Germany's military put a first Iris-T air-defence system into service on its own soil on Wednesday having delivered several of them to war-torn Ukraine to intercept Russian rockets, drones and missiles.
Denmark's military on Tuesday released video footage showing gas bubbling on the surface of parts of the Baltic sea caused by leaks from the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
From shop fronts spattered with paint to insults thrown in the street, attacks on the Russian community in Germany have spiked since the start of the war in Ukraine.Â
Germany's former chancellor Gerhard Schröder reportedly met Vladimir Putin on Thursday in Moscow in a bid to get the Russian leader to end his invasion of Ukraine.Â
Germany has rejected a complete ban on Russian gas and oil imports over Russia invading Ukraine, but voices are growing louder for Berlin to ditch its economic imperative to take a moral stand.Â
Germany said on Saturday it would build a liquefied natural gas terminal on its North Sea coast, as it seeks to reduce its reliance on Russian gas imports after the invasion of Ukraine.
German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF on Saturday stopped their reporting from Russia after Moscow backed the
imposition of jail terms on media publishing "false information" about the military.
German police arrested a Russian scientist working at an unidentified university, accusing him of spying for Moscow, prosecutors said on Monday, in a case that risks further inflaming bilateral tensions.
The German government said Friday that it would be open to using the Russian-made Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine once it
had been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Germany is expecting to be the target of Russian disinformation in the run-up to elections this year, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Friday, calling such practices "completely unacceptable".
The head of Germany’s vaccine agency has praised Russia’s Sputnik V inoculation against coronavirus, saying he expects it to be approved in Europe.
German prosecutors said Thursday they have filed spying charges against a German man suspected of passing on data from parliament to Russian secret services.
Sweden, Germany and Poland each threw out a Russian diplomat in a retaliatory move after Russia expelled their envoys for allegedly taking part in protests supporting Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
Germany has become an unlikely
champion of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, offering support and possible
production sites in the hopes of speeding up the European Union's troubled
inoculation drive.
Work looks set to resume on the controversial NordStream 2 pipeline that will bring Russian gas to Germany despite a fresh protest from the United States on Saturday.
Russia on Friday accused Germany of refusing to cooperate with it to establish the cause of of opposition leader Alexei Navalny's illness as he continues to recover in Berlin.
Russia's leading opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who the West believes was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent, has been discharged from hospital after just over a month, the Berlin medical facility treating him said Wednesday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced mounting
pressure Thursday to toughen her ambivalent stance toward Russia following her
announcement that Berlin has "unequivocal" proof that Russian opposition
leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a deadly nerve agent.
Tests carried out on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny showed that he was poisoned by a Novichok chemical nerve agent, the German government said Wednesday, demanding explanations from Moscow.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is in a stable condition after arriving in Berlin by air ambulance on Saturday following a suspected poisoning, the German NGO that chartered the flight told AFP.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced frustration Wednesday that Russia was targeting her in hacking action, saying
she had concrete proof of the "outrageous" spying attempts.
The US sanctions slapped on a controversial Russian gas pipeline to Europe will likely delay the project by several months but it will still be completed next year, a top German official said Monday
