
The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in Moscow. File photoMOSCOW, Aug. 30Berlin has been refusing to make payments to Russians who survived the siege of Leningrad for years under far-fetched pretexts, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. World War II — ed.) Berlin should, for years refusing under far-fetched pretexts, to assign payments to citizens of the Russian Federation who survived the blockade of Leningrad without reference to their nationality, by analogy with those paid to living blockade Jews, «says a commentary published on the website of the Foreign Ministry RF.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Berlin encourages distortion of ideas about the beginning of World War II for purely political reasons.» As a result of these actions, the full functioning of the Veteran's Hospital was threatened in the St. Petersburg wars and, most importantly, the health and well-being of his elderly patients. This flagrant and scandalous situation most clearly demonstrates the actual approaches of the German state to the historical responsibility of Germany in the context of the Second World War,» the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized. />The media learned about the proposals of France and Germany to issue visas to Russians

