"Soviet Bureaucracy Product": A new German ambassador to the Russian Federation spoke about Putin

According to the German diplomat Alexander Lambsdorf, the current political regime in Russia resembles a period until 1917, when all power belonged to the "autocrat that exercises autocracy". The German diplomat and deputy chairman of the Liberal Free Democratic Party faction in the Bundestag Alexander Lambsdorf was appointed by the new Ambassador of Germany in the Russian Federation.

On Monday, March 27, the politician spoke at the Federal Security Policy Academy and answered the audience questions, Deutsche Welle writes. The publication states that Lambsdorf worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany from the Russian direction in the 1990s and 00s. Even then, the diplomat envisaged the development of Russian foreign policy in a less friendly channel. "After all, the war began not on February 24, 2022.

It all started much earlier than the war in Georgia in 2008, continued with the annexation of Crimea in 2014," Lambsdorf said. According to the German ambassador, Vladimir Putin's speech in the Bundestag in September 2001 was an attempt to separate Europe and North America, which is a continuation of the USSR's foreign policy.

Lambsdorf called the Russian leader a "product of the Soviet bureaucracy" and noted that the current regime in the Russian Federation has a similarity with a period up to 1917. The politician believes that Russia is historically inherent in the state system, in which all power is concentrated in the hands of the "autocrat, which exercises autocracy.

" It should be reminded that, according to the press service of the German Defense Ministry of March 28, Germany has transferred 18 main LEOPARD 2 main combat tanks to Ukraine instead of the planned 14. According to Der Spiegel, March 27, Germany intends to significantly increase financial and military assistance to Ukraine. The expenditures of Germany for "modernization of security and defense and defense countries" increased from 2. 2 billion to 5. 4 billion euros by 2023.