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https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/kontraste/petersburger-dialog-100.html
Officially, the German-Russian "Petersburg Dialogue" has been considered over for years, but apparently high-ranking Kremlin representatives are continuing talks with influential Germans from politics and society.
Next Sunday, October 20, a group of influential Russians and Germans are scheduled to meet at 6:30 p.m. in the lobby of the 5-star Four Seasons Hotel in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. They are meeting for dinner together. The following day, talks on German-Russian cooperation are scheduled. At least that is what a Russian program dated early October says, which is provided with the official logo of the "Petersburg Dialogue" and which the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and the ARD political magazine Kontraste were able to evaluate.
The meeting would be politically explosive, as it would undermine the official foreign policy of the Federal Republic, which aims at the political isolation of Russia. None of the non-Russian participants listed in the program confirmed to Zeit and Kontraste their planned participation in the meeting. One clearly denies it when asked, some do not answer at all, others answer evasively.
Petersburg Dialogue Officially Dissolved
The "Petersburg Dialogue" was launched in 2001 by then-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Russian President Vladimir Putin and was intended to bring German and Russian civil society closer together. After Russia declared organizations involved in the dialogue "undesirable" in 2021, the dialogue was officially discontinued by the German side. After the attack on Ukraine in February 2022, the Germans also dissolved the associated association structures.
https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/kontraste/petersburger-dialog-100.html
Officially, the German-Russian "Petersburg Dialogue" has been considered over for years, but apparently high-ranking Kremlin representatives are continuing talks with influential Germans from politics and society.
Next Sunday, October 20, a group of influential Russians and Germans are scheduled to meet at 6:30 p.m. in the lobby of the 5-star Four Seasons Hotel in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. They are meeting for dinner together. The following day, talks on German-Russian cooperation are scheduled. At least that is what a Russian program dated early October says, which is provided with the official logo of the "Petersburg Dialogue" and which the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and the ARD political magazine Kontraste were able to evaluate.
The meeting would be politically explosive, as it would undermine the official foreign policy of the Federal Republic, which aims at the political isolation of Russia. None of the non-Russian participants listed in the program confirmed to Zeit and Kontraste their planned participation in the meeting. One clearly denies it when asked, some do not answer at all, others answer evasively.
Petersburg Dialogue Officially Dissolved
The "Petersburg Dialogue" was launched in 2001 by then-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Russian President Vladimir Putin and was intended to bring German and Russian civil society closer together. After Russia declared organizations involved in the dialogue "undesirable" in 2021, the dialogue was officially discontinued by the German side. After the attack on Ukraine in February 2022, the Germans also dissolved the associated association structures.
