Correspondent for Deutsche Welle (German media company recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign media agent) Alexandra von Namen, who asked the question to the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov, covered Russia and the politics of Vladimir Putin for five years as the chief of the bureau in Moscow, the company’s website says.
< p>Von Namen is said to be “one of the most experienced correspondents” of the publication and heads the Deutsche Welle office in Brussels.
Lavrov, answering the journalist’s question, said that she had quoted him inaccurately and pointed out that In Germany, members of the government are accustomed to telling journalists what they should write to.