Angelina Timofeeva. The downturn in economic relations - a bad sign for Russia and Germany, said on Sunday the Russian correspondents, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation Mikhail Shvydkoy, who came to the opening of the 13th German-Russian conference of sister cities. "The slowdown in economic relationships is a bad sign not only for the Russian Federation, and Germany. Cannot all be reduced only to the Ukrainian problem, and it can not affect the development of Russian-German relations ", - said Shvydkoi. He added that the inter-municipal level is the level that gives you the opportunity to a greater extent depoliticized to do real things." crystal clear that a number of cities have already felt the benefit of in-depth contacts with the German economy. Suffice to say that the Moscow, Kaluga, relations of St. Petersburg and Hamburg, " - said the representative of the President. "I think that today intermunicipal relations between Russia and Germany in the highest degree important, most, given that they contain more than 1000 years ", - said Shvydkoi, noting that " we must understand that relations between Russia and Germany had different times ".