Airline companies said flights between Germany
and Russia had resumed Wednesday evening, after each country blocked the
other's incoming flights as part of the fall-out from tensions over Belarus.
German airline Lufthansa said it delayed the departure of a flight from Minsk to Frankfurt on Monday after it received a
"security warning", one day after a forced landing over Belarus.
A group of ten Belarusians has filed a criminal complaint in Germany against President Alexander Lukashenko and members of his
regime for crimes against humanity, lawyers representing them said Wednesday.
Germany will summon the Belarus ambassador after Minsk revoked accreditations of foreign media reporters covering the country's anti-government protests, a government source said on Sunday.
A largely second string Bayern Munich comfortably secured top spot in Group F of the Champions League with a 4-1 victory at home to BATE Borisov in a match which ended with both teams a man down, on Wednesday.
German police officers trained security forces in Belarus at the same time as the German foreign minister condemned militia crackdowns in what has been called Europe's last dictatorship, a newspaper reported.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that it was “better to be a dictator than gay,” in reference to German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, after his human rights record was questioned.
Belarus on Friday accused EU members Germany and Poland of seeking to topple its strongman President Alexander Lukashenko by organising the December mass protest against his re-election.
Germany has condemned Belarus's decision to order the closure of the OSCE's office in Minsk, saying the move was another step backwards for democratic rights in the ex-Soviet republic.
Germany said Wednesday it had summoned Minsk's ambassador to express its concerns over a brutal crackdown of post-election protests, as Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle warned that Belarus faced "isolation."
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on Monday slammed the crackdown on protests against the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus as "unacceptable."
A German helicopter crashed Sunday outside the Belarusian capital Minsk during an aerobatics show, killing its pilot, a spokesman for the emergency situations ministry said.
