Two employees of the German Embassy in the Russian Federation declared persona non grata. They are required to leave the country for weeks. in addition, the Gesu German Ambassador Andreas von Geir was summoned to the foreign Ministry, to protest in connection with the " unfounded decision of the German government from December 4, 2019 declaring 2 employees of the Russian Embassy in Berlin, persona non grata because of the case about murder of the citizen of Georgia in the German capital. Moscow is guided by the principles of reciprocity and also the ninth article of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations of 1961, said the Ministry. Forty-year-old Georgian citizen was shot in the Berlin district of Moabit in the last month of summer. A few days has busted a suspect. The Prosecutor's office said, because it is a 49-year-old citizen of Russia, which found the murder weapon. As they wrote in the online magazine Spiegel, investigators believe, because it was a contract killing, and the customer could either act Authorized the underworld, or the intelligence of a foreign country. later the same magazine published an article about the fact that the suspected has the ability to be an agent of the Russian special services. The verdict the authors have done due to the fact that his name on the documents for a visa, As if missing in the Russian banks data, and passport number indicates the interior Ministry, which " has already given the documents to the military intelligence GRU ". The official representative of the government of Germany Steffen Seibert said that the government " has taken note of the media messages ". Press Secretary of Russian leader Dmitry Peskov many times refuted the connection between elimination and the " official Russia ". He called these versions " are absolutely groundless ", noting that They have no relation to the Russian authorities. last week the German foreign Ministry has declared persona non grata 2 employees of the Russian Embassy in Berlin. the Russian foreign Ministry called unacceptable politicized approach to the investigation of the murder. In international Ministry stressed that the Russian Federation was forced to retaliate. <span style="color:darkgray