the day before the killing. The new German government has said it will not allow Nord Stream 2 to function if Russia escalates the conflict in Ukraine.

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