Contents tagged with Khangoshvili
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German MPs call on Merkel to abandon Nord Stream 2 over Russia-linked contract killing in Berlin
German Chancellor Angela Merkel should withdraw her support for the Nord Stream-2 project over the murder in Berlin of Georgian citizen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, which was allegedly carried out by Russia, writes the newspaper Bild, citing deputy head of the Free Democratic Party of Germany Alexander Graf Lambsdorff.
The MP said the killing in Berlin "a couple of hundred meters from government buildings" was a sharp blow to German sovereignty and Berlin should "think three times before laying a …
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Germany accuses Russian government of a contract killing in Berlin
The Office of the German Federal Public Prosecutor (Generalbundesanwaltschaft, GBA) has accused the Russian government of the contact killing of former Chechen military commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, Deutsche Welle reported.
According to the investigation, the accused Vadim K. (a.k.a. Vadim S.). was ordered by the agencies subordinate to the Kremlin to "eliminate" Khangoshvili.
"The victim's hostile relationship with the Russian state, with the governments of the autonomous republics of …