{"id":54488,"date":"2019-12-13T10:51:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T02:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54488"},"modified":"2019-12-13T10:51:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T02:51:38","slug":"russia-expels-2-german-diplomats-in-tit-for-tat-retaliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54488","title":{"rendered":"Russia expels 2 German diplomats in tit-for-tat retaliation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/imagecache\/mbdxxlarge\/mritems\/Images\/2019\/12\/4\/001d502d03f149229d8026eee3e0995c_18.jpg\" alt=\"Policemen stand in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin on March 26, 2018 [Odd Anderson\/AFP]\"\/><figcaption>Russian embassy in Berlin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MOSCOW, Dec 13 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday declared two employees of the German embassy in Russia &#8220;personae non gratae&#8221; and demanded they leave Russia within seven days in retaliation for Germany&#8217;s expulsion of two Russian diplomats earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>German Ambassador to Russia Geza Andreas von Geyr was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry and received a note about the expulsion of the German diplomats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Russian side protested against the &#8220;groundless decision&#8221; of the German Federal Foreign Office on Dec 4 to expel two members of staff at the Russian embassy as &#8220;the Russian authorities have not cooperated sufficiently&#8221; in the investigations into the murder of a Georgian national.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, 40, a Georgian male of Chechen descent, was killed in a Berlin park on Aug 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin denied knowledge of any Russian involvement in the incident, but said that the man was wanted by police for murdering at least 98 people and organizing a terrorist attack in the Moscow metro. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW, Dec 13 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday declared two employees of the German embassy in Russia &#8220;personae non gratae&#8221; and demanded they leave Russia within seven days in retaliation for Germany&#8217;s expulsion of two Russian diplomats earlier this month. German Ambassador to Russia Geza Andreas von Geyr was summoned to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54488"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}